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It's hard to imagine SDF holding all of the land in the south in the long term even if they do end up taking it. There is no Kurdistan to be created in those regions with the Kurdish population being so low in those regions as far as I know. The Kurdish minority is significant only in some areas...

With the assignments Trump is doing, I would expect there to be serious problems with the US in the next 4 years, due to PKK, Israel-Hamas, or Greece or any other reason they can drum up. Hopefully the F110 engine can be procured in the background and they can be satisfied making a big show of...

Turkey was not on the verge of bankruptcy. The problem was high inflation, not a balance of payments crisis. Things would have to be really weird for a country to become bankrupt with such a low debt to GDP ratio.

Necessarily so I’m afraid as that is part of the dictionary definition. Regarding military aid, the countries that need aid are the most likely to get a TB-2 as it is cheaper than Anka. The United States does the practice of giving military aid to be used with American private military companies...

I know somewhat off-topic but I am really tired of reading inane stuff like this. Nepotism would be favoring a company without regard to its merits. Ordering from successful companies and allowing them to export is not nepotism but exactly how it should be. Besides the difficulties Baykar faced...

Any source for the last two claims?

The news that Turkey will explore oil and gas in Somalian waters has upset certain countries a lot and it is their extensions within Turkey that object, ostensibly due to security concerns which is of course nonsense. Security of the homeland did not rely on those two frigates and natural...

Is there no project to make amphibious assault wholly unmanned? An unmanned LST-like ship carrying unmanned IFVs would be a great idea as the initial taking of a bridgehead is one of the riskiest of all combat situations, so a great candidate for becoming unmanned.

I am sure Germans wish they could feel as comfortable as you imagine they do.

I think they are just testing flight stability and fly-by-wire system with the munition right now. Especially with the munition carried on only one side in an unbalanced configuration this inherently unstable form flew pretty well. There will be lots of other trials for munition carried in IWB...

Do they mean Turkey is cooperating with PKK against YPG? Turkey suffered slander of all kinds from Greeks, Armenians, and the PKK over decades but I think it’s the first time we are hearing this. This could mean Syrian branch is rebelling against PKK HQ which would be a wild scenario.

It's interesting that they designate range as 280+ km still even though it's apparently much longer. Either there is an imported subcomponent or, much more likely, we want to export this without an obstacle from MTCR to friendly countries such as Azerbaijan.

Agreed on that point. I also find Erdogan to be tactless with quite an abrasive style, especially according to European standards. The point stands however that him being elegant would not change the sanctions. Putting the blame of all of European absurdities on Erdogan's communication style is...

He said Germany did not criticize when Israel is committing a genocide because Germany committed a genocide against Jews in the past. I find this to be obviously true. But even if he said nice things for sensitive German ears, it wouldn’t improve the situation because, again, Germany is pro-PKK...

You still seem to be under the delusion that what Erdoğa said - rightfully - on that trip had anything to do with the German embargo. Germans are acting this way because the Greens support terrorism. Those sanctions all stem from fundamental differences on important topics, not something someone...

This is pretty good content. I learned things about I-class that I didn't know before. I didn't understand why he said this ship is not built for anti-submarine warfare, though. That is obviously not the reason for existence of this ship, but he reached that conclusion after saying active sonar...

Sounds a bit derivative of Iron Dome.

Again, it’s not about cheaping out but distributing the risk according to the capabilities of the platform. American stealth bombers are much more expensive but they still often use smart bombs like HGK. There will definitely be a SEAD/DEAD stage at the beginning with the best platforms and...

Yep, I am pretty serious. If you "give it heaviest missile it can carry with the longest range" you will run out of SOM missiles pretty fast. In war time stocks get depleted and you have to make heavier use of the cheaper and less smart munition. Sure, Anka-3 needs to be capable of using SOM as...

What’s the point of Anka-3 carrying a Som-J? Being a stealth platform it can already get close enough to the target to use a variant of MK-82 whereas even Phantoms can fire SOM-J from 250+ km. We will be running out of expensive missiles like SOM quickly in a war and we will have to utilize the...