Ankara uses Afrin campaign to showcase Turkish-made weapons
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Explains one reason they are not doing well, that and the purge of top military.
I have never used any but from what I have read and heard, they make some really nice small arms, and at good prices. Of course their stocks are “Turkish Walnut”.
I just finished a book yesterday on the history of Japan and their rise from an essentially feudal almost medieval country in the 1850s was nothing short of meteoric.
By 1900 they were a world power, putting a whipping on Russia. Their ships were copies of British and their rifles of the Mauser but still.