Turkey dubs Syria 'a clear threat', vows to retaliate

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[sinsofsolarempirefan]

“Everyone else, from the Crusaders in the holy land, to the Brits at Galipoli, and the Chinese at Kumyangjang-Ni have found them tough customers. “

Although the Turks proved impossible to dislodge from the heights of Gallipoli during WWI, they got buttraped every where else...

[expat2]

A long drawn-out tie would be best, I think.

[popdonnelly]

If a fighter plane wanders into Syrian airspace, you might expect it to get shot down. The Turkish government is just looking for an excuse to intervene.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

This one bears watching!

[Chode]

no matter what we do, it'll prolly be wrong...

[HiJinx]

Have to chuckle at your ping list, ASA Vet.

The book Alas Babylon! used an inadvertant missile launch on the Syrians to lead up to nuclear hostilities between us and Soviets.

I don't reckon that will happen now, but it will be interesting to see how things shake out in the coming months. Or weeks?

[gandalftb]

Bingo!

[ASA Vet]

Зенитная Самоходная Установка.
Zenitny Samochodnaya Ustenovka (ZSU)

Шилка shilka

ZSU-23-4

The effective vertical range is 1.5 km (0.93 mi) at a direct range to target of 2.5 km (1.6 mi) and target speed of 250 m/s (up to 500 m/s if a modern fire control system is used.)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Certainly not Syria. But recently Turkey has been headed down the road to become another Jihadistan.

[Ax]

The Cuban Air Defense forces use the SHILKA. Whenever there was a flap, such as flotillas from Miami heading to the island to spread propaganda, the DAAFAR (Defensa Anti-Aerea Artilleria de Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias) would roll their SHILKAS to the beach on my street. I would lace up my running shoes and jog by units to try and get some unit markings. The soldier in the turret would wave his AK-47 in the air and yell at me to stay away.

The Cuban Ministry of Defense is organized along Soviet lines. The Air Defense forces are a separate component.

[1010RD]

Correct, this is a long game of Mediterranean regional powers: Egypt v. Turkey v. Iran/Iraq v. Saudi Arabia. Each is desperate to be the next Caliphate and run worldwide Islam.

They’re deluded, but it goes with the territory/culture.

[rmlew]

Islamist AKP/Gullen Turkey is helping rebels in Syria and is violating its airspace. It is a threat to Turkey.
All of the parties involved are evil. However, WMDs in the hand of Syria run by the Arab Revival Socialist (Ba'ath) Party are safer than in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. A nuclear Iran is a threat. Syria is weak. And as long as Sunni Islamists are fighting Ba'athists and Iranian special forces, the better. Let them slaughter each other. Hama Rules apply.

[justa-hairyape]

The Turkish population could be devastated if Syria decides to use and deploy its vast Chemical and Biological WMD. Turkey has signed on to the nonproliferation treaty and has no Chemical or Biological WMD. There are US nukes residing in Turkey, but they are under Obama’s control.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gandalftb.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sub-Driver.

[gandalftb]

Правильно, сирийцы купили 400 из них.

[ASA Vet]

Кто платит?

[Crucial]

Is Obama playing with the powder keg again?

[Crucial]

I hate to be melodramatic but if this planet sees its end due to the violent morons in the Middle East, it can be said that it was brought about by Barack Obama.

[catfish1957]

Let them beat each other to bloody hell. Keeps them distracted from messing with Israel.

Kind of like all those Iraq - Iran wars we used to see in the '70's and '80's.