Meow.
Turkey has been forced to turn to domestic defense companies for upgrades to the Soviet-era tanks. On 24 August 2016, the Turkish military began the operation ‘Euphrates Shield’ (ES) to clear the northern Syrian territory of the ISIS presence.
The cross-border military operation was carried along with Syrian rebel factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
The joint force flushed out the so-called Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish forces who had taken control of the territory. Turkish military campaign carried on successfully until it reached the city of al-Bab, around 40 kilometers east of Aleppo, in December 2016, where the armored vehicles faced a barrage of Daesh and Kurdish missiles.
Turkey had bought one of the best tanks to the battleground – the German Leopard 2A4 – which it had hoped would confront ISIS anti-tank missiles and improvised explosives which had previously destroyed many of the country’s M-60 Patton tanks.
To their surprise, the tanks were unable to stand the adversary firepower with multiple Leopard tanks damaged in the counterfire.
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Time will tell even with the continuing lying on both sides (if we are allowed to live that long).
More blows of Zelensky by the Brit propaganda outlets.
“would bring nothing good to the future relations”
Methinks that horse is out of the barn, down the street, and around the corner.
Income taxes in Russia are 13%, and they are 18% in Ukraine. Maybe the Ukrainians need to rethink things(?)
Thanks ain’t any good without the support units behind them.
They need crews, mechanics, transports etc.
Russia has produced 35,000 of these first rate, man portable ATGMs. And they’re cheap.
They can kill any MBT in the world out to 8,000m.
Syrian “rebels” have killed at least a dozen Turkish Leopard 2s with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M133_Kornet
Hammer time!
Get those tank drivers some baggy pants!
Our Satanic “government” is reprehensible.
This senseless “war” is costing the US TAXPAYER a fortune, and it’s only going to piss off the Russians even more.
Their anger will only escalate into something more dangerous and destructive.
Keep in mind the Russians are very hard people. They burned their own homes and the city of Moscow itself to disallow Napoleon’s troops from gaining possession of their lands.
This “latest move” is just going to lead to more corrupt AF Ukrainian government creeps stealing our money, resources, and defense materiel, and it’s going to cause a very harsh and destructive response from Russia.
It’s LOSE-LOSE to finance and support the criminals in Ukraine.
Russia is fighting this war badly. If they were fighting smarter than Ukraine they would have won already - a point the pro-Russian posters ignore as much as possible.
Most of the advanced Russian military hardware, the Su-57, T-14 Armata, do not exist in significant numbers. Russia's military equipment is largely where it was when the USSR fell, when US and NATO equipment proved what they could do to Russian tanks in the first Gulf War in the 1990s. The Leopards are modern, up to date tanks. As others have posted, support for Leopard tanks is widely available. What NATO's can spare (and replace) is far better than what Russia can deploy.
So they will get 200 hundred tanks, when will they get there, where are the tank crews to man them coming from. where is the support personnel to keep them running, where is the fuel and spare parts coming from? How many months will it take to train tank crews from Ukraine Army so they can used?
These are just pesky details that no one has thought about or provided answers for.