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No real alternatives. There was talk about Su-35. But that would be a maintenance nightmare and even bigger compatibility nightmare.

Estonia Selects Blue Spear Anti-Ship Missile for Coastal Batteries Estonian Centre for Defence Investment (ECDI) has signed a contract with Proteus Advanced Systems Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) and ST...

Arrow-3 itself in Azerbaijan is useless for Israel. Early warning radars could be useful. It should be used vs. high value targets. Even Russians could not jam anything in Syria. That indeed can be a problem in heavy air defence areas. I think it would be good to buy Delilah for Azerbaijan.

The answer is simple: both are superpowers.

100% fake. Arrow-3 designed against medium range ballistic missiles (1000-3000 km range), while both Iran and Armenia can attack entire Azerbaijan with tactical ballistic missiles. Plus it needs US approval as noted here.

Ballistic missiles can't replace air force. Air force like Israeli or Turkish can make 15,000 combat sorties a month. That's 30,000 tons of bombs at least. Obviously Iran cant have 30,000 ballistic missiles. Even 3000 is too much. In same time even 1000 ballistic missiles are good deterrence...

Fortunately there are major differences: 1) Hitler built autarkic economy. Modern Turkish economy is very export oriented. 2) Hitler annexed territories, then started wars. Erdogan has not annexed a single inch so far and did not start any war in nearly 20 years of his rule. Putin's Russia is...

All we know about S-500 that it looks like old Soviet S-300V. No any information, no any tests. Unlike Russian and Chinese monsters like Smerch, MLRS is very compact, very fast reloading, modular, with very good mobility. You can load 12 GMLRS ER rockets with 150 km range and pinpoint...

Gorshkov has modern air defence (AESA radars + active homing missiles), long range cruise missiles (Kalibr) and supersonic antiship missiles (Onyx). All that in relatively small displacement - 5400 t.

Main battle tank - Leopard 2A7 with Trophy APS. Self P. Artillery - Pzh 2000 Rocket Artillery - MLRS Armored Vehicles - Puma IFV, Boxer APC Anti air vehicles - Iron Dome, Patriot PAC3 MSE, THAAD Attack Helicopters - Apache Longbow Attack aircraft - F-35 Fighter aircraft - F-22 Bombers -...

The difference between most of modern firearms (whether bullpup or classic) is not big and largely matter of taste. My personal favorite is AUG. Super compact and pleasant to fire.

Neither bullpup of convectional design have decisive advantage over another. So both have a future. I believe that standard infantry firearm should not be longer than M4 - 84 cm. Because modern combat is largely urban. This leaves you with 37 cm barrel which is close to minimum possible...

The red square is just bow sonar (bow sonar's shell more correctly).

Sea Breaker test.

Its called dorsal fin. Early P-51D had stability issues. Thats why they got it:

Yom Kippur war involved large tank to tank battles.

Compact layout allows Russian tanks to have good armor in small weight. The disadvantages are: 1) Low gun elevation and depression angles. That means tank can not use effectively terrain cover and often needs to expose itself. 2) fuel tanks and rounds around driver and in side turret ring. 3)...

I will debunk several myths, then will write more detalized: Myth #1. Russian tanks are lighter this less armored than Western. In fact usually Russian tanks had better armor despite their weight (that advantage was usually compensated by better Western guns and ammo though). Myth #2. Auto...

First pics of Challenger 3 with Trophy APS: Rear mount of radars is unusual: