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Syria Gets a Major Boost With Russian T-90 TOW Killer Tanks
liveLeak ^ | Dec 12, 2015 | unknown

Posted on 12/12/2015 6:14:38 AM PST by PIF

Defenses on these machines can counter US-made TOW missiles

The Fourth Division of the Syrian army has been equipped with at least 6 modern T-90MS Tagil tanks, provided by the Russian Federation. Their function is to help the Syrian Arab Army advance in the southern province of Aleppo. ...

The T-90MS and its outstanding capability to destroy incoming TOW and M79 missiles appears to be perfect for a theater of war like the one in Syria. In 4 and a half years of conflict, more than 9,000 BGM-71E3B TOW and M79 anti-tank systems have been introduced in the country. Their capability to easily penetrate T-55 and T-72 tanks is the main reason why the Syrian Arab Army has had so many problems gaining ground in the southern province of Aleppo.

(Excerpt) Read more at liveleak.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: fsbputin; kgbputin; putinista; putinstrolls; sovietunion2; syria; t90
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1 posted on 12/12/2015 6:14:38 AM PST by PIF
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To: PIF

Just wait until the Russians gives TOWs to the Kurds to blow up Turk tanks...


2 posted on 12/12/2015 6:25:48 AM PST by 2banana
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To: PIF

IED will flip it like a pancake....


3 posted on 12/12/2015 6:29:55 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: PIF

I thought ISIS was hours from annihilation, I thought ISIS shaved their beards and ran away, looks like Iran’s drawing back and Putin the Pedophile doesn’t know what to do.


4 posted on 12/12/2015 6:34:17 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: PIF

I love the idea of “reactive armor.”


5 posted on 12/12/2015 6:35:43 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: PIF

From that angle the turret looks like it’s about 3 feet tall.How does the crew function in that space?


6 posted on 12/12/2015 6:36:34 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: BeadCounter

“Pedophile?”


7 posted on 12/12/2015 6:36:36 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/04/poisoned-ex-kgb-agent-accused-vladimir-putin-of-being-a-pedophile/

In the Daily Mail and other too.


8 posted on 12/12/2015 6:41:54 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: PIF
My, my how and from whom did ISIS get all those TOW missile systems??? Could it have been Obola??
9 posted on 12/12/2015 6:47:15 AM PST by libstripper
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To: libstripper

We have been supplying the jihadis with TOW missiles.
McCain, Grahamnesty and Rubio joined Obama in thinking that was a good idea.


10 posted on 12/12/2015 6:49:12 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Islamophobia? It is not irrational to fear evil)
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To: Farmer Dean

The turret basket extends down into the hull.


11 posted on 12/12/2015 6:52:13 AM PST by lacrew
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To: libstripper

9,000 missiles at 180k each...and suddenly we can’t afford to buy bombs to use against ISIS.


12 posted on 12/12/2015 6:55:36 AM PST by lacrew
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All turret baskets extend into the hull.The Russians must have moved a lot of gear that normally is in the turret to some other place in the hull.I would think that the main gun barrel would have very limited depression with that turret design.


13 posted on 12/12/2015 6:57:55 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: PIF
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"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor"

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131219/185734707/Putin-Says-Stalin-No-Worse-Than-Cunning-Oliver-Cromwell.html
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...

"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."

"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.

If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11102.30640.0.0/asia/moscow-puts-the-soviet-squeeze-on-neighbor-nations
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism's crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.

"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor"

14 posted on 12/12/2015 7:11:31 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: PIF
I thought the M79 was a Vietnam era grenade launcher.


15 posted on 12/12/2015 7:14:29 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: PIF
"RT [Russia Today] has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government[10][11][12] and its foreign policy[10][11][13][14] by former Russian officials[15] and by news reporters,[16] including former RT reporters.[17][18][19]

It has also been accused of spreading disinformation.[20][21][22]

The United Kingdom media regulator Ofcom has threatened RT with sanctions because of repeated violations of its rules on impartiality.[23]

The network states that it offers a 'Russian perspective' on global events.[24]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29
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Nov 2015...

Vladimir Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel was 'murdered for being an FBI informant'


16 posted on 12/12/2015 7:14:53 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: PIF

Well, they shouldn’t be shooting at M1s anyway.

Of course I don’t know what the IDF uses.


17 posted on 12/12/2015 7:20:10 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: ETL

Blah blah ...


18 posted on 12/12/2015 7:40:03 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF
Love that passive voice:

In 4 and a half years of conflict, more than 9,000 BGM-71E3B TOW and M79 anti-tank systems have been introduced in the country.

How did they get "introduced" in the country? In the last 4.5 years?

19 posted on 12/12/2015 8:01:39 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: PIF

Up yours, Putinista.


20 posted on 12/12/2015 8:09:15 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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