Peshmerga wants more weapons
The Washington Times reports that the peshmerga forces are begging for more arms to battle against the ISIS thugs. ISIS considers them a more dangerous target than the Iraqis, apparently. ISIS has been converting the spoils of their battles with the Iraqis into Vehicle Borne Explosive devices. HMMVs and bulldozer are being fitted with shaped charges so the suicide bombers can drive them into peshmerga defenses;
“We don’t have the kind of equipment that we wish to have, especially when it comes to heavy weapons,” the younger Mr. Barzani told the BBC in an interview Friday, adding that the last major shipment from Baghdad arrived in May. Peshmerga forces have only about 1,000 gas masks, he said.
“Unfortunately,” the issue of adequate supplies and firepower “has been a problem from Day One” of the war, he said.
Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the terrorist organization known as the PKK, has been taking advantage of the civil war in Syria that has spilled over into Iraq and Turkey to attack Turkish forces, according to Voice of America, which also reports that the Turks are spending more time attacking the PKK and Kurds than they are ISIS;
Turkish fighter jets responded overnight with airstrikes against Kurdish militants after the Kurdish fighters attacked a troop convoy near Turkey’s border with Iraq and Iran.
The military said Monday F-4 and F-16 warplanes struck 13 targets of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
Sunday’s attack involved roadside bombs that heavily damaged two armored vehicles and left an unconfirmed number of Turkish troops dead.
The PKK said the militants killed 15 soldiers.
So, the US finds itself in the position of needing the Turks’ cooperation in the war against ISIS as well as the peshmerga who seem to be doing a better job of killing ISIS than Iraq or Turkey. However if we supply weapons to peshmerga, how can we keep those weapons from falling into the hands of PKK and prevent those weapons from being used against the Turks?
There’s a price for not being proactive in the war against terrorists.
Category: Terror War
“Smart Power” in action… a legacy of Cankles and bodaprez.
Give the Kurds a yearly alottment of tactical nukes and watch these problems disappear.
agree
Word.
Unequivocal support for the Kurdish state.
But wait, we already gave everything to Iran!
If the Kurds are willing to fight ISIS, give them what they need to do the job… and whenit’s done, give them their own country (fuck Iran, Turkey and Iraq in the process)
A condensed version of Peshmerga hitting ISIS with Milan anti-tank weapon.
I must be terribly bloodthirsty. I enjoyed watching that.
What were those flaming rounds that bounced? Were those tracers? Should they do that? Or is that something new?
Yep, those are tracers. They have a tendency to “bounce” a lot because they don’t have the same penetration power as FMJ. In Iraq I saw tracers bouncing off cars constantly, even windshields at times.
On top of that, they also tend to “float” a bit when they bounce up and come down. I’m sure there’s a science expert who could explain that.
All that matters to me is that this was a fun one to watch and tracers are fun to watch too.
They almost act like the zero-gravity flameballs on the space station, in the FLEX-2 experiment.
I was trying to figure out how to make a weapon out of the fact that a flame in zero gravity forms a sphere instead of a teardrop shape and consumer all of the fuel, AND moves around
looking for oxygen.
Now I have the answer. Thank you!
Way Cool.
Most fucking outstanding.
Way cool. They seem to enjoy a well aimed shot. Made me chuckle. Sounded like “Fuck YEAAA!!!” in umm… what, pershmergish?
Hahaha they ran to their stolen cougar only to get annihilated again that was awesome
Whoa, wait a minute. Turkey is still flying the F-4?
My thoughts exactly.
Hell nothing to good for obozo’s muslim buddies!
Bad ass aircraft
I would have given my left nut to have enemy troops in the open like that in Vietnam. It was usually the other way around, with us being in the open.
Give the Kurds all of anything they want. They are the only ones in the fight there willing to die rather than be ruled by ISIS, Turkey or anyone. We could not have a better ally than the Kurds. The Iraqis…they have currently and long ago shown their cowardice and turncoat mentality to whichever flavor of Muslim thug they like best. Screw them and screw Iraq.
All the kurds I met were cool, most kurds that were in the IA we’re badass, and they continue to be the one useful part of that country in that war. Just give them what they need, but they will probably make due without it either way.
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I know, Send John Skerry over with a giant red reset button! It worked so well with Russia.