{"id":181768,"date":"2016-03-21T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/21\/this-is-a-big-f-you-to-turkey\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T02:07:00","slug":"this-is-a-big-f-you-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/21\/this-is-a-big-f-you-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Big F%$# You to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia may be reducing its military presence in Syria, but they <a href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/russia-started-shipping-weapons-to-kurds-in-iraq\/\">have started shipping weapons to the Kurds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That sound you hear is the sound of Turkish heads exploding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Russia delivered the first of five planned shipments of anti-aircraft weapons to Kurdish troops in northern Iraq. According to Russian experts, Moscow officially revealed this fact for the first time with the intention to change its Middle East policy and emphasize the importance of the Kurds in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In Iraq arrived first shipment of Russian weapons to Kurdish volunteer movement \u201cPeshmerga\u201d, who fight against the \u201cIslamic state\u201d terrorist organization in the region. Senior officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry handed over anti-aircraft weapons ZU-23-2 (23 mm caliber) to the forces of resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eShipment of weapons arrived on March 14. It is intended for Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan. At the handover of weapons was held with the presense of Ambassador and Consul General of Russia in Iraq, and Deputy Chief of Staff of \u201cPeshmerga\u201d, RIA Novosti quoted Artjomova Grigorjan, attach\u00e9 of the Russian general consulate in the Iraqi city of Erbil.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the parties discuss the further delivery of the weapons. \u201cAfter the handover of weapons Russian ambassador said that this is not the last delivery. He stressed that Russia hopes \u201cPeshmerga\u201d and the Iraqi armed forces will use this weapon to win against \u201cIslamic state\u201d, said the Russian attach\u00e9.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do not confuse the ZU-23-2 with the Z<u><b>S<\/b><\/u>U23-<u><b>4<\/b><\/u> radar guided self-propelled antiaircraft system. <\/p>\n<p>The ZU is optically guided towed system.<\/p>\n<p>In a modern battlefield, its antiaircraft capabilities are limited, but it is relative mobile and capable in a surface to surface mode.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it implies that the Russians might be willing to send more capable surface to air systems, such as the ZSU, or surplus SA-6 or SA-8 systems, which they could&nbsp; use against Turkish air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Let the shrieks or outrage from Ankara begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia may be reducing its military presence in Syria, but they have started shipping weapons to the Kurds. That sound you hear is the sound of Turkish heads exploding: Russia delivered the first of five planned shipments of anti-aircraft weapons to Kurdish troops in northern Iraq. According to Russian experts, Moscow officially revealed this fact &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1063,1006,1033,980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-iraq","category-military","category-russia","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}