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[RichardB]

Merely stating fact young Frederick

If either side decided to 'kick off' the first casualty would be the airfields would they not

but the turks will probably be asleep and unable to respond

[YFred]

Merely stating fact young Frederick

If either side decided to 'kick off' the first casualty would be the airfields would they not

The Terks are sharp shooters, they’ll be able to shoot the artillery in mid air at the highest point of trajectory well before it hits the ground.
Do you also realise how much damage they can do to your airfileds and ports and the economic cost etc etc.
You know war does not make sense.

[iceman]

If I assume that Y-Front's translation...

"Untill you see someone elses dick, you think yours is a pole. "

...is spot on, then I can confidently inform that on a pound for pound basis, the Cypriot National Guard’s dick IS a pole!

re Gr...if you remember we had this silly discussion few years ago....Unless you have air support and also can match up the Turkish army in numbers, there is fuck all your national Guard can do to them in a war..
Now that they have two airports under their control in north Cyprus the Turkish Air Force will annihilate whatever you can put against them in no time..

your National Guard is like a fly on a camels arse for them..

Remind me how long it would take to render the 2 airfields U/s with an artillary bombardment which would I presume be the first action on any agenda

Come on Richard,i thought you were one of the sensible ones on this forum..
Turkish army has a contingent of minimum 40.000 in north Cyprus..(this is normal time, when they are not needed) now lets say there is a war,they can double or triple that number absolutely in no time..
They have so many tanks stashed away all over Mesaoria plain you cannot comprehend..
You will not have time to load your artillery guns to fire second time.

Let's assume you bombed and destroyed the two airfields..They have seven long-range KC-135R-CRAG Stratotanker aerial refueling planes for refueling their combat aircraft in mid air over Cyprus.

Stop kidding yourselves that you can fight the Turkish army and survive..they keep a larger army than your population.
Army of nutters who are not afraid of dying!!

[Gregory]

If I assume that Y-Front's translation...

"Untill you see someone elses dick, you think yours is a pole. "

...is spot on, then I can confidently inform that on a pound for pound basis, the Cypriot National Guard’s dick IS a pole!

re Gr...if you remember we had this silly discussion few years ago....Unless you have air support and also can match up the Turkish army in numbers, there is fuck all your national Guard can do to them in a war..
Now that they have two airports under their control in north Cyprus the Turkish Air Force will annihilate whatever you can put against them in no time..

your National Guard is like a fly on a camels arse for them..

Remind me how long it would take to render the 2 airfields U/s with an artillary bombardment which would I presume be the first action on any agenda

Come on Richard,i thought you were one of the sensible ones on this forum..
Turkish army has a contingent of minimum 40.000 in north Cyprus..(this is normal time, when they are not needed) now lets say there is a war,they can double or triple that number absolutely in no time..
They have so many tanks stashed away all over Mesaoria plain you cannot comprehend..
You will not have time to load your artillery guns to fire second time.

Let's assume you bombed and destroyed the two airfields..They have seven long-range KC-135R-CRAG Stratotanker aerial refueling planes for refueling their combat aircraft in mid air over Cyprus.

Stop kidding yourselves that you can fight the Turkish army and survive..they keep a larger army than your population.
Army of nutters who are not afraid of dying!!

It will work if you guys hit them from behind.

[RichardB]

If I assume that Y-Front's translation...

"Untill you see someone elses dick, you think yours is a pole. "

...is spot on, then I can confidently inform that on a pound for pound basis, the Cypriot National Guard’s dick IS a pole!

re Gr...if you remember we had this silly discussion few years ago....Unless you have air support and also can match up the Turkish army in numbers, there is fuck all your national Guard can do to them in a war..
Now that they have two airports under their control in north Cyprus the Turkish Air Force will annihilate whatever you can put against them in no time..

your National Guard is like a fly on a camels arse for them..

