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A Monument Of Victory: The Bayraktar TB2 Kill List
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans in collaboration with Jakub Janovsky, Dan, and COIN Bin atlı o gün dev gibi bir orduyu yendik! - A thousand cavaliers, we beat a giant army that day! (Akıncılar, by...
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New Meets Old: Aselsan’s 30mm SMASH RWS On Azerbaijani Stenka Patrol Boats
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Azerbaijani Navy is lagging behind in modern developments compared to the rest of the country's military and other nations' navies in the Caspian Sea. Instead,...
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From Turkey With Love: Tracking Turkish Military Donations
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkey has made a shift from being partially dependant on donations of military equipment in the 1970s and 1980s to being the party that donates in the 2010s and...
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Turkish Drones Are Conquering Central Asia: The Bayraktar TB2 Arrives To...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans In late October 2021 it was announced that Kyrgyzstan had placed an order for three Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) from Baykar Tech....
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Overlooked And Underfunded: Armenia’s S-125 SAM Upgrade
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans In the 2010s, Armenia embarked on an expansive modernisation programme of its air defences to keep up with Azerbaijan's expanding drone arsenal and to address the...
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An Eagle Takes Shape – Indonesia’s Elang Hitam MALE UCAV
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Indonesian National Armed Forces are responsible for patrolling an archipelago of 17,000 islands that extend 5,150 kilometers from east to west. For this...
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Iran Is Still Resupplying The Ethiopian Military
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemansbased on data gathered by Gerjon Even as Emirati cargo flights carrying arms and equipment to Ethiopia appear to have come to a halt (but not before delivering six...
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The Middle East’s Game of Drones: Egypt’s UAV Arsenal
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansEgypt has a long tradition of acquiring military equipment from a multitude of sources rather than solely relying on one country in case it's suddenly to be...
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Performance Check: Bayraktar TB2s In Ukraine
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Ukraine's acquisition and subsequent use of the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 has been a cause of significant concern for separatist forces in Eastern Ukraine, and for...
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Death From Above - Azerbaijan’s Killer Drone Arsenal
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans That Turkish-made unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) and Israeli-designed loitering munitions enabled Azerbaijan its striking victory during the 2020...
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Market Expansion: Turkey Set To Export Patrol Vessels To Indonesia
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans These days Turkish-designed naval vessels ships operate with navies all around the globe as Turkey is rapidly on the way towards attaining near self-sufficiency in...
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Secretive UAE Air Force Aircraft Deployed To War-Torn Ethiopia
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemansbased on data gathered by Gerjon In November 2021 the United Arab Emirates deployed at least six Wing Loong I unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to Harar Meda air...
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Patient Zero - Turkmenistan Acquires Kazan Ansat And Mi-17-1V Helicopters For...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Turkmenistan is on the largest aircraft-buying spree in the history of the country. This has so far seen the acquisition of M-346 and A-29B combat aircraft, C-27J NG...
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Fire Boss - Turkey’s S-2 Tracker Aerial Firefighter
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansTurkey's rich aviation history spans far more time and projects than most people are presently aware of. Unfortunately, many of the country's indigenous aviation...
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Iranian Mohajer-6 UCAVs Deploy To Harar Meda Air Base In Ethiopia #Shorts
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Satellite imagery from early December 2021 indicates that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) has deployed Mohajer-6 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to Harar Meda...
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Bigger Business: Turkey Unveils F142 Frigate Design
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans As naval shipbuilders in Europe face fierce competition by catering to a market that has meanwhile become too small for all of them to survive the coming decades,...
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UAE Implicated In Lethal Drone Strikes In Tigray
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Just a month after the deployment of six Emirati Wing Loong I unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) and their operators to Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates is...
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Replicating Success: Turkmenistan’s Arsenal Of Israeli SkyStriker Loitering...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansTurkmenistan is a large recipient of Israeli arms and equipment, so far including weaponry like the TAR-21 assault rifle and several types of infantry mobility...
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Thunder From The East - Pakistan’s Operational UAV Fleet
By Farooq Bhai in collaboration with Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansPakistan has been a prolific user of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) since the late 1990s. In 2004, the Pakistani Air Force (PAF)...
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The Commuting Line That Shaped Istanbul’s Urban History
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Yurdumuzu dünyanın en mamur ve en medeni memleketleri seviyesine çıkaracağız - We shall raise our country to the level of the most prosperous and civilized nations of...
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