The militants of banned terrorist organization “Islamic state” shot down two Turkish tank missiles “cornet” in Russia. Tanks occupying positions near the city of Ar-Rai, received a two-hit anti-tank missiles fired from one position.
The effects of the hits is unknown, but the video that in the first tank ignited the ammunition and the emission of flame from the top hatch. The targets of terrorists М60Т steel tanks, which are advanced by the Israeli Sabra Mk project. II machine M60 Patton American production.
From the original M-60 is an improved tank features a new German diesel engine, MTU, Renk transmission, 120-mm gun MG253, improved sighting equipment, including infrared camera, and the use of dynamic protection. In 2000-ies with the help of Israel was upgraded 170 Turkish M60 tanks.
Anti-tank missiles “Kornet” developed in the USSR in the late 1980-ies, was actively exported to the countries of the Middle East. Militants of various terrorist groups repeatedly captured them in military warehouses in Libya, Syria and Iraq in conflicts in the middle East and North Africa in 2000-2010 years.
