Turkish army helicopter shot down by YPG / YPJ in Afrin canton

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Looks like Russia gave them an Igla to avenge Turkey giving HTS an Igla that shot down a Su-25. Tit for tat. Mess with the world's biggest country and this is the consequence.

https://www.reddit.com/r/path%3D%252Fr%252Fsyriancivilwar%252Fcomments%252F7wl1wy%252F

video footage

https://twitter.com/x/status/962304026258952193

 

[cabatli_53]

Looks like Russia gave them an Igla to avenge Turkey giving HTS an Igla that shot down a Su-25. Tit for tat. Mess with the world's biggest country and this is the consequence.

https://www.reddit.com/r/path%3D%252Fr%252Fsyriancivilwar%252Fcomments%252F7wl1wy%252F

video footage

https://twitter.com/x/status/962304026258952193

Where is the igla in video?

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Where is the igla in video?

Not shown but implied.

confirmed it was a T-129

https://muraselon.com/en/2018/02/watch-moment-turkish-military-helicopter-downed-syrias-afrin-video/

 

[Imran Khan]

today is falling day . i think we order PAF to cover all birds today is day off .lets cover the jests and pilots should go home enjoy with family and friends

 

[Tim Archer]

Turkey gone cold it seems

 

[litman]

syria is becoming a nightmare for aviators.

 

[xenon54 out]

Theres no shooting down in the video, could have been damaged by firearms and crash landed.

 

[Smriti95]

It was a T129 ATAK.

https://twitter.com/x/status/962318301505445888

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

It was a T129 ATAK.

https://twitter.com/x/status/962318301505445888

Italian helicopter? Engines are European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAI/AgustaWestland_T129_ATAK

 

[MMM-E]

Turkish Fighter Jets have launched a new wave of bombing of Pkk-Ypg terrorist targets in Syria's Afrin region ( destroyed 36 positions in Afrin region yesterday ) and 1141 terrorists were killed in 3 weeks

 

[Beast]

Russian supposed to sell S-400 SAM to Turkey. I doubt Russian will supply arms to YPG. Maybe the missile is a US Stinger Manpad.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Russian supposed to sell S-400 SAM to Turkey. I doubt Russian will supply arms to YPG. Maybe the missile is a US Stinger Manpad.

It is not...
Igla manpads were already found in this op...

And , I agree that the US may be ruled by a bunch of dumba** right now... but their services are not dumb neither "rookies"...
Giving stingers with US marks..;is almost a declaration of "war" or at least "open conflict"... And they are too smart to do so...

Other said...US gave Igla ones from East Europe... well it's a possiblity... But never they will waste their chance by giving stingers...
And even for E.European ones could be traced... and therefore the buyer... so it's still a "potential" lose for the US...

That's why Erdogan didn't explicitly said " US is giving Manpads to PKK/YPG..., but use the word "Arms" in general"

 

[kingQamaR]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

 

[The SC]

Russian supposed to sell S-400 SAM to Turkey. I doubt Russian will supply arms to YPG. Maybe the missile is a US Stinger Manpad.

There were rumours about the stinger supply before the operation began ..but the US denied it..

 

[kingQamaR]

Is this incompetence. I don't think any wise commander would use choppers in a mountanious area. We know PKK has MANPADs but in such a dense and mountanious area choppers can be taken down by other means to ?