Recent content by Sanchez

Regular Hisar-O. Aselsan started a numbering system on their models last year or the other year. First number usually denote the version. For gun based systems second number usually mean the caliber. Regular Korkut for example is now Korkut 150/35. Arma 8x8 based Korkut is Korkut 140/35, while...

"I’m not sure if the “delegation” from Belgium has been fully described. We’re talking about a delegation of over 420 people. They came representing around 200 companies and organizations. As far as I know, nearly a quarter of the delegation is here to assess the defense industry." Indeed...

It must be, Sedef has the İzmir.

They are M60TMs with Pulat. They belong to the land forces, they rotate all the time. Syria deployment is now mostly over.

No, they are retiring their old F-18C/D Hornets to replace them with F-35s; they never operated the F-18E/F. This was always their plan since 2000s.

Annndd goes all in! "Türkiye has exported the Siper Air Defense System to an undisclosed country."

And Akbaba increases the bet. "Ragıp Soylu’s report emphasizes that Kuwait wants to purchase Hisar AD systems from Turkey. Kuwait is interested not only in Hisar but also in the Steel Dome system as a whole. Qatar and Saudi Arabia have taken delivery of Korkut systems. They have also taken...

All F-16s will undergo Özgür and the structural upgrade. None will be retired from 2035.

Welt publishing this and then DW TR quoting it is.. interesting.. -- MEE claims Kuwait is looking at Akıncı and Hisar AD; Qatar and Saudi signed for Korkut and Iraq is also interested in the system in large numbers...

No info on numbers were released. Queen Consort of Belgium; she's in Turkey as part of the Belgian delegation along with defence minister and foreign minister.

An in production KE in the background.

"Based on". Bukovel is mainly against GNSS because they made it against Russians. No reason to doubt they updated the system for their own possible needs.

Minotaur was a real claimed system placed on a vismodded BTR-60 to look "cool". System itself wasn't fake. It was made by a private company but wasn't incurred, probably only tested. Centaur is based on Ukrainian Bukovel and it is combat proven.

Anka-3 possible loadouts. Innermost ones are IWBs. https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-tusas-shows-anka-iii-ucav-s-loadouts

MKE's RATO variants. These will be invaluable again for large one way drones.