[cloudmountain]

The battle would be Turkish tanks vs Russian Air.
Turkey does not have the air power to defend those tanks from the Russian Air Force.

Maybe you're right but then, the Turks might buy air power from the USA, Chinese...or even from the Russians. The Russians would sell to ANYONE.

News WAS that many of the Russian planes are outdated and not well maintained. But, that may just be sour grapes from others.

[Mariner]

Russia has produced and deployed more modern fighters in the last 5 years than Turkey has in their entire inventory.

Overall, it's over 2,000 fighters vs 248 F-16s.

Yeah, they're Block 50's, but they could be all downed in 2 days.

If they even managed to get off the ground.

Then, out comes the Russian tank killers...unopposed.