Beer

LNA claims to have shot down four Bayraktar drones in one night plus additional two quadcopters. Allegedly again by Pantsir S1 supplied by UAE. Hard to say if that is true. Sounds wild for sure. 

Alleged wreckedge of some which fell on LNA territory. 

The official number rose to 33 TSK soldiers killed in the airstrikes tonight. Unofficial numbers are roughly double. 

A close video appeared of the earlier incident in which the TSK tried to shot down a VKS Su-24M near Nayrab. 

Another Bayraktar shot down in Libya.

It looks like shit hit the fan. Reports of multiple VKS airstrikes with dozens of casualites on TSK side. Turkey already blocked twitter, facebook, instagram and youtube. Several F-16 just reportedly took of from Diyarbakir.   

At this moment the official number of killed TSK soldiers tonight is 22 and the number is expected to rise in next hours. Another 2 soldiers died already in the morning. 

Those are actually post-war Czechoslovak-built vehicles but maybe it was already mentioned. 

On fourth attempt the Jihadi aliance recaptured the village Nayrab and surrounding hamplets (they captured large ghanima including 1x T-62, 1xT-55, 1-2x BMP-1 and 1x Shilka). In the same time they lost the towns Kafranbel and Hass and several other villages in the SE sector. Kafranbel was one of the symbols of the so called revolutions in its early years. 

Maps from @suriyakmaps

Bad day for Turkish drones. One Bayraktar T2 shot down in Libya, one Anka-S in Syria. 

SAA AD managed to shot down TAI Anka UCAV over Idlib.

Sold by Ukraine? 

In that case I fail to see the meaning of the comparison with 2S35 maximum range (besides that obvious nonsense in the table being the S-350). 

In the same time reports of another two attacks on Nayrab (second one still ongoing) and another two airstrikes against TSK. Some media report up to 13 dead Turkish soldiers. Nothing official atm. 

Meanwhile SAA is rolling over south-eastern front taking around a dozen of villages in the last 24 hours. 

6 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

  

Does M109A7 really have only 30 km range? 

A video footage of Russian PMCs in Syria. The footage is clearly several years old mainly from Palmyra, Al Sukhna or Aleppo battles. Many act as members of the so called ISIS hunters there. Some of the footage leaked before but for me a lot of that is new. 

Allegedly GNA Palmaria destroyed by UAE WingLoong II:

Allegedly a VKS air strike on a TSK convoy moving to south Idlib. 

Some serious contender from SAA:

Photos from Houthi exhibition. 2K12, R-27 and R-73 are known to be used by them but how did R-77 get there (if they are real and not mock-ups of cource)? R-77 has an active radar seeker so I guess it can be used in improvised anti-air defence role just like they do with the infra-red air-to-air missiles. 

On 2/19/2020 at 11:11 AM, LoooSeR said:

It looks like 3 Turkish officers were killed in the shelling. 

1 hour ago, Beer said:

Meanwhile TSK announced third dead soldier from yesterday's battle. 

So he was a tank driver... 

2 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

   Those tanks have a chance to receive damage from VKS bombs. Will be interesting to see results of such event, if it happens.

Unless SAA advances in the area where they were hit and unless the jihadists are that stupid to post photos all over the internet the armor knocked out behind the frontline can be taken away and never shown. 

41 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

Meanwhile it appears that our planes are still flying through Turkey

 

Although some plains avoid Turkey. Not sure why this strange situation exist.

Transport planes do fly through Turkey but AFAIK that Tu-154M was accompanying combat planes which Turkey didn't alow to cross. 

Meanwhile TSK announced third dead soldier from yesterday's battle. 

There are plenty of RPG-7 warhead types and those are produced by half of the people all over the Globe. I don't think it makes any sense to speak about it in general. 

Yes, I noticed the Drozd launcher too. Hard to say why it was even there - if that testing included testing of APS or otherwise why it would be installed at all. 

Sorry if it's a repost. T-72B and T-80U turrets after ballistic tests