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The Militiamen’s UCAV: Mohajer-6s in Iraq
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The profileration of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) has accelerated since the turn of the century, with many countries either already possessing armed drones...
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The Tigray Defence Forces - Documenting Its Heavy Weaponry
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans A war that broke out between the Ethiopian government and its northern Tigray region has thrown the country into turmoil. Armed conflict has been raging since...
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Made In China: Ethiopia’s Fleet Of Chinese UAVs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansIn addition to operating a number of UAVs sourced from Israel and even Iran, at least one more country has delivered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Ethiopia in...
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List Of Aircraft And Helicopters Captured by Taliban Forces At Kabul Airport
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans This list aims to comprehensively catalogue the Afghan aircraft captured at Kabul International Airport (IAP) but rendered disabled by U.S. forces. United States...
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From Friend To Foe: Ethiopia’s Chinese AR2 MRLs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The 2010s were a time of significant upheaval for the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF). Within less than a decade, ageing weaponry dating from the Cold War...
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List Of Aircraft Losses Of The Tigray War (2020-2021)
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansA war that broke out between the Ethiopian government and its northern Tigray region has thrown the country into turmoil. Armed conflict has been raging since November...
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Lifting The Veil - Pakistan’s Chinese UCAVs
By Farooq Bhai in collaboration with Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The presence of Chinese unmanned aerial combat vehicles (UCAVs) in the ranks of the Pakistani Armed Forces has long been the subject...
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Guided Deterrence: Pakistan’s Fatah MRLs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Pakistan conducted a successful test of a newly-developed guided multiple rocket launcher (MRL) designated the Fatah-1 on the 24th of August 2021. [1] The test, which...
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Iranian Loitering Munitions Used Against Militants In Iraqi Kurdistan #Shorts
A video released on the 9th of September 2021 shows an Iranian loitering munition impacting a target near Choman, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of an ongoing offensive by Iran in the...
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Israeli Arms In Ethiopia: The Thunder IMV
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The time when the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) almost solely relied on aging Soviet armament mixed in with some of their more modern Russian brethens is...
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Tigray Defence Forces Display Surface-To-Air Missiles #Shorts
Images from a music video released in early September this year show Tigray forces handling S-75 and S-125 surface-to-air missiles (SAM) seized from Ethiopian government forces. Although captured as...
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Go Ballistic: Tigray’s Forgotten Missile War With Ethiopia and Eritrea
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The shock of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) must have been immense when a Chinese-made M20 short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) impacted the flight line...
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List Of Coalition UAV Losses During The Yemeni Civil War
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThis list aims to catalogue visually confirmed Coalition unmanned aerial aircraft (UAV) losses during the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen launched in March...
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Forget The A-10: The Bayraktar Akıncı Flying Tank Destroyer Has Arrived
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Bin atlı akınlarda çocuklar gibi şendik - A thousand cavaliers, we were cheerful like children during the raids (Akıncılar, by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı) The A-10...
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Postcards From Kabul: Taliban Shows Off Captured Aircraft
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Images from a recently released video shows additional details of now-former Afghan Air Force aircraft and helicopters that were still present at Kabul International...
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A Guide To Nigeria’s Military Drones
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe goal of this list is to comprehensively catalogue Nigeria's current inventory of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In an effort to streamline the list and avoid...
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Mobilised For War: Ethiopia’s Russian 2S19 Msta SPGs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Ethiopian military operates a number of Russian weapon systems that otherwise have found little success on the export market. One of these, the Su-25TK 'Tankovy...
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An International Export Success: Global Demand For The Bayraktar TB2 Reaches...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans It is not often that a type of weapon system is proving so popular that countries are waiting in line to buy it. Ironically, this appears to be the situation with the...
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Bayraktars Over Bakırköy #Teknofest
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Spectacular footage shows Bayraktar Akıncıs and TB2s coming in to land at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in preparation of Teknofest 2021. Their approach and landing could...
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Italian Allure - Turkmenistan’s M-346 Combat Jets
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansSome 30 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the inventories of many post-Soviet air forces are still very much defined by the Soviet-era aircraft types...
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