Problem is we need MANPADS and mobile air defences before a conflict. Takes time to train personnel. At this point, we don’t have many options other than the black market (which I doubt has the capacity to supply a sufficient number)
Afghanistan is taking a lot of risk here. We do not even have basic air defence. Their crappy drones will be a major obstacle for us in a conflict.
We need to acquire MANPADS asap but I think it will be hard to find a seller
That’s incorrect. At this point, Iran has acknowledged 2 deaths and several injured (video evidence). 1 Afghan has been martyred.
Iran is scared and now they can’t go hard with Afghanistan. They’ve made enemies with all their neighbours. Afghanistan can easily support a Baluch insurgency.
We...
ISIS and Tajik insurgency is largely finished off. It has become a very low intensity conflict. Nothing going on with Pakistan. Their issue is the TTP. Occasionally some border clashes but both governments agree that cooperation is mutually important.
you see a lot of border clashes because our...
Don’t be ridiculous. They tested a 10kt in the 90s. Today they have one of the most evolved nuclear weapons program after the U.S. and Russia.
There is a ban on nuclear testing, thus no country is (except NK) actually testing their nukes anymore. However, once you’ve detonated one successfully...
Tension is very high between Afghanistan and Iran. Irans president threatened Afghanistan with consequences if water supply wasn’t restored.
currently, Iran is getting less than agreed water from the Helmand river due to a severe drought in the area. Iran insists that in this case all of...
Breaking! Turkiye’s micro launcher (100kg to 300km orbit) will launch by the end of 2023! - Ismael Demir
Turkiye is accelerating its space ambitions as I advocated earlier 😍
the altitude will be increased to 400km later (probably in 2024).
This is really important developments!
Indeed 2nd tier companies should step up. Titra is one example, they just exported their 200kg capacity cargo helicopter to Malaysia.
the benefit of Baykar doing it is that it would instantly become an export success
Next on Baykar's agenda should be to continue it's expansion into the civilian market by development a cargo drone with a capacity of 1-2 tonnes and long-range.
Bulgarian Dronamics has developed the UAV below for Cargo transportation with 3.000km range and 350kg capacity. It promised $5 per...
We don’t know the exact contract terms. Maybe the contract is only for the UCAV with training/munition/customised hardware being part of a separate contract.
I noticed some sources on twitter speculating that the 100 mUSD was per system.
In any case, Turkiye’s defence industry is doing what it...
A correction as most people seem to misunderstand the export contract.
3 Anka systems were exported in Phase I. Each Anka system consists of 3 Anka UCAVs. Hence 9 Anka UCAVs were exported to Malaysia in Phase I
Firet all these new CHP election accounts were polling experts. Now they’ve all become economy experts without understanding the basics.
give it a rest guys
KK is toast and Ogan is irrelevant.
KK and high young voter base has already been defeated. He will not be able to mobilize them all again for a round two. Turn out rate will be below round one.
Round two will be a humiliation for KK.