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Hope is all we can do in 2023 Turkey. Wake up call to all, we are in the shit. Coming to an air force base near you in 2037, with Korean engines!

Let's just hope that the possible deal with Pakistan is rock solid and gives more than few tens of pages to Pakistan's relationship with China re our IP rights; and we have guarantees from the US to not kill the entire thing. Too early to say anything at this stage.

Nigeria uses TB2 for one.

Possibly changing of rules of engagement could be in order. We did the same in 2015. Then shot down the Russian jet some time later.

Yeah, I figured. My biggest worry is that once Poland is unleashed, we won't be able to stop you guys before you have Lukashenko's head on a spike.

Hopefully, but forces incurred to the vehicle related to a 155mm gun are presumably much larger compared to MLRS. It will need to be changed, it will need to have new tests, lose time, months, maybe up to a year. Azerbaijan can will wait for us to handle it, would Brazil in an open tender...

Well, that's ominous.

Found it. Linking it here for future reference if we might need it. http://amtistanbul.com/ Some interesting designs caught my eye like the trimaran USV. http://amtistanbul.com/AMT-16-UNMANED-TRIRMARAN.html

I don't disagree per se, and the way the game is set it's theirs to lose, but just simply removing French won't achieve that. Niger doesn't have an industry, only mines. They import food at bulk. Russians can't give them knowhow and credits, and we saw first hand how Chinese credits can choke a...

Who's AMT? That's an F-14 landing. Maybe we can offer it to Iran lol.

Brazil recently had some issues with German government regarding some sales. Yavuz using a MAN chassis is not good news. But, coupled with the M109 support that was awarded a week ago, this would be a great prize.

Algerian media claims Emirati hand in the coup. We know that Wagner and UAE are very close. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230729-algeria-newspaper-indicates-uae-role-in-niger-coup/ I like the French getting shafted like everyone else, naturally, kind of fun to watch the neocolonialist...

That didn't take long. They published a communique supporting the ousted Bazoum government.

Watch that idiot be expelled, should be funny. Website seems to be taking its time loading up when checking notifications and posting. I also had a cloudflare error yesterday. Server issues or on my end? Attack?

Last 5 years notwithstanding, France will need to act. Either in Sahel or in Europe. My actual concern is, with ECOWAS threats, will we see Turkish weapons on both sides of a conflict. And was selling our weapons to countries now in bed with Wagner is a good idea? TB2s and Hürkuş are one thing...

I'm not an expert on anything, just a student of everything :) I did mean chaos during the "change of power", yes. I do agree with you on all parts. Coups were a net negative on Turkey. But they were bloodless, for the most part, and I do mean in modern history. If we go for Ottoman times after...

I was just about to post the news about Aselsan signing an EO deal with Roketsan for 11.9 million and was gonna say hopefully it's for KMC. This is great news. Now that we have local EO, number of KMCs in service will greatly increase. It was less than 10.

Japanese militarist culture, especially after 1904 war, and growing from there until 1945 is usually overlooked. They didn't have coups, but army officers not liking a decision made by the civilian leadership and sometimes even high ranking generals, viewing the act as "unholy" for nation of...

This is true, but an absolute majority of them are old, and lack the new tech we have that makes the life of an artilleryman easy. There are efforts to modernize them, like Aselsan's modernization solutions for 60, 81 and 120mm mortars and these are now being inducted into the service. Just that...

Put in some investments, join the next civil war that will ensue in the next 5 years, kill few hundred locals, few hundred Wagner, blow some Pantsirs up, rinse and repeat. That seems to be the law of the land. Sad, but it is what it is.