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Looks like the Syrian Army was caught with its pants down, the vehicles staying still in the open. They didn't expect the Turks at all. And they were right next
by dimitar 7y ago
Looks like the Syrian Army was caught with its pants down, the vehicles staying still in the open. They didn't expect the Turks at all. And they were right next to the border. It is possible to minimise such damage by moving often and using cover and camouflage.
Unlike planes, tanks can work just fine in the dark or in bad weather. Smoke screens can be deployed to conceal movement.
Artillery and planes need good spotting too, which means that targeting a moving and unpredictable target is hard.
During the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia the Serbs effectively hid most of their armour in forests and churches, so it is possible even to hide from even the most high-tech adversary.
- LgWoodenBadger 7y agoplanes may not have worked well in the dark during WW2 (excluding night fighters), but that hasn't been true in decades thanks to thermal imaging and night-vision advances.
- sudosysgen 7y agoI think the entire Turkey vs Syria situation is a misunderstanding of the tactical situation. Shooting down the drones would have been fairly easy, but Syria wasn't able to sortie its fighters because Turkey had F-16s on their side of the border that would fire off an AMRAAM as soon as a Syrian jet took off. The obvious counter would be anti air, but the issue is that Russia was unwilling to engage Turkish jets on Turkish territory on behalf of Syria (for obvious reasons). The real reason that Syria's tanks were destroyed is because Syria was unable to counter Turkish F-16s, not because of drones.