Russians in Syria

[ivanov]

Russia to deploy S-400 to Syria

[ivanov]

Meanwhile on CNN...




Pro so much, trying so hard. Wow!

[Stimpak]

My contemporaries and I have made somewhat of an inside joke in which we never refer to Russian equipment without first mis-identifying it.
One of our favorites is routinely swapping the names of the T-62 and T-64 [:D]

[Jagdtiger14]

Stimpak, you are a funny guy! Maybe its one of your buds working over at CNN?

CNN sucks! Nothing funnier though than when MSNBC was pranked on TV when that Malaysian airliner was shot down in Ukraine.

[comte]

The Tsar and the Sultan

[Jagdtiger14]

Now this is how professionals (adults) do it:

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-plane-ente ... 41440.html

Turkey is up to some BS...is it the ISIS oil they are profiting from?...or trying to support the Turkmen in Syria?...or something else?...and would they be willing to drag NATO into it? Either drop Turkey from NATO (do we really need them?), or they should have been rebuked for their actions...unfortunately we do not have the leadership anywhere in the west for this.

[Jagdtiger14]

And now this:

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/11/russia ... ls-turkey/

Check out what one Russian MP says what could happen...to wipe out Istanbul...

[Stimpak]

Well, T-90s are officially in action now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Zp37Kdr5Y

Infact, they're already getting shot up by TOWs. Looks like the Shtora-1 either failed or simply wasn't active. A crewman also successfully bailed, and judging from that (And the turret still being firmly attached to the tank) it seems like it survived the hit.

What do you guys think? "Fallen out"? [:D]

[Mad Russian]

I would classify anything that doesn't burn as "Fallen Out".

Good Hunting.

MR

[Jagdtiger14]

Rumor coming from the YPG is that Javelin's have made their way to them and the battlefield...read this a couple weeks ago. US denying they gave any, but photos and videos have come out. If its true, the Russians are smart to work with the Kurds for multiple reasons, but the T-90's could be in trouble if Javelin's fall into the wrong hands. Turkey is probably freaking out by now...bye, bye Turkish armor if there is a wider Kurd/Turk conflict.

Javelin's FYI: Fire and forget. Kind of the land version of Stinger's.

[TheWombat_matrixforum]

The comments on that piece about the T-90 indicate that it in fact was not destroyed or even fallen out, that after the panicking crewman got back in it drove off. I have no idea how reliable that is, but it makes a certain degree of sense, if the reactive armor did its job.