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Yup. Our hand was burnt once re Emirati connection. Turkish munitions on Emirati aircraft were used against us. And I fear we will have worse problems as well. Will Baykar employees still be in Addis Ababa under their contract giving support to Ethiopian AF while it's striking Somali positions...

How many months before we see Emirati munitions on Ethiopian TB2, Akıncı and Chinese ones?

January 23, 2024: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander Holds an Off-Camera, On-The-Record Press Briefing on the Ukraine Defense Contact Group Meeting "Question: ...So the United Kingdom tried to send over a minesweeper, and that was blocked by...

Which party voted what for Sweden's NATO ascension. For, against, abstained, not joined the assembly. Red is the ruling coalition, blue is the opposition parties. Most of CHP didn't join, those who joined voted for. AKP singlehandedly passed it, not one MHP MP voted against it, HDP mostly didn't...

Yes, that's why they no longer carry B61s but AGM-86s.

Live assembly. https://tv.tbmm.gov.tr/

Really doubt it's nukes. Reaction time doesn't matter when there aren't any deployed fighter squadrons in Incirlik. In this day and age, US won't increase them in Turkey. Aviano is only 1.5 hours away anyhow. They would rather deploy B-52's from UK and Rota than working with us on this.

Let's gooo

So far*. Nothing to suggest that same kind of escalation won't happen between Iran and Turkey in the near future. When they did those attacks on our bases, they were also lobbing small rockets into US bases. Now they are sending Scuds into those American bases. What's to say we're not next? I'm...

They did rocket attacks against our bases in Iraq in the past. Those were small attacks and didn't result in big damages, but clearly they have the capability to go bigger.

That opens another can of worms though. Why showcase the twin launcher as standard? We'll probably see it on Istanbul soon and know for certain.

Is that a double launcher? Should we understand that İ Class carries 2x2 torpedos instead of the standard 2x3? Design is different than what Mir USV used during its torpedo test. Any ideas?, @Anmdt

As in deliveries to squadrons? No way.

"Bahçeli announces support for Sweden's NATO membership" "In practice, Turkey has already agreed to Sweden's membership of NATO because it did not object to Sweden's participation in the Steadfast Defender exercise, which is due to start in September, without confirmed membership. The Turkish...

Don't doubt it. Very likely that this is a hit piece to stove off the rumours by bringing them out to light. They did the same again last year, brought some tiny rumors to public, got people talking and those rumours died down after.

They would rather hand Syria to Russia and Iran than to work with us.

Simple numbers to drive the point home. In the year of 2024, we currently only have 200 tanks (160 M60TM, 40 Leo2T1) that can hope to survive against any ATGM from the last 40 years on a frontal attack.

General outlook to 2024, sadly Turkish only.

Yes, at 92 million USD. 2026 for İmece 2 and 2027 for İmece 3 completion also given. Wonder if launch costs are part of the project budget. İmece-1 launch cost figures are not public, but per SpaceX' publicly available data it may have cost as low as 4-5 million dollars.

So that they will reciprocate and won't hinder our work in their countries. Tale as old as time.