Turkish Cobra helo shot down by Kurdish MANPADS

[Slater]

Without modern countermeasures these helos seem like a sitting duck for these types of weapons. Is this a new dimension in the Kurd/Turk conflict?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXwqTYHu1IA


Turkish military helicopter shot down
Eight high ranking Turkish military personnel killed after Kurdish rebels shot down a helicopter near the Turkey’s border with Iraq, Turkey’s military said Friday.

Clashes broke out with rebels of Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, near the town of Cukurca, in Kurdish Hakkari province, early on Friday, killing six soldiers, a military statement said. Eight other soldiers were wounded.

A military helicopter sent to the area to support the soldiers later was downed by Kurdish forces, killing its two pilots. Turkish military claimed that helicopter crashed near Cukurca district, however, Kurdish forces said that they shot down Turkish helicopter.

Fighting between the PKK and the government forces picked up again in July when a more than two-year old peace process collapsed. Around 400 security force members have died since then, according to Associated Press.

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SA-16 Gimlet iirc

[sgtrock82]

Where were these 8 high ranking personnel on this 2 seat gunship?

[TheChunkNorris]

Where were these 8 high ranking personnel on this 2 seat gunship?

Thinking the same exact thing.

[mack7.62]

Come on, everyone knows that the Cobra has a bay door on the right flop down and can carry 3 VIP's not sure where the other 3 perched.

http://kitup.military.com/2011/08/my-other-ride-is-a-ah-1-cobra-aka-attack-helicopter-piggyback.html

This "trick" was done during the Nam years so it is not something new.

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8 was the reported figure for all Turkish casualties including the crash. "A military helicopter sent to the area to support the soldiers later crashed, killing its two pilots, the military said, adding that the crash was due to a technical fault."

Technical fault being a huge missile up its ass.

[platoonDaddy]

Maybe they used a TOW


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vxxQOTCN18

[KalashniKEV]

Without modern countermeasures these helos seem like a sitting duck for these types of weapons.

Biji Kurdistan!
Biji PKK!
Biji Peshmerga!

Also, this:


They won't see a nervous, hysterical reaction which is dangerous to ourselves and the entire world. There will be no such thing, and we will not engage in sabre rattling... But if people think that after carrying out a heinous war crime, killing our people, they’ll get away with a tomato ban or some limits in the construction sector? They’re very wrong. We will keep remembering what they did. And they will keep regretting it.

Turkey = ISIS.

NATO will not save them.

There is only one path for the Turkish state with Erdogan at the helm.