Posted on 11/29/2015 7:07:56 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at pronews.gr ...
Do the Russians have anything like the A10?
A relevant and related article from FoxTrotAlpha on the T-90: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/what-america-can-learn-from-russias-cheap-but-deadly-t-1540829820
Maybe we could lend Russia some A-10s? It is becoming obvious that the USA is now siding with the ISIS terrorists. Hello Congress is any body home?
SU-25 Frogfoot:
They have the SU-25SM. While not quite as good (or survivable) as the A-10, it’s a decent dedicated and armored ground attack aircraft and is quite good at killing tanks in its own right.
A play on words, rather letters of a name..
The only seven letter word that comes up is "groaned".
Well, depending on what the Turks and Russians end up doing, they might have actually done better with their upgraded M60s. The Israelis developed the upgrade packs for them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_%28tank%29
Note the ERA armor - that the 2A4s don’t have.
no idea, but I don’t think Turkey is going to take on Russia, they would just move into a space in the country that is friendly without any Russian or Syrian troops.
Without troops on the ground in the area where they would move, they just have to drive across the border ... you don’t have to fear anti-tank weapons where there isn’t anyone to fire them.
I wouldn’t be surprised that Turkey won’t call it an anti-ISIS action with the claim that Russian aircraft are coming too close to the border and they have to secure it to deescalate with Russia.
Most telling stat is the Su-25s' gun has 250 rounds the A-10s' gun has nearly 1200 rounds.
When they said, "NO" to the USA during one of our Iraq interventions, they officially quit NATO and should be unceremoniously removed from it.
What is Russian air to ground anti tank capability?
Yeah that the MALD system I think it is called - but the USAF may not have purchaced or deployed it - lot of budget going to F-35s ...
US Air force unveils S-400 KILLER MISSILES to scare Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85Czh9KexI.
âEndless Batallions of tanksâ......
A “Target Rich Environment” is the technical term...
MORE FOR PUTIN TO BLOW UP .......
solution impeach obama before he takes us into a nuke war
RUSSIA IS CLEANING HOUSE OF ISIS...
isn’t isis our enemy
BUT ITS TURKEY’S FRIEND AND ALLY
JV
CONTIANED
so nato is going to be fighting with isis???????
better READ THE DETAILS OF THE NATO ALLIANCE... before we get sucked in
Isaiah 34 2For the LORD’S indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter. 3So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood. 4And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree.â¦
Ditto post #11, however, keep your eye on what Russia does with their SA-400’s.. They could reap havoc with the fighter aircraft activity in the region, even without firing a single missile. 0dunga doesn’t have the BALLS to tell Russia to remove them or else, so.. Somethin’ gonna happen because of those SA-400’s, just watch.
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