Turkey launches land offensive into Iraq

[marvin-martian]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSANK00037420080222?rpc=92

the state department official had it right..."This is not the greatest news" especially at a time when al-Sadr might be revoking his ceasefire against U.S. troops. Im gonna be paying attention to this, thats for sure

 

[Escaep]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...0080222?rpc=92

the state department official had it right..."This is not the greatest news" especially at a time when al-Sadr might be revoking his ceasefire against U.S. troops. Im gonna be paying attention to this, thats for sure

Al-Sadr did extend the cease fire another 6 months.

 

[phantomdesign]

Interesting . . . Wonder what Turkey hopes to accomplish?

P.S. Link doesn't work.

 

[bbson john]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...0080222?rpc=92

Fix the link. (the ... part)

 

[Solaris]

I hope the Kurdish workers party kick the shit out of the Turks.

 

[15357]

Interesting.







We've been selling the Turks our K1A1 main battle tanks for quite a long time now, along with other various military assets.

If they actually somehow fight US troops, the US will no longer have armor advantage. M1A1s VS K1A1s would be evenly matched.

 

[marvin-martian]

link fixed. sorry about that

 

[15357]

Turkish armour is almost entirely Cold War M48/M60 Pattons from the pre-Abrams era, not K1A1s

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Then what did they do with our exports? D:

 

[phantomdesign]

The armor wouldn't do them much good against one of these . . .

Yes, that's right, we have flying tanks!

 

[Barnz]

I hope the Kurdish workers party kick the shit out of the Turks.

**** off, dumbass.

 

[Sulkdodds]

**** off, dumbass.

i think politics forum is a pretty cool guy, eh won't tolerate spam and flames and doesn't afraid of anything

have a nice infraction!

 

[Eejit]

I think that this may not be a good thing.

 

[15357]

I'm curious now - do you have a source/link re. the export of K1's?

I'm trying to find an English version, brb.

I couldn't find one for the K1s, but I found one for the Samsung K9 Thunder SP-Howitzer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_howitzer

The K-9 Thunder is an indigenous South Korean self-propelled 155 mm howitzer developed by Samsung Techwin.

Used by South Korea, Turkey

I'll take a look at Hyundai's site and see if I can come up with anything. I might be wrong, though.