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War is diplomacy continued. They have a tiny air force, but have been modernizing their air defence with Chinese help. They have a small but competent army and a large paramilitary force. Kosovo have a much smaller military and lacks armor and artillery save for some number of vehicle based...

Per German media, US is also considering leaving KFOR and pulling its troops from Kosovo. With an unstable and increasingly aggressive Serbia, times will be interesting again in the Balkans. Ideally we would like sides to just sit down and happily do business, but there might be a time in near...

Interesting news. Spanish Indra and Otokar signed a deal to collaborate on land systems. Wonder what'll come out of it.

Of course people always pick at things and search meanings. But it's also that Erdoğan is a tall man, and it's raining. He usually holds his own umbrella or it's held by one of his guards. Interesting times ahead, nonetheless. Looks like Zelensky cancelled his Saudi trip and will head back to...

Not with the current layout, no. "Raceways" here refer to launch positions. Port side positions overlap, one is for larger aircraft/higher MTOW requirements.

Director of Naval Forces Design Project Office Assoc. Prof. Dr. Colonel Uçar: "In this way, we have also determined the propulsion power and propulsion system that the ship will need. We have carried out multidimensional maritime analyses to ensure that our ship can operate even in the worst...

Per TAI GM, UAE is interested in Kaan, Hürkuş, a joint development of a different model based on Anka-III and T129 Atak. Fine for Hürkuş and T129, but I don't know how I feel about UAE joining Kaan or building a different UAV for Emirati needs where they would have full control over the platform.

I don't think P1 will fly any time soon and I believe P0 finished its flighttest schedule. Maybe they will unveil P1.

Repkon now also offers 105mm AP, APFSDS-T and HESH-T.

There's no Ukrainian security without Turkey and no peace can hold without Turkish backing. There was a reason why Zelensky specifically wanted Turkey to be a guarantor, why first and only talks were held in Istanbul and why Turkey and US would together undertake Kharkiv's rebuilding after the...

Nice catch: "What is interesting about the first shot of the Göksur HSS fired from the TCG Beykoz ship is that the long-range air defense system Siper's missile data link system was installed on the ship."

Oh you meant cruise missile, my bad. The ever illusive Gezgin will also be on the MIDLAS. We still haven't seen an image of it for nearly a decade though.

Roketsan GM mentioned the possibility. It is theoretically possible to put Tayfun in MIDLAS. "ROKETSAN General Manager Murat İKİNCİ pointed out that TAYFUN, which will be the first to enter the inventory in its land-to-land version, can be integrated into desired platforms and launched from...

I don't know about that. He's going to Turkey instead the same day Rubio is meeting Lavrov.

A quick rundown of the active point defence air defence systems in the works with 4 infographics. Aselsan Göksur and Roketsan Levent are vying for the big contract to be chosen for general use aboard all ships bigger than a FAC. Göker-D is the naval variant of the land based Göker. MKE 20mm gun...

Everybody at this stage knows my love of T625. But you can't beat bigger size, bigger capacity. A small container ship faced heavy seas and ran aground on in eastern Canada the other day with a possible danger of ship breaking apart. 2 CH-149 Cormorants, which is the RCAF SAR variant of the...

Finally, first Göksur live fire test of the missile. Looks like Beykoz is becoming the de facto test ship of the navy. Looks like it's the single cell variant, being tested on an angle, which must be its first ever naval test.

This might turn out to be pretty big. Emiratis losing in the Red Sea, Sudan and Somalia.

Per Infodefensa, a delegation from Colombian Air Force recently visited Baykar to learn about TB3. Colombia deals with narco guerillas for decades and they already operate some number of Hermes 450 and 900. To my knowledge however those drones are not armed and they want to have the option open...

We had Cold War, world economy wasn't fully liberal back then. China was a hellhole. It was a bit more complicated than that actually. We did have all those problems, we had them in 40s, we had them in 90s, and by how the economy is going forward for the last 5 years, we will have the same...