In the operation in Tunceli the terrorist who shot down Cougar with manpads given by Greece/Cypriot by way of Yugo intel/stocks was killed, as well as a terrorist who killed police commissioner and his wife.
Several large groups caught out in the open in the past ~2 weeks. In Bingol/Bitlis/Sirnak ~20 each + 8 killed when infiltrating/attacking outpost in Cukurca (bad weather, tracked via uav).
Our guys have returned to ''airstrikes'' with sometimes addition of ''uav's tracked'. No armed uav ops...
- 14 killed in Tunceli
- 550 kg anfo, 500 gr c4 seized in Tunceli with various small arms & optics
- 2000 + 250 kg anfo (+4 ieds) seized in Tunceli as well
- 19 killed in Yuksekova
- 6 killed in Hakkari
- 3 killed in Nusaybin, 12 kg anfo seized
- 8 killed in N. Iraq airstrikes
- 15 kg anfo...
Some FSA units that participated in our ops are fighting in Hama as well...
Did not read your discussion but main issue I see with Russia is their handling of ''contractors'' to deal with nasty stuff and to limit bad pr back at home.
Erdogan doesn't even need to hate Koç, if he wants to fill pockets of his own or of connected people he will do it. BMC is going to work with the Germans, yes maybe high quality but we're going to pay out of the *** for it while on tv he calls them nazi's?! Not to mention it's going to screw...
Because we're cornered and are making strange moves.
We can get European/American system, I bet especially Europe would love a billion dollar deal right now but we wont commit because they don't give us (enough) technical know-how or quality stuff.
We then agree with the Chinese, realize they...
It was pro-SAA saying Turkey should leave or we will fight them. It ended up being Iranian and Russian airstrikes on us, yet we still took it.
So far we haven't done much for Manbij, just local clashes by FSA.
Op is finished, Americans are tweeting pics of their marines in Manbij side by side with pkk.
Doubt AKP has the balls to go forward, not to mention it might also be tied to Raqqa op. Apparently US is waiting on outcome of referendum to decide what to do while going ahead with further isolating...
- Large ops in Lice, ~9 killed and weapons/stolen vehicles(Vbieds) and drugs found, 1 soldier kia/martyred
- 11/13~ killed in Bingol, joint op with Lice.
- 7/13 (unclear for me if 20 together or just 13) killed over day in outpost in Sirnak (starting again)
- Multiple airstrikes in Iraq
- IED...
It means that rather than just splurging on bare opscore helmets our guys also splurged on additional stuff. We also saw face/cheek plates with SF coming up, don't have the pictures saved myself.
It is also part photo-op.
I also saw opscore with army mountain commando... maybe commando's next? :)
Russia on west, Americans on east. Today more pics surfaced showing direct US SOF with armored vehicles, I think Strykers.
Considering Trump is a big fan of Putin (or just compromised with that piss story) I doubt the Americans will mind them working together.
Anyhows, I doubt AKP has the...
3rd one is probably a mixture of lighter armored vehicles, bought from different suppliers (ural,zpt, jaws etc etc).
4th one is I think armored loader for transport/logistics.
In an article by Dailybeast one of FSA commanders (Turkmen) said that ISIS used pre-war water tunnels dug by Syrian government to bring in water from Euphrates river and that it connected Qabasin-Bzaah-Bab. He said they managed to gain intel and blocked them.