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So far I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary....

How does a 50 billion MOU loan package (from Turkey ofc) sound? Turkey have the (projected) purse, you get the alleviation. That is about the going rate China got for certain assured returns and insider trading. Generally wont be worth it for any other country that has a more basic balance...

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/uk-to-deploy-carrier-group-in-indian-ocean-11606883222339.html The UK navy is to deploy a carrier group to the Indian Ocean next year, one of several European countries to announce such moves in recent times against the backdrop of China’s increasing...

RIP to French president Valery Giscard D'Estaing. @Vergennes

Scorpene is pretty successful program @Vergennes

The earliest contacts with Russian empire were not good either. There was a number of chukchi and yupik wars with Russian settlers, traders and forces sent there....it didnt go well for Russians (even with numbers on their side) for many years till they sent in much more numbers and turned...

Brahmos has been brought up a few times in last couple Indonesian high level visits to India. In fact export to Philippines looks like it was all set to be completed till they hit funding issue on their side (disappointingly)...

Hehe, I have had the fortune to play with baby elephant before.....I hope every animal-friend of us get a chance at some point... Please post all your wildlife vids, stories and pet pics etc as you would like to here....

Uh oh, @Paro might get too excited.... upload from another site (old one died):

According to information published by the Defesa Aerea Naval website on November 26, 2020, the Brazilian navy has reclassified its PHM Atlântico (A140) landing platform helicopter ship as a multipurpose aircraft carrier under the name of NAM Atlântico. The ship is now able to operate with...

Throwback footage to 2015 of INS Trikand in the area: https://turkishnavy.net/2015/10/05/ins-trikand-in-istanbul/

Handled a thousand times better than Canada, thats for sure. We don't even know when we are getting our vaccines available....the govt literally gives the bureaucratic waffle when asked: https://defencehub.live/threads/canada-politics.1313/#post-30487 We also have zero vaccine production...

It is better if you just bring anything against forum rules to my attention rather than throw mud on mud back. There is zero-tolerance policy to ad-hominem (religion or otherwise), just so everyone is clear. Please attack the message, not the messenger. It is a heated topic of course so...

Yeah but that was more done in hindsight by Virgil to make the "Aeneid" more appealing. Virgil (and Romans of his time) looked down upon the Greeks (who they had now conquered + dominated since battle of corinth)...somewhat severely. They also recognised the massive Greek soft power on Roman...