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I don't think we should read too much into this design.

UK Launches Jet Trainer Tender "The UK Defense Ministry issued a request for information (RFI) to industry on Aug. 8 for the Jet Training System (JTS), launching market engagement for the program... JTS aims to replace the Hawk T1s flown by the Red Arrows aerobatic team and the more modern Hawk...

Final FAC design is a further upgraded MPAC. MPAC was one of the runner ups for the FAC tender, but it is not the final version. And to be honest looks like the design changed somewhat again looking at the bridge and the mast. Ship that's being built more like a mini Istif more than the released...

All going according to the plan. https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/08/10/us-troops-preparing-to-leave-iraqi-kurdistan-by-september-30/

First New Type FAC, much cleaner photo

Hesham Alghannam, a Saudi security analyst and researcher, agreed that neither country was likely to engage offensively in the short term, but drew a distinction between what the agreement “can deliver now versus what it aspires to become.” “If proxy attacks on Saudi territory continue and...

Last few days were interesting. "Mecca Agreement", is not a military pact at this stage. It's clearly a framework agreement with specifics to be covered in the future. But, this shouldn't make one think that it's something ordinary. It is monumental in its own right. There will be many...

After multiple ministerial meetings back to back, this should be interesting.

In the last YAŞ meeting, 2 female colonels were made generals. Both helicopter pilots, Özlem Karapınar as I can see from the 125 CSAR Squadron(now retired, amalgamated into 135 in Konya) became air force's first female general; Armağan Özel from Army Aviation Command, became army's first female...

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It's not a new contract worth 4.9 billion. In 2026H1, Aselsan signed contracts worth totaling 4.9 billion. Editor of the piece just doesn't know how to speak Turkish.

Big words for a country who's most potent fighter is a 00s F-16. Even with Kaan online, EF would still be our most kinematically potent fighter. And we need that kind of kinematic potency re Greece. We always did. They got Mirages, then Rafales; we didn't do jackshit for 40 years. KE is...

Updating this with 113, 132, 133, 151, 161, 162, 181, 191, 192, 193, 152 and 166 for F-16 squadrons. 193 usually acts as a transition unit for future F-16 pilots but they undertake combat ops as well. In the last 2 years, 162, 192, 166 and now 133 were revived/formed, bringing the total to 12...

Looks like the old 133 "Claw" was brought back to life as well. They used to fly F-5s and it was disbanded in 2013. The "132" detail on the first patch makes me think they will possibly be another tactics and training squadron like the 132? Funfact, with 133 being returned back to life, we...

What we received with F-16 CCIP mod package and the missions computes is heaps and bounds more than what we will receive with the EF buy package.