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| The war between the Turkish Government and the Kurdish sub-faction PKK continues (video below). |
May 15, 2016, NewsCrunch
Kurdish Worker's Party or PKK has posted a video of its fighters shooting down a Turkish helicopter with a hand-held missile launcher.
The video, an amateur footage, shows an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter flying at a distance and a PKK fighter getting ready to fire a man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) missile.
As a countdown ends, he fires the a heat-seeking missile, which catches up with the Turkish chopper and blows it to bits. The MANPADS missile appears to be a Russian designed SA-7 derivative,
Though Turks and Kurds have joined the common front against ISIS, the seemingly perpetual warfare between the Turkish Government and the Kurdish sub-faction known PKK continues.
The hand-held missile launchers were famously used by Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s in their war against the Soviet Union. CIA had armed them with FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS to target Russian attack helicopters.