The war between Russia and Ukraine has entered its ninth week, and after Russia launched a "special military operation" in Ukraine, the United States and NATO, while increasing sanctions against Russia, are also providing a large amount of military assistance to Ukraine, including the provision of T-72 main battle tanks and S300 anti-aircraft missiles, and recently planning to provide Ukraine with equipment such as MiG-29 fighter jets. The war between Russia and Ukraine began on February 24, and as Ukraine drew the flames into Russia, the Middle East resumed, not only israel's strikes against Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon, but also Turkey's cross-border strikes against Iraq.
According to the announcement issued by the Turkish Ministry of Defense, Turkey began a new round of strikes against the Kurdish armed forces in northern Iraq, during which Turkey used fighter jets, helicopter gunships and main battle tanks to carry out critical attacks on the Kurdish armed forces in Iraq. Turkey's fight against Kurdish armed forces is unscrupulous, not only against the Kurdish armed forces in Turkey, but also against the Kurdish armed forces in Syria and Iraq, Turkey does not give the Americans face at all, the United States is openly supportive of the Kurdish armed forces, the US Congress will provide funds for the Kurdish armed forces every year, and will also provide military personnel training.
According to the news released by the Turkish media, a military plane crash occurred in the Turkish Air Force on April 25, when a Turkish Air Force trainer plane suddenly crashed in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa, and the trainer plane crashed into a local residential area. For this accident, the top level of the Turkish Air Force ordered a thorough investigation, and so far there have been no reports of the specific cause of the accident.
The Turkish Air Force currently has two trainer aircraft, namely the KT-1 single-engine propeller trainer imported from South Korea and the T-38 twin-engine jet trainer aircraft imported from the United States, according to the news released by Turkey, this crash is a single-engine trainer aircraft, so it is likely to be a KT-1 trainer aircraft imported from South Korea. South Korea's KT-1 trainer aircraft was not only exported to Turkey, but also purchased by many countries, including the Indonesian Air Force, and the Cupid Air Show Team of the Indonesian Air Force used the KT-1 trainer aircraft imported from South Korea. KT-1 this trainer aircraft is not well received, has been many vicious accidents, in 2022 in addition to the Turkish Air Force crashes, the South Korean Air Force has 2 KT-1 trainer aircraft crashed, resulting in the death of 4 pilots.
The Turkish Air Force is quite strongly equipped, according to public sources, the Turkish Air Force has 245 F-16C/D fighters, as well as 48 F-14 fighters. The Turkish Air Force has extensive combat experience, and in recent years the Turkish Air Force has appeared in several battlefields, including the Syrian civil war and operations against Iraqi Kurdish forces, and the Turkish Air Force F-16C/D fighter jets have also shot down Russian Su-24 fighter-bombers. 202204385/Aviation Vision/AZ, Turkey is a member of NATO and claims to be NATO's second military power, but due to U.S. sanctions, Turkey is now unable to obtain the F-35A Lightning II fighter from the United States.