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This is because acting against Turkey is basically a free action with no bad consequences. Turkey needs to make it more expensive. This woman is visiting a Russian client state during a highly anti-Russian political climate. Just arrange it so that she gets photographed in Armenia with Russian...

Italian Bergamini class for example is 6,700 tons and has a 16-cell VLS for 16 Aster missiles. In the French navy, AFAIK, the most air-defense capable ships are one with 32 VLS and one with 48 VLS for the same number of missiles as Aster missiles are not quadpacked. The Belharra classes France...

According to Ibrahim Sunnetci, the original Siper missile (not the one that is Hisar-RF + booster) will be quadpacked. This original missile that is without a booster is supposed to have a range of 150 km in the land version so the naval version should be comparable. He also said that the Siper...

AI winning dogfights is already starting to happen. There was this bit of news from the US where in a DARPA event a private company's AI beat an experienced F-16 pilot in a simulated dogfight. I imagine this AI system uses reinforcement learning and created a huge training dataset from existing...

Meh, this latest amendment they are trying to introduce is pretty watered down. It seems the administration officials had a chat with these senators in the background so they retreated from a strict "no jets" to two conditions that seem digestible to the administration without losing face to...

How much of a chance Kargi would have against a good air defense system like the Patriot? I wonder if there is something in the way such a UAV loiters and attacks that makes it hard to detect or shoot down. Or maybe the air defense might find it hard to deal wit saturation with swarms of these.

This latest package seems like a feeler for the larger F-16 purchase. If this was only about getting the F-35 funds back, they would have purchased something else (like cargo planes or AWACS) that would not require an additional large sum of money. It seems Air Force wants to hedge against the...

There are 18 missiles ready to fire per battery (3 launching vehicles with 6 missiles each) and 18 backups. The launchers are aligned as 2 rows of 3 on each vehicle which is why it seems there are only 3 missiles in that photo.

Is it known how many Hisar-O and Siper batteries are going to be taken into inventory? I remember in the original air defense purchase studies done a couple of decades ago, it was said at least 8-10 batteries would be needed for the long-range system. I guess the numbers will be in the tens now...

I think there is a distinction here. He says "250.000 Säulen" which is to say 250,000 feeder pillars, not charging stations. He says "Ladestation" when he means to say a charging station. Hopefully a proper charging station will have many feeder pillars, especially since many of the existing...

No problem, I know German.

That number still sounds too high to me. I would like to see the link if you have it.

If you mean 250,000 charging stations, I think that number would be way too high. There are about 13,000 oil stations in Turkey right now. Considering that many parking areas will also have high or low speed chargers to charge the cars overnight, I think 1,500 is fine as a start. I think most...

That's great news about Gökdoğan. But we didn't even have Phase 1 in serial production yet. Are they going to start serial production with Phase 2?

I really hope this is the case. The Istif class looks like excellent light frigates but 16 air defense missiles would be a bit too bare-bones.

I hope by joint you mean the country so our IQ average can increase.

The work DeltaV is doing is extremely promising and Roketsan is also excellent. I am quite optimistic about our space program.

Many of those "revolutions" were marginal incidents as you might infer from the number being so high and of course they are not taught in our history books. Turkish history is long and eventful and if we were to learn about every insignificant skirmish started by every minor nation, we would not...

The majority of crimes for which execution by impalement was reserved was non-Muslims giving an affront to Islam in some form. It would be natural to have non-Muslims get more of that penalty statistically. But this is a conversation of fringe importance akin to the fact that while lethal...

Execution by impalement, while a ghastly punishment, was reserved for the most serious crimes and applied to the whole empire, not just to the Greek minority. Greek children were not regularly kidnapped. You are probably thinking of the "Devsirme" system of recruiting boys of 15 to 20 years of...