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Fighting Attrition: A Look Inside a Damascus Armour Repair Facility
By Stijn MitzerThe following photos were taken during a visit of a Russian journalist to a small armour repair facility in the suburbs of Damascus in June 2017. While already several years old – with...
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The Victory Day Parade That Everyone Forgot
By Stijn Mitzer Transnistria, or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) as it is officially called, is a breakaway state situated between Moldova and Ukraine that has largely escaped the world's...
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Inside the Rebel Wave of Smash N’ Grab Raids That Plagued Idlib
By Stijn Mitzer A video uploaded by the National Front for Liberation shows off spectacular drone footage as fighters of the National Front for Liberation (NLF) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fight...
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Caspian Amphibians - Azerbaijan’s Elusive Fleet Of Beriev Amphibious Aircraft
By Stijn Mitzer The Caspian Sea is well known for being the world's largest inland body of water, its vast oil and gas reserves and, of course, the Caspian Sea Monster... Wait – the Caspian what!? The...
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The Forgotten Deterrent: Kuwait’s Luna-M ’FROG-7’ Artillery Rockets
By Stijn Mitzer What do you acquire when you want a weapon system to deter your neighbours without plunging the region into an unnecessary arms race at the same time? That is the question the...
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Giants Of The Skies - The An-124 in Libyan Service
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Libyan Civil War has had a devastating impact on the country's civilian aviation sector, and its two giant An-124 cargo aircraft have not eluded their fair share...
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Aftermath: Lessons Of The Nagorno-Karabakh War Are Paraded Through The...
By Stijn Mitzerand Joost Oliemans If Azerbaijan starts a war, Armenian tanks will go as far as Baku. (Artsrun Hovhannisyan, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, September 2020) In a...
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This Was Gaddafi’s Personal Italian High-Speed Train
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans An article covering trains on Oryx Blog? Yes, you're not mistaken. We know what you are thinking: Where are the tanks, aircraft or ships? But actually, trains are...
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Made in Armenia: Turkmenistan operates the K6-92 SMG
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe Republic of Armenia isn't particularly well known for its military industry, and its arms exports have hitherto remained undocumented. Despite being the host of a...
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Al-Watiya - From A Libyan Super Base To Turkish Air Base
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Al-Watiya. An airbase few had ever heard of until it became a symbol in the fight of the internationally-recognised government of Libya (GNA) against Khalifa...
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The Writing Of: The Armed Forces of North Korea, On The Path Of Songun
By Joost Oliemans and Stijn Mitzer When the Cold War ended, and the Iron Curtain was lifted, an era commenced of which the unprecedented spread of information is perhaps its most defining...
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Out Now! Our Book: North Korea’s Armed Forces, On The Path Of Songun
By Joost Oliemans and Stijn Mitzer The DPRK. Shrouded in mysticism and secrecy, the nation represents an absolute unicum for the military analyst. No other country in the world manages to attract so...
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Trench Warfare Revisited: Armenia’s Indigenous Remote-Controlled Armament
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Armenia's small population and limited economic means force the country to come up with creative solutions to address the obsolescence of its military hardware and to...
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Qatar’s Purchase of BP-12A SRBMs: A Guppy Sprouts Teeth
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Qatar surprised friends and foes alike by parading Chinese BP-12A short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) during its national day parade on the 15th of December 2017....
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Houthi Rebels Unveil Host of Weaponry, Compounding Drone and Missile Threat
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Amidst a conflict that has by now outlived the comforts of its international participants, Yemen's Houthi rebels claim to have developed new missiles and drones to...
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Disaster at Tarhuna: When Haftar Lost Another Stronghold In Crushing Defeat...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans in collaboration with MENA_Conflictand COIN_TRForces loyal to Libya's internationally-recognised government (GNA) captured the city of Tarhuna on the 5th of June...
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Small But Deadly - Turkish Fast Attack Craft In Service With Turkmenistan
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkmenistan almost certainly isn't the first nation that comes to your mind when you consider the naval balance in the Caspian Sea. Nonetheless, a continued naval...
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Tracking Arms Transfers By The UAE, Russia, Jordan And Egypt To The Libyan...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansA comprehensive catalogue of weaponry and equipment supplied to the LNA can be found further down in this article. Since the renewal of a civil war in Libya in 2014 a...
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Ivory Coast’s Su-25s - The Sharks Won’t Bite Again
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansSaturday, the 6th of November 2004. Two Su-25UBs of the Force Aérienne de la Côte d'Ivoire (FACI) strafe a French peacekeeper camp in Bouaké. As sudden as the...
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