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Doesn't really track tbh. Syria is upgrading from Toyotas and as you said regional neighbours are helping with financing because we need a stable Syria, they are dealing with ISIS cells everyday. M113s and ACVs are ancient, but they are still active vehicles in active use. And the 8x8s and...

After Amazon and Cobra II, Syria also started operating Nurol NMS, and with 7.62 Sarp. Syria is now operating armored vehicles from all three major Turkish 4x4 builders. Makes sense as these firms are one of the best in delivering in time. We'll probably see a FNSS venture into the country in...

Huh, MMT-76 in Georgian service.

Because it would be contrary to how any business works. Business seeks business to make money. It really isn't. AFAIK Sedef currently only have 2 Istifs it's building. İzmit already launched and is set to be delivered by mid 2027, while Karadeniz is set to be delivered by 2029 at the latest...

I don't doubt the Pakistani prowess, but we should remember that "simulated air combat" is not a 1 v 1 free for all. As in, just like land exercises, there are plans to be tried and tested; there are prior set agreements on the type of engagement and rule sets. Engagements are done in that very...

There have been no official public confirmation that a capability increase will be sought after for the MLU. It probably will be, but nothing so far.

They still need money for the shipyards, as seen by Sedef courting Belgians to build Damen designed Belgian ships in Turkey. This barely ever happens. I'd think they evaluated shipyards screaming for money and navy's need for frigates asap and decided on a course of action that works for everyone.

They are seemingly LMSBII ships 2 and 3. We really mastered the tiny Ada. What a great design.

It's all speculation of course. We can guess that Indonesia and shipyards wanted soon to be ready ships to be delivered. Qataris are financing it so Indonesia would get 2 ships in 2 years and shipyards would get a nice billion in the same time frame along with more orders from navy. Knockback...

Only naval "shipyards" we have are the Istanbul Naval shipyard in Pendik and Gölcük for submarines. Rest are all commercial. It's a tight rope. For the Indonesian deal, looks like they found the correct compromise. F-519 and F-521, first and last ships of the second Istif batch will be...

That's not really a thing. Noone save for China have enough state owned shipyards for its own needs and a big navy. We know from the Istif to Indonesia spat that shipyards are unhappy with financing and want more.

Malaysian Queen is in Istanbul for Malaysian LMSBII's first ship launch. In the background, Future Istanbul class ships F516 İzmir and F519 Akdeniz can be seen as we as two new type landing craft. All four are being built by Anadolu Shipyard. İzmir is basically ready for pre-acceptance tests...

I really don't like the livery. But one thing people are missing on this is the reg. 25-04. This aircraft was already incurred into service last year, probably as a preliminary registry, but still.

And the second confirmed air kill of Akıncı.

Shouldn't have done it, but oh well; it's already out there.

There were no FPVs in 2016 save for tiny homegrown capabilities. These guys are foraying into open space after a beach landing. It's training for yesterday's war. Which is not a bad thing directly, because war is fluid; but we are once again are slow to follow up with the times.

We have a video of a Serhat counter battery radar being destroyed 5 meters next to a Kangal from last year by a drone. Stuff gets blown up, it's war.

Nowadays all big exercises of ours are like that; because they are also used as large sales demos. Visitors and participants from 50+ countries came for Efes 26. Re completeness, that's the nice thing about this kind of architecture; nothing needs to be "complete". Going by this entirely for...

Coming along nicely.

All those are clearly images taken from google and altered with ai.