Yeah, no. Russian weapon systems are far more advanced than the stuff Turkey has, and they outnumber Turkey.
Their best equipment is some F-16 stuff that would be vastly overwhelmed by the number of MiG-29/31BM's that Russia has.
Yeah, no. Russian weapon systems are far more advanced than the stuff Turkey has, and they outnumber Turkey.
Their best equipment is some F-16 stuff that would be vastly overwhelmed by the number of MiG-29/31BM's that Russia has.
Across the board Turkey has a lot of 80s era gear that's been lightly upgraded over the years and generally the Russians have about 10x the quantity of 2000s to 2010s era gear.
For example Turkey has 240 very theoretically active 80s era F-16 planes (how many are not deadlined / mission capable at this instant is a mystery, half maybe?) vs the Russian military theoretically has 1531 active 2000s and newer era SAM launchers. I mean obviously the Russians can not send every anti-aircraft unit they have to a skirmish with the Turks but its instructive that if they did, they'd have roughly 10 missile launchers fighting over the chance to fire on each target...
Its a similar situation WRT armor. Turkey has about 400 1980s era Leopard tanks. Russia only has 2500 2000s+ era main battle tanks.
Nobody is going to be rolling into the other side's capital any time soon.
Also worth keeping in mind the Russians have some recent-ish real combat experience but the Turks only have experience trying to genocide Kurdish civilians.
Many have already been upgraded to Block 50 and the most basic are Block 30, all well beyond 1980s capabilities.
Avionics maintenance might be an issue but but the Israelis are quite capable of aiding there.
Your criticisms were quite valid in the 1980s when both Turkey and Greece were considered liabilities in terms of NATO capability but certainly not today.