Turkey’s advanced FNSS Kaplan-10 vehicle, which was designed to hunt battle tanks and provide fire support to infantry, has been spotted in Syria.
On January 2, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense released a video showing two Kaplan-10 anti-tank vehicles in an unspecified location in Syria. The video was filmed to celebrate the beginning of 2021.
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Developed by Turkey’s FNSS Defence Systems, the Kaplan-10 is armed with a remotely-controlled anti-tank missile system and a coaxial 7,68 mm machine gun.
The vehicle can launch Turkish-made Mizrak-O anti-tank guided missiles, which are guided by infrared homing, or Russian-made Kornet-E missiles, which are guided by laser-beam riding. The Mizrak-O has a range of 8 km, while the Kornet-E’s range is 5,5 km.
The Kaplan-10’s missile system relies on the advanced fire-control system equipped with thermal and TV cameras as well as a laser range-finder.
Turkey occupies vast parts of northern and northeastern Syria. Thousands of Turkish troops are also deployed in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.
Ankara stepped up its military presence in Syria in the last two years. Turkish officials claim that their troops presence in the war-torn country is temporary. However, they appear to be planning to stay there for the long term.
Turkey is now the main NATO leader starting from january 1st 2021. Charge over the high reponse unit of NATO has been transfered to Turkey.
Built around Turkey’s 66th Mechanised Infantry Brigade of around 4,200 troops, a total of around 6,400 soldiers will serve on the VJTF. Units from Albania, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, the UK, and the United States will also serve on the force, which is part of the Alliance’s larger NATO Response Force. Turkey has made substantial investments into the unit – amongst the most mobile in NATO – particularly in its logistics and ammunition requirements planning. The latest models of Turkish armed vehicles, anti-tank missiles and howitzers have been allocated to the force.
So why should this please Europeans ; when Turkey is the aggressor for the last few years in particular? Can you see Greece being happy about this ? Or should we sacrifice the Greeks like we did Czechoslovakia in 1938 to Hitlers’ grandiosity? Just to sate the Turks and keep them hapoy as our “main nato protector”? The Turks can “ride out “ the way they came in…
They are both drama queens since they are genetically same But in truth they have no interest in each other and haven’t engaged since ww1. Both sides have a lucrative and increasing tourist industries and status quo harmony is mutual beneficial and plus they are allies and have a defense treaty
he is confused—most NATO nations hostile or suspicious of turkey—Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, France Germany, USA….this is also displayed in refusal to accept EU admission
These countries are willing to work with Turkey on all fronts from defense, trade and everything. The world is not based upon your narrow far-right extremist view and that is not how the world flows
Tell the second sentence you wrote to your friend erdogan.
clean your soul from pettiness it is not good for you in the long run It won’t give you anything
Your comment more expected of Idealists and/ or Americans.
WRONG none of them wants to cooperate with Turkey on anything.
Sure Jen. They are the current NATO leaders regardless these you say won’t cooperate chose them to take charge this year. Reality on the ground says otherwise and by the way are you not a Russian? Soviet views in NATO has no weight
I am neither a Soviet nor a NATO supporter. NATO is not controlled by the Americans.
The president is Norwegian. Well it is good that you admit your not a supporter
A useful idiot indeed…Stoltenburg. A marionette in practise and his delivery of speeches is as wooden.
You mean Stoltenberg. The Norwegian Statoil with a percentage of 8.71% is a shareholder in the Baku Ceyhan pipeline. Jens Stoldenberg has known her well since she was a member of parliament as chairman of the Independent Energy Authority and a pioneer in the creation of Norway’s “Hydrocarbon Exploitation Fund”, which eventually became a global player.
Later, as prime minister, he pioneered the privatization of Statoil and its transformation into Equinor. Stolderberg took over Norway with zero defense spending and handed it over first in the world. His placement in NATO was essentially a reward. And of course we do not forget that Norway provides Turkey with specialized personnel for its illegal investigations in Greece and Cyprus. For those who did not understand, the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline is in a sense a “child” of Stoldenberg.
I will say ;it again NATO is NOT CONTROLLED BY THE USA
A damn fool who privatised a state wealth fund! I thought Qatar was the main financier of Turkey for the last twenty five years.? When did that stop? That and secret Eu and Soros money. What do you mean by “specialized personnel by Norway” and “illegals investigations inGreece and Cyprus”?
I disagree. I think the US calls the shots.
“These countries are willing to work with Turkey on all fronts…” … where did you get that from?! … as a well informed national of one of these countries, I can assure you that you are wrong, not to say otherwise …
The Turks will leave NATO at some point … when China gives them orders.
Turks taking orders from China? I’ll believe it when I see it.
Do you know what a dependent state is ??? A dependent state in international affairs is a state that is economically, politically or militarily subordinated to another more powerful state. Turkey is dependent on China, and it does what China tells it to do, since the Turkish economy relies on a lot of money from China.
-China money flows into Turkey as crisis creates opening
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/China-money-flows-into-Turkey-as-crisis-creates-opening
-Turkey Got a $1 Billion Foreign Cash Boost From China in June
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/turkey-got-1-billion-from-china-swap-in-june-boost-to-reserves -Chinese bank to loan $3.6 billion to Turkey https://www.aa.com.tr/en/energy/invesments/chinese-bank-to-loan-36-billion-to-turkey/21019
Vassalage requires much more than receiving pocket change.
