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Welcome To The Jungle: Ukrainian T-64B1M Tanks In DR Congo
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Ukrainian-delivered armament is prevalent in the inventories of numerous militaries across the world, and the country remains a go-to source for nations that seek to...
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Business In The Baltics: Latvia Expresses Interest In The Bayraktar TB2
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansBaykar Savunma recently drew attention after a Latvian delegation headed by Minister of Defence Artis Pabriks paid an official visit to the producer of the Bayraktar...
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Disaster At Hand: Documenting Afghan Military Equipment Losses Since June 2021
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans in collaboration with COIN andJakub Janovsky. The United States' controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan has left it teetering at the edge of an abyss as the...
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Arsenal of the Future: The Akıncı And Its Loadout
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Bayraktar Akıncı is set to introduce a number of novel capabilities to the field of unmanned aerial warfare when it enters service with the Turkish Air Force...
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Blast From The Past: North Korea’s Whacky 1930s Japanese Railcars
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansNorth Korea's State Railway regularly flaunts its modernisation efforts by the unveiling of modernised rolling stock and revitalised train lines. In reality, billions...
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Shoot-And-Scoot: Armenia Designs New Lightweight MRL
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Certainly no branch of Armenia's military suffered as severe materiel losses during the 2020 Nagorno-Karbakh War as its artillery and rocket forces. With the air...
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An Unmanned Firefighter: The Bayraktar TB2 Joins The Call
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkey is currently battling a series of deadly forest fires that are raging through the southern part of the country. With high temperatures and strong winds...
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Esoteric Armour: Turkmenistan’s T-72UMG Tanks
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Like many Central Asian countries, Turkmenistan operates an exotic fleet of armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) it inherited from the Soviet Union or purchased from...
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Turkmen Tucanos: Turkmenistan Unveils A-29B Attack Aircraft
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkmenistan has embarked on an ambitious re-equipment programme with the aim of modernising its air force through the acquisition of various types of new combat and...
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Iranian Mohajer-6 Drones Spotted In Ethiopia
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansA sudden violent outbreak of civil war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has thrown the nation into turmoil. After years of uneasy peace with its northern...
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An Analyst’s Perspective: Cicilline and Bilirakis’ Turkish Drone Letter Rebuked
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Much attention has been devoted to Turkey's rise to a global drone power in the past several years. While some argue that Turkish developments in this field have been...
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Eyes Over Bulgarian Skies: From MiG-25s To Bayraktar TB2s
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Military analysis circles have lately been abuzz with speculation suggesting that Bulgaria is eying the acquisition of at least six Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat...
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The Taliban Air Force - An Inventory Assessment
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The list only includes captured Afghan aircraft of which photographic or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of aircraft captured is...
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Missed Opportunities: Ethiopia’s MALE UAV Programme
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans As new information on the delivery of Iranian Mohajer-6 UCAVs to Ethiopia continues to come to light, their deployment to the country has yet to bring about a...
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Tried and Trusted: Kazakhstan Acquires The Y-8
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Chinese Y-8 transport aircraft is unlikely to receive an award for the originality of its design – it being a 1970s reverse engineered variant of the Soviet An-12...
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The Israel Connection - Ethiopia’s Other UAVs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Ethiopia recently caught headlines for its acquisition of Mohajer-6 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) from Iran. Historically a close ally of Israel and the...
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Black Sea Hunters: Bayraktar TB2s In Ukrainian Navy Service
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Having proved itself in combat thrice over, the Bayraktar TB2 is quickly becoming an international export success. In addition to entering service with a number of...
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Tankovy Busters: Russian Su-25TK Attack Aircraft In Ethiopian Service
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Su-25 has earned its stripes as a rugged close air support aircraft capable of delivering a wide variety of ordnance while withstanding a significant beating...
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Ship Lore: The Story of Bangladesh’s Castle Class Corvettes
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Images of the devastating explosions in Beirut in August 2020 shocked the world as stunning incompetence and negligence in the storage of 2.750 tonnes of ammonium...
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A New Chapter In Unmanned Warfare: The Bayraktar Akıncı Enters Active Service
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans İstikbal göklerdedir. Göklerini koruyamayan uluslar, yarınlarından asla emin olamazlar - The future is in the skies. Because nations that cannot protect their...
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