Posted on 07/24/2021 7:55:21 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Here's What You Need to Remember: When Moscow intervened in Syria in 2015 on behalf the beleaguered regime of Bashar al-Assad, it also transferred around thirty T-90As to the Syrian Arab Army, as well as upgraded T-62Ms and T-72s. The Syrian military could desperately use this armored infusion, as it had lost over two thousand armored vehicles in the preceding years—especially after Syrian rebels began receiving American TOW-2A missiles in 2014.
The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle East today have amounted to a dreadful human catastrophe with spiraling global consequence. One of their lesser effects has been to deflate the reputations of Western main battle tanks mistakenly thought to be night-invulnerable in the popular imagination.
Iraqi M1 Abrams tanks not only failed to prevent he capture of Mosul in 2014, but they were captured and turned against their owners. In Yemen, numerous Saudi M1s were knocked out by Houthi rebels. Turkey, which had lost a number of M60 Pattons and upgrade M60T Sabra tanks to Kurdish and ISIS fighters eventually deployed its fearsome German-built Leopard 2A4 tanks. ISIS destroyed eight to ten in a matter of days.
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” Syrian rebels began receiving American TOW-2A missiles in 2014.”
Meanwhile red blooded Law abiding Americans can’t even get TOW-2A missiles.
What a rip off.
One of my favorite G. Gordon Liddy descriptions was soldiers in the middle east “trying to find reverse in a Soviet tank”.
Tanks are obsolete.
Piloted aircraft are on the verge.
Drones and cell phone apps are where warfare is heading.
....the real lesson to be drawn was less about technical deficiencies and more about crew training, competent morale, and sound tactical employment matter more even than “invulnerable” armor.
Shameful that we gave Syrian ISIS rebels TOW missiles. Utterly shameful. We switched sides in the war on terror and now fight beside Sunni Wahabbist extremists, the types who attacked America on 9/11.
If this was a monkey model that the Russians export there might have been no reactive armor on it. The jet may have penetrated the turret. The guy that crawled out may have been intact or only mildly wounded.
They are blaming the tanks for being defeated. But watch the video of the Syrian war over the last 10 year’s and you will see gross incompetence by the tank crews.
*** Shameful that we gave Syrian ISIS rebels TOW missiles. Utterly shameful. We switched sides in the war on terror. ***
Whenever I see the legitimate government of Syria referred to as a “regime”, I can barely stomach reading further.
Now that China has pledged its support for the legitimate Syrian Government, will it be joining Russia? Should be interesting.
We are on the wrong side of history in Syria.
Then you really missed it. “Vaccines” and man-made viruses are actually the most modern weapons of war.
*** Shameful that we gave Syrian ISIS rebels TOW missiles. Utterly shameful. ***
Now that the Baby Al Hawa crossing on the Turkish Syrian border into the jihadi held territory around Idlib will remain open, weapons will continue to flow.
Damn autocorrect. Bab Al Hawa.
And that is one of the reasons the Marine Corps is getting rid of tanks.
What say you about Germany and Japan?
In 1982 in dogfights over the Bekka Valley the Israeli Air Force shot down over sixty Syrian MiGs in a week without losing a single plane.
One Israeli pilot said of the Syrian pilots lack of aggression in the air “It was as if they wanted to die’’.
...Syrian rebels began receiving American TOW-2A missiles in 2014.
Why were we getting involved in Syria?
And the birth of ISIS.
Ah, yes. I remember in 1990, and 2003, when Saddam Hussain was said to have the most incredible, battle-hardened forces, and we had no chance. They also bragged about all the Soviet and Russian tech. God bless our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and National Guard.
What real national interests does the US have in the Syrian perpetual war?
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