I actually like China more than most…lol
It’s Erdogan, the master chess player. You haven’t seen anything yet. All of a sudden, Russia agreed to a joint patrol of the ceasefire in Nargono Karabakh. That was because news emerged on Turkey and the U.S forming a joint task group to iron out the S-400 issue. Russia cannot be trusted. It’s an opportunistic imperialistic bully. Turkey should not abandon its Western partners, especially the U.S. There’s great economic benefit for Turkey in cooperating with the West right now. The S-400 is important in preventing another airforce coup in Turkey, but there are other ways to prevent a coup by the U.S without operating the S-400.
Logical but not true. There are NO joint patrols as I also once thought. There are only some Turks in a control -room with Russians.Only Russians patrol.
There is no “working group “ as the Turks broadcast. Turks can’t be believed. Too many of their official pronouncements are seen to be lies within days. The US has publicly said there is NO “S400- working group “ as mentioned by Erdogan’s gov.
The Azerbaijani side is now building a center to be located in the Agdam region. This monitoring center will be ready in the next ten days – maximum two weeks,” Aliyev said at a meeting with the Turkish delegation led by Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, according to TASS. “The sooner the monitoring center starts its activities, the better. Because, despite the fact that almost two months have passed since the end of the war, threats still exist. Uncontrolled Armenian military formations operate on our territory, some of which do not want to surrender. Therefore, to eliminate this threat and, in general, to ensure peace and stability in the region in the future, a monitoring center is definitely needed, “Aliyev noted. https://southfront.org/joint-russian-turkish-center-to-monitor-karabakh-ceasefire-will-start-working-in-10-14-days-azerbaijani-president/
Russia initially rejected any kind of joint operations with Turkey.
Yes, Russia did say that about joint patrols ,but your article mentions no joint -manned patrols.It only says “monitoring center “ like I mentioned a control-room.
Okay. But isn’t it a little suspicious that this move comes just a few days ago, while the cease-fire was reached over 2 months ago? I still think that Russia is making this U-turn to influence Turkey’s sudden decision to attempt mending ties with the U.S. Turkey now has to choose whether to coup-proof the regime via Russia’s S-400 or through further purges, vigilance, and checkmating the western agents in the Turkish military. Again, Turkey was just given a leadership role in NATO. Looks like Russia is in for tougher times. First, the dems are very anti-Russian. Second, they are likely to be more aggressive towards Russia in Syria. Third, Turkey will prove less cooperative in both Syria and Libya due to Russia’s attitude towards the Sunni Muslim world. The west deliberately allowed Turkish-Russian disagreement to deepen so that Turkey breaks away from its premature relations with Moscow. This appears to have worked for the West. It’s very likely Putin has overplayed his hands with Turkey, particularly in Libya.
” Turkey is now the main NATO leader starting from january 1st 2021. The Charge over the high reponse unit of NATO has been transfered to Turkey.”
It is not exactly like that. The Poles express their objections. It remains to be seen whether the persuasions of these experts will be transformed into an official policy of the Polish government. The only sure thing is that the USA speaks through the mouths of the Poles. and NATO.
So how exactly do you win a battle with them? Infantry is going to trust a pimply teenager -who played ps 4 -based in a qatar garage to operate it to protect them when bullets and artillery is raining down on them?
” Infantry is going to trust a pimply teenager ”
Actually yes, with the proper equipment and a well defined enemy these ” pimply ” gaming geeks would tear up the enemy. Watch some video game competitions to see what I’m talking about.
That’s the same way the Bayraktars are controlled. And they rained hell on your allies in three countries.
it is add on to concept RCWS(Remote controlled weapon station)..focus is to allow a gunner to remain in the relative protection of the vehicle while gunner is managing target from the computer inside the vehicle..There is no teenager,no garage building whatsoever or qatar… forget it… Many countries is operating these..even in naval platforms ..???
No need to gloat nor feel superior. I never said I know everything about war etc. So if the gunner is still in the vehicle it is just another tank ,right? What is the big deal then? It would in fact be safer then for the gunner to be in a garage in qatar?
Mocking is the right word…not feeling superior but it makes me laugh ?…
Again, Turks develop weapons that would work well within their sphere of influence, modern or remodernized tanks have soft and kinetic kill capabilities against ATGM, counter battery radars observing the firing of these missiles would direct a decisive counterfire against them. I would take the T2 Terminator against Kaplan 10 anytime.
It’s just a truck with ATGM launchers, so hardly unique.
Looks like a glorified M113 APC with rocket launchers, it might be effective against Syrian T72 or the T62 sent to Libya, however in case of frontal tank attack, artillery would soften up suspected ATGM positions to a considerable manner, helicopters and drones would further identify and illuminate targets to be fired at.
fake news: surrounded “observation posts” is not occupation
Turkey should first build engines for their dones, but they can´t ^^
So can only attack enemies with permission from their masters.
A very impressive 8km range for the Turkish missile, that means even the Russian T-90’s will be out ranged if it comes to a fight, a 3km range difference will mean the Turks will be able to get the first shot in before the tanks can even target them. And the infra red homing means a fire and forget advantage for the Turks, which allows the vehicle to quickly move location as soon as it’s fired it’s missile to avoid retaliatory strikes, you have to be still to hit a target from 8km away, no mobile shooting at extreme ranges. Artillery isn’t the answer and drones wouldn’t be that effective either [co axial machine gun and infantry support], but higher altitude fighter bombers would be, they’d easily kill those tank killers, that’s if they were allowed to, and hopefully they will be allowed to if another fight starts. Long range tank killing missiles, high tech drones, what’s next.