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Recap: UAE Air Force Armed Drones Over Tigray
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe last few months have seen a remarkable reversal of fortunes for the Ethiopian government. After a large Ethiopian Army offensive against Tigray forces in early...
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Keeping The Peace - Bayraktar TB2s Over Ukraine
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans A Ukrainian drone strike on a howitzer belonging to DNR seperatist forces in the contested region of Eastern Ukraine led several countries to voice their concern for...
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Ride The Turkish Tiger: Indonesia’s Kaplan MT Tanks
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansIndonesia continues to field large numbers of light tanks. The oldest of these, the AMX-13/75 and the PT-76, operated by the Army and Marine Corps respectively, were...
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Iranian Drone Munitions Found In Ethiopia
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Not even a week after our earlier revelation that Wing Loong I armed drones operated by the United Arab Emirates over Tigray have possibly been involved in series of...
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From Trainer To Attacker: The Aero L-39C Albatros In Afghan Service
By Lukas Müller in collaboration with Stijn Mitzer This is an updated and expanded version of an article that was first published in the August/September 2020 newsletter of the Asian Air Arms Research...
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Convenient Ignorance: The U.S. Senate’s Approach To Israeli Arms Sales To...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Israel is Azerbaijan's largest supplier of arms and equipment, accounting for a whopping 69% percent of Azerbaijan's major arms imports in the period from 2016 to...
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Guardians Of The Steppe - Kazakhstan’s UAVs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansIn November 2021 it was announced that Kazakhstan had signed a contract with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) for the delivery of three TAI Anka unmanned combat...
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Ashgabat’s Quirky Monorail System
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Soviet Union is famous for the extravagant metro systems constructed in the cities of a number of Soviet republics. Major cities like Minsk, Tashkent, Moscow and...
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Confirmed Arms Transfers To The Ethiopian Military During The Tigray War
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans An air bridge between Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran has sought to equip Ethiopia with the weapons it needs to defeat the Tigray Defence Forces...
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Swarm-UAVs Are Coming - And Turkey Just Called Dibs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans ''Don't bother to devote your energy to achieving impossible dreams. Just establish a bridge between us and them [western defence manufacturers], act as our...
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Endless Possibilities - The Bayraktar Akıncı’s Multi-Role Weapons Loadout
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Bayraktar Akıncı is the world's first production multi-role unmanned combat aircraft. Arguably the most innovative aspect of the Akıncı is its capability to use...
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Knights Of Yerevan - Armenia’s Su-30 Flankers
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Su-30 was a notable absentee from the air war over Nagorno-Karabakh during the latest escalation of the unresolved conflict over the region. Hailed by Armenia's...
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Deadly Advanced: A Complete Overview Of Turkish Designed Air-Launched Munitions
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Most know about Turkey's rise to a global drone power. Not nearly as well known is that the precision-guided munitions carried by Turkish drones are being introduced...
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Roars Over Riau - Indonesia’s CH-4B UCAVs
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe Indonesian Air Force is currently undergoing a re-equipment programme with the aim of building up a qualitative force to defend its territory and counter an...
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Blue’s Clues: Turkmen Otokar Urals And Cobras
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The Otokar Cobra is one of the world's most successful infantry mobility vehicle (IMV) designs. Since the vehicle's inception in 1997, thousands of Cobra Is have been...
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From Atak To TF-2000: 100 Years Of Turkish Naval Shipbuilding
By Stijn Mitzer and Kemal Egemenlik verilmez, alınır - Sovereignty is not given, it is taken (By Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)The Turkish Navy is set to build at least four TF-2000 air-defence destroyers that...
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Drone Warfare Turns Hot Over Ethiopia’s Oromia Region
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The discovery of Iranian Ghaem-5 precision-guided munition (PGM) remains near the town of Gidami in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia in early January 2022 was a first...
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Operational Failure: The CH-4B’s Short-Lived Career In Jordan
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans As the number of nations operating unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) grows larger and larger each year, Jordan retired its entire inventory of UCAVs some two...
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Bombs From Baku: Cataloguing Azerbaijan’s Indigenous Air-To-Ground Munitions
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Unbeknownst to many, Azerbaijan has designed a vast range of unguided and guided munitions for use with its air force. Whilst it is unknown how many of these designs...
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Sky Giant: Turkey Mulls To Complete The Second Antonov An-225 Mriya
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Out of all the aerospace collaborations currently discussed between Ukraine and Turkey, the possibility of completing the second An-225 Mriya, the world's largest...
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