Posted on 04/03/2018 5:10:07 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The United States has transported the Armag weapons vault from Turkey’s Incirlik Air base to another facility, YeniSafak reported.
According to the source, a 40-ton portable weapons vault was transported to another country via a C-5M Super Galaxy transport aircraft.
There has been no official explanation over the transfer yet.
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The majority of the 920,000 troops often talked about...are young conscripted guys (on a mandated one-year tour).
40 tons = 80,000 lbs.
This is the gross weight limit for a big rig in much of the US.
So it is a little bit bigger than an ordinary tractor trailer and while it is not exactly easy to move, it does not require any extraordinary equipment.
I think all of the “interesting” weapons are stored in something bigger and stronger.
It is interesting to note that throughout the 19th century European policy blocked every Russian move to envelop the Ottoman Empire and return Constantinople to Christianity (Orthodox). I wonder if Putin is not playing a deep game to ensnare Erdogan, weaken Turkey, and place Russia once and for all at the seat of Eastern Christianity.
Well, there goes Turkey’s NATO status.
Its over.
the “interesting” things have been long gone.
It is possible.
Thank you.
1 of 3 removed.
And authoritative source.
——We will soon see how “important” Turkey really is to Russia ——
Actually we learned yesterday
Turkey signed a $40 billion contract with Russia for a nuclear plant. I can argue that all of the russian effort in Syria are to help with various contracts in Turkey.
“They told me that Putin will not forget the planes shot down and the pilots killed.”
The Russians have never been known for their compassion towards their soldiers.
Russian is aware that Turkey is closer to it than we are. If Turkey goes ultra-religious, they are in the soft belly of the infidel Russians.
Or just set it to detonate when all our people are out. Of course, warn all the Orthodox too.
“Reminds me of the days in Iran leading up to fall of the Shah.”
Here’s my gun safe analysis (I have a lot of kids, YMMV)
1) The thieves break in when you’re not home. They have hours to work unobserved on your safe. The guns are gone.
2) They break in when you’re home, asleep. The noise wakes you up. You either do or do not have a gun available that’s not in the safe. If you do not, the safe is irrelevant.
3) They break in when you’re home and you don’t wake up. The first time you know they are there is when they have a gun in your three-year old’s ear. You then open the safe, and the guns are gone.
Seems like a big expense for not much advantage, when you can secure the guns using lock and key to keep kids away.
Right, but since we still have Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy, which holds that history is linear and progressive (both false), we constantly fail to see pattern repetition and we always bet one of the 5% of any of these savage or barbarian populations who can speak English and wear a suit and a tie.
The Infidel Turk does not change. The geopolitical imperatives for whoever holds Anatolia and SE Europe do not change.
Forget Ataturk. He was an oddity. Remember the Gates of Vienna. Remember Mohacs. Remember the field of blackbirds, and plan accordingly.
It's much, MUCH more likely that the United States will be expelled from NATO, and if we were wise, we would make the first move.
Armag Corporation?
“Armag designs and manufactures highly secure, pre-fabricated buildings to suit almost any purpose—range facilities, hardened offices, SCIFs, communications security vaults, base defense operations centers, IED research labs and more.”
Nice website, I could use one of these.
I don’t think that weapons vault is our high speed low drag equipment. It looks more like a vault for small arms probably for the unit that is stationed (now not stationed?) there. Go to the companies site and take a look; you can find almost the exact same thing and it’s basically an armorers vault. To me, this is not much of a story. Just unit’s moving about and taking their equipment with them.
Freeper Jeff Head had an awesome fictional account of the fall of Incirlik in one of his books.
It was ugly for our side. I think everyone died who did not escape.
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