A TikTok account named "mtrks25" has published a video today (March 16), showing footage of a helicopter landing with a load, which appears to be a tank.
This video material was also captioned claiming that the footage shows heavy combat weapons belonging to the Kosovo Security Force (KSF). However, after verification by hibrid.info, no evidence was found to prove that the KSF owns such weapons.
Based on the fact that the account in question has around 11 thousand followers, hibrid.info estimates that the claim in question can be interpreted as true by the audience.
Link to the video material published by the "mtrks25" account on TikTok:
Hibrid.info has researched through the automatic search program, "InVid" and found the same video published during February on several other platforms such as Youtube, Instagram and also on TikTok (see here, here and here).
Data found in the descriptions given to the video on these platforms indicate that it is a German helicopter, named "Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion" (here).
Hibrid.info has researched using the Google search engine on the latest information about the equipment of the KSF with military equipment, and has found articles indicating that four days ago (March 12), 15 German military trucks were added to the KSF (see here, here and here).
Also, in the search on the same machine, with the keywords "armaments of the KSF", an article published in 2022 on the weapons and military equipment of the KSF was found, which does not present the alleged armament in the video material handled by hibrid.info (see here).
Analyze:
The claim that the KSF has been equipped with heavy weaponry from a video posted on TikTok is not true.
Hibrid.info has verified and confirmed that this is German weaponry, which the Kosovo Security Force does not possess.
Also, the latest military equipment that the KSF has been supplied with is 15 military trucks.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Fake News".
Reasoning:
The “Fake News” rating is given to informational content that is entirely fabricated or that contains factually incorrect claims or information. Content that is rated as fake news can be defined as having been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.