True but our idiot politicians made the city an issue so we're gonna get hit with criticism if we don't take it, as it will be seen as a failure. Not taking Bab would be interpreted as not taking Manbij.
Don't forget infrastructure and how it can be altered... Tunnel warfare etc. Even in Turkey there have been instances of weapons/terrorists being found fleeing in to sewers.
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Anyways, I don't understand why we don't have those mars-v (or other recon) vehicles operating with our armor to help...
This past year there were several operations in those area's, there were also several (heavy) ied's targeting border police etc. They also found footage of a failed (Attempted) atgm attack against a police/jandarma building in that area, recovered from dead terrorists. Not to mention the...
Except Middle-East/Gulf countries use weapon deals as political leverage. Meaning other nations will profit more.
Also Turkey still lacks certain critical technologies which makes export difficult.
The prime example of this are how the Russians got caught with social media and geo-locating in Ukraine. And this goes further than this operation, our soldiers have the risk of being assassinated with their families due to pkk, have you not been paying attention past 2 years?
Plus due to...
- 2 soldiers KIA/martyred due to IED in Sirnak/Gabar during ops there,
pics of found weapons etc here; http://beyazgazete.com/fotogaleri/guncel-1/pkknin-siginaklari-imha-edildi-tum-fotograflar-25896/buyuk-fotograf-0/
- Several hide-outs destroyed and smaller ieds found & destroyed in Bingol + a...
Gov is now saying US only supported Turkish incursion up to 20+ kilometers meaning we were only ''allowed'' to close the border and not go further.
Once again proving US gave up on FSA/Aleppo long time ago, government made right move in stepping away from it and trying to improve ties with Russia.
Word going around via derinkuvvet account etc is that he was an unarmed private.
Don't see anything wrong with it tbh if that's the case, otherwise they would have simply executed him.
I re-call reading something about the 40mm UBL for the Tavor being made in Turkey (MKEK) but not sure if that would constitute 40 million $.
Considering our relations with Pakistan and fact that said area is politically unstable (:D) I doubt we can sell much more to them + India is also very...
Afaik there is no such thing as a Hurkus-C.
Hurkus-A is civil variant, Hurkus-B will be military variant. If/when B version is able to be armed and used as cheap COIN plane then it becomes C. Unless they change designs ofc.
Nah, don't think so. It's Sputnik after all.
My opinion is that we should cut our losses and turn FSA in to second line troops used for ''security'' with local population.
Aka do this shit on our own with regular Turkish troop rather than this ''task force'' mumbo jumbo.
There are reports that...