Remind me how long it would take to render the 2 airfields U/s with an artillary bombardment which would I presume be the first action on any agenda

Come on Richard,i thought you were one of the sensible ones on this forum..
Turkish army has a contingent of minimum 40.000 in north Cyprus..(this is normal time, when they are not needed) now lets say there is a war,they can double or triple that number absolutely in no time..
They have so many tanks stashed away all over Mesaoria plain you cannot comprehend..
You will not have time to load your artillery guns to fire second time.

Let's assume you bombed and destroyed the two airfields..They have seven long-range KC-135R-CRAG Stratotanker aerial refueling planes for refueling their combat aircraft in mid air over Cyprus.

Stop kidding yourselves that you can fight the Turkish army and survive..they keep a larger army than your population.
Army of nutters who are not afraid of dying!!

I dont want to conemplate the war scenario Iceman i was merely giving my opinion that the airfields would be the first to go ( On both sides )

So at least initially it would be left to the troops on the ground..probably for the first 6-12 hours at least God knows thats a lot of time for killing

Other persons on forum are far more conversant with facts and figures re the military might of either side.

[Get Real!]

Turkish army has a contingent of minimum 40.000 in north Cyprus..(this is normal time, when they are not needed) now lets say there is a war,they can double or triple that number absolutely in no time..

It goes to show how much you know about logistics during a war...

They have so many tanks stashed away all over Mesaoria plain you cannot comprehend.. You will not have time to load your artillery guns to fire second time.

That fast? Wow!

Let's assume you bombed and destroyed the two airfields..They have seven long-range KC-135R-CRAG Stratotanker aerial refueling planes for refueling their combat aircraft in mid air over Cyprus.

Aerial refueling over Cyprus during a war? Definitely not recommended!

Stop kidding yourselves that you can fight the Turkish army and survive..they keep a larger army than your population.

That’s based on your assumption that they are willing & able to bring it all here during a conflict…

Army of nutters who are not afraid of dying!!

The typical Turkish Cypriot mythology that Turks are superhuman!

[Piratis]

Cyprus of course doesn't stand a chance on a direct war against Turkey. This is why we are negotiating right now.

We have every right to push Turkey out of our territory with an armed struggle. The reason we don't do so is not because Turks have even the slightest right to occupy even an inch of Cyprus, but because they have the military power to impose such an illegality and we don't have the power to restore legality.

However the balance of power does change. And by that I don't mean that one day Cyprus will have more power than Turkey. What I mean is that it is very easy to imagine Turkey breaking apart in an internal conflict between Turks and Kurds (Kurds are the largest nation on earth without their own state, who keep multiplying and sit on top of a lot of oil). At that point, if we are well prepared, we along with Greece and the right support from outside, could defeat a crippled Turkey.

Those who believe that such thing can not happen should try to remember what happened to the once mighty Ottoman empire. Or, for a more recent example, how tiny countries such as Latvia got liberated from the mighty nuclear super power USSR.

Maintaining our rights over the north part of our country and be well prepared could mean nothing now, but it could make the difference under a different balance of power.

[Piratis]

Army of nutters who are not afraid of dying!!

The typical Turkish Cypriot mythology that Turks are superhuman!

I think iceman confused the Turkish army with the Taliban

[RichardB]

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They have so many tanks stashed away all over Mesaoria plain you cannot comprehend.. You will not have time to load your artillery guns to fire second time.

It wouldnt take a great artillery barrage to saturate the mesaioria plain

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Let's assume you bombed and destroyed the two airfields..They have seven long-range KC-135R-CRAG Stratotanker aerial refueling planes for refueling their combat aircraft in mid air over Cyprus.

Why on earth wpould there be a need to refuel in the air when the Turkish mainland is only 40 miles away??? A real need for 7 (seven) long range refueling planes!!! ..refueling over Cyprus ..it would be like a Turkey shoot (pardon the pun)

[kurupetos]

The only way to free Cyprus, is to occupy Turkey.