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Humble Beginnings - Turkish Airlines’ Ju 52s
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkish Airlines is one of the largest airlines in the world, flying to more destinations than any other carrier in the world. It operates a fleet of more than 350...
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Fighting The Tide: The Islamic State’s Desperate Attempts to Combat Coalition...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Starting in June 2014, Coalition airstrikes conducted on positions, vehicles and high-ranking members of the Islamic State have taken a heavy toll on the group....
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Russian AK-12 Assault Rifles In Service With Qatar
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Most of the Gulf countries are generally reticent when it comes to showing off their defence capabilities and recent acquisitions of military hardware. Although a...
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The Nurol Ejder 6x6: Turkey’s First Wheeled APC
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans From the barren deserts of Oman to the dense jungles of Malaysia: in this day and age Turkish wheeled armoured personnel carriers (APCs) operate in all corners of the...
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Strike Me Please: Armenia’s SAM Decoys
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans If any lessons can be drawn from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, they are bound to revolve around the stunning effiency of cheap...
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Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt: Turkey Engages PKK In Iraq
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans in cooperation with COIN_V2 In a renewed effort to flush out PKK fighters from their mountain hideouts close to the border with Turkey in Northern Iraq, the Turkish...
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Facing the Storm: The PKK’s DIY AA Guns
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Some 8 years years after its official retreat from Turkey, the PKK continues to wage guerrilla warfare and conduct infiltrations into Turkey from their mountainous...
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Mean, Green, And Unseen: Saudi Arabia’s BTR-3s
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansSaudi Arabia is well known for operating some of the most advanced military equipment currently on offer, including the M1A2S main battle tank (MBT) and the F-15SA...
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Novel Capabilities: Ukraine’s Vilkha MRL
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Ever since the takeover of Crimea by Russia and the outbreak of armed conflict in the Donbas region, Ukraine has launched an ambitious re-equipment programme to make...
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For Eternity’s Sake: The Story of BEA’s A300s
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans For everyone that ever landed at Istanbul Atatürk International Airport while sitting on the right hand side of the plane, the aircraft featured in header image...
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The Strazh BMPT - An Ukrainian Terminator
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The turn of the 21st century marked the start of a period of decay for Ukraine's military, with masses of military hardware facing early retirement while...
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Gaza Conflict: Hamas’ North Korean Arms
By Joost Oliemans and Stijn Mitzer On the 6th of May 2021, protests erupted in Jerusalem over a decision to evict Palestinian residents in favour of Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood...
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From Nu.D.40 to Bayraktar Akıncı: Demirağ’s Legacy
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Benden bu millet için bir șey istiyorsanız, en mükemmelini istemelisiniz. Madem ki bir millet tayyaresiz yaşayamaz, öyleyse bu yaşama vasıtasını başkalarının...
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A Winged Oryx - Bayraktar TB2s Over Qatar
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Bayraktar TB2 has gained a formidable reputation for its role in deciding the fate of nations and enemy offensives from the skies of Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh and...
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Back From the Dead: Ukraine’s Tor SAMs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans As Ukraine continues to build up its military forces to face the ever present threat of Russian interference in its Eastern regions, it has gradually managed to...
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A Rare Species: Cuban David Infantry Mobility Vehicles In Service With Angola
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansCuba is widely known for its former leader Fidel Castro, a surprisingly enduring devotion to communism and its world-renowned cigars, exporting the latter two to...
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Dragons In The Caucasus: Chinese WM-80 MRLs Of Armenia
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The casual reader may be forgiven for thinking that Armenia's armed forces operate solely Soviet-legacy weaponry inherited from the USSR, or armament received from...
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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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Monsters Of Desperation: The YPG’s Sturmpanzers
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Relegated to the annals of history by the most of the world since roughly 1918, the YPG on the other hand remains an active user of so-called Sturmpanzers:...
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Queen Of The Skies: Turkey’s Boeing 747-8I BBJ Presidential Transport
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkey is emerging as an increasingly important actor in world politics, taking on an assertive international role and with it a growing political weight....
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