What is the strength of the Turkish army?

In the past few days, with the announcement of the United States to temporarily withdraw its troops from northern Syria and lift the protection of Kurdish armed forces, it is a foregone conclusion that Turkey will launch a large-scale offensive here. Erdo? an launched an operation code-named "Spring of Peace", with the intention of clearing Kurdish forces gathered east of the Euphrates River in one fell swoop. Although the Kurds are weak, their fighting will is obvious to all. Then the Turkish army is bound to face a large-scale land war in northern Syria. At this time, the strength of the Turkish army will face a great test.

To understand the strength of the Turkish army, we can make a comprehensive analysis from the aspects of scale, equipment and operational performance. The first is scale. Turkey is actually the second largest country in NATO group, second only to the United States. Its regular army has a total strength of about 400,000 people and has been organized into four group armies. This scale is one of the best in the Middle East, and few NATO groups can come up with this level of troops. If you want to compare the scale, the Kurds can't. Take this operation for example, the Turkish army has assembled more than 654.38+10,000 troops and 80,000 Syrian opposition armed forces, and tens of thousands of Kurdish armed forces are at a disadvantage.

As for the most important artillery and armored forces in land operations, the strength of the Turkish army is not bad. The Turkish Army has 4,000 tanks, of which the real weapons are mainly 354 Leopard 2A4 and Altai tanks. It is estimated that 250 tanks will be produced. This is a three-generation main battle tank with good performance. In particular, the number of equipment of Leopard 2A4 is actually the second in Turkey, only 380 in Switzerland. Coupled with a large number of ordinary second-generation tanks and more than 2960 infantry fighting vehicles, the strength of Turkish armored forces is very strong, at least in the battle against Kurds, Turkish army tanks are more than enough.

As for the artillery weapons and equipment of the Turkish army, it is not particularly superior compared with developed countries. The number of artillery of the Turkish army is 2953. Considering that Kurdish armed forces lack countermeasures against heavy firepower, even towed artillery with inconvenient mobility can be effectively used. Although most of the equipment is not very advanced, there are nearly 400 doors in 203mm M- 1 15 and M- 10A2, and more than 700 doors in 155mm. In any case, these support firepower may not be able to counter the world's advanced equipment, but it is more than enough to suppress opponents who lack advanced technology.

What's more, this scale is relatively large, and it is not a big problem to crack down on Middle East countries. Generally speaking, the Turkish army is the best in the NATO group in terms of overall scale and equipment strength, and seems to have an overwhelming advantage over the Kurdish armed forces. However, one thing is worthy of criticism, and that is the combat effectiveness of the Turkish army. In the past, Kurdish armed forces frequently used infantry weapons to blow up each other's heavy tanks, and a large number of Turkish Leopard 2 were blown up.

It has long been pointed out that the Turkish army did not work hard on the battlefield and even dared not get off the armored vehicle, so it made slow progress in the past offensive against Avrin Manbiji. Moreover, the military service period of Turkish military uniforms is about 6 to 15 months, which makes the quality of military soldiers uneven. If Turkey has any disadvantages in the future war in northern Syria, it is probably that the soldiers' quality and fighting spirit are insufficient.