Turkey Moving 1000 Vehicles Including Leopard 2A4 Tanks From 1St Army To Syrian Border

ProNews ^ | November 28, 2015

[Strategy]

Translation:

"Endless battalions of tanks, APCs and Firtina self-propelled howitzers are being transferred from the region of Evros and the Zone of Responsibility of the 1st Army to the borders with Syria and there is information to suggest movement of Leo2A4 tanks with 120mm guns and much greater survivability against the Russian T-90 than the upgraded M60T SABRA.

The tanks are being moved from the western provinces of Turkey and joined the 5th Armoured Brigade based in Gaziantep.

Turkish tanks are transported by all means. Some arrive by train, others by tank carriers.

Overall, more than 1,000 battle tanks, artillery, APCs and self-propelled rocket launchers were moved from Eastern Thrace in the direction of Syria.

The Turkish 1st Army comprises four Armored Brigades, 7 Mechanized Infantry Brigades and two Infantry Divisions. The proportion of Greek and Turkish tanks in the Evros region is 1: 1.9.

However the Turkish armoured and mechanised Brigades are formations of four or five manoeuvring until, deploying a total of about 28 squadrons of tanks, while under the 5th Army Corps also falls an independent reconaissance squadron.

[Vermont Lt]

At least in my opinion, that is exactly what Obama should do. We have no dog in this fight. Turkey shot first. There is no Chapter 5 attack here.

[Vermont Lt]

And if the Turks get to the Golan, I wonder if their fire discipline will be a slight bit better.

[CodeToad]

The closer to Syria the less gas Russia has to expend to get to them to destroy them.

[amorphous]

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[pierrem15]

It's Russia that's out on a limb here-- they can barely support the logistics tail they have and the Turks can close the Bosporus to Russian ships at any time.

Short of nuking them, there's not much the Russians can do in this situation.

[pierrem15]

Yes- that’s the big unknown here, although Russia’s options are not very good in this theater of operations.

[pierrem15]

Ha ha— sometimes war comes to you even if you’re not looking for it. In fact, especially if you’re not looking for it.

[pierrem15]

“Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tigers.” :-)

[Tallguy]

This is “Guns of August” level stupidity.

[Dawggie]

The Russian logistics train is in a sorry state for their present disposition, so the Turks move material from eastern Thrace. Am I missing something here?

[McGruff]

Looks like Turkey is back on the menu boys.

[Nuc 1.1]

Why would he not support Turkey? 0 is a muslim marxist.

[RipSawyer]

Will Istanbul get the works?

[pierrem15]

The Turks are repositioning military assets from the Greek and Bulgarian borders (traditional areas of hostilities and possible sources of attack in the past) to the Syrian border.

This means the Turks are not going to roll over for any more Russian provocations, and may in fact occupy parts of Syria themselves.

[minnesota_bound]

#10 Istanbul Not Constantinople -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg

[grey_whiskers]

Gonad-er.