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A Gap In The Aegean: The KARA ATMACA GLCM
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans A number of military projects currently pursued by Türkiye have the potential to alter the military balance in the Aegean Sea from the late 2020s onwards, to the...
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Stories From The Deep: Indonesia’s Experimental U-Boat Midget Sub
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Military enthusiasts are always on the hunt for new captivating war stories. Mark Felton has already done a great job in bringing a great number of elusive war...
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The Test Of Time: Vietnam’s U.S.-Made Naval Ships
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The subject of U.S.-made military equipment in active service with Communist Vietnam has fascinated military enthusiasts and analysts alike. For all their fascination...
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Bye Bye Berlin: Türkiye's He 111 Bombers
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Looking at the title and header image one might easily be led to conclude that we've gotten the aircraft type wrong for this particular article. Where is the...
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A(nother) Shot At Power: Thailand's DTI-1 Rocket Launchers
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The mid-to-late 1990s was shaping up to become the Royal Thai Armed Forces' golden decade. The acquisition of 18 F-16As propelled the Royal Thai Air Force to the...
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A Modest Military: Moldova’s Fighting Vehicles
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe Moldovan Armed Forces is one of the most elusive fighting forces in Europe. As the poorest country on the European continent, Moldova has the dubious honour of not...
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The Struggle For Relevance: Transnistria’s Fighting Vehicles
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansTransnistria, or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) as it is officially called, is a breakaway state situated between Moldova and Ukraine that has largely...
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Counting Down: List Of Russian Army Equipment Not Yet Destroyed In Ukraine
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Russia's one year anniversary of its special military operation in Ukraine marks a pivotal point not just for its symbolic significance, but also because it...
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Attrition In Action: List Of Ukrainian Army Equipment Not Yet Destroyed
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans February 2023 marks one full year of epic struggle on Ukraine's part to preserve its very existence. Rather than succumbing to the invaders beleaguering the country...
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A Visual Guide To North Korea’s Fighting Vehicles
By Joost Oliemans and Stijn Mitzer The goal of this list is to comprehensively catalogue North Korea's current inventory of vehicles and equipment. In an effort to streamline the list and avoid...
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Fire Boss - Türkiye’s S-2 Tracker Aerial Firefighter
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansTürkiye'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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Russia’s Wars: Listing Equipment Losses During The 1992 Moldo-Russian War
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Transnistria owes its existence to a brief war in 1992 between Moldova and Russian-backed separatists who feared that Moldova would become part of Romania after the...
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The North Korea Of Europe: Listing Socialist Albania’s Military Equipment
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans The People's Socialist Republic of Albania was a Marxist-Leninist one party state that existed from 1946 until 1991. Throughout much of its existence, the country was...
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Doubling Down: Japan’s Military Donations
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans After decades of bidding for peace, Japan is now once more preparing for the possibility of war, for the first time truly introducing offensive capabilities to the...
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Dad’s Army: List Of Russian Army Equipment Deployed In Ukraine Older Than Our...
By Stijn Mitzer, Joost Oliemans and Kemal Those expecting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine to be a spectacle of Russian military might were soon left sorely disappointed. Yet the degradation of...
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WWII’s Absentee: German and Allied Equipment Used By The Turkish Republic
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Staying neutral during the Second World War was an art form that Türkiye managed to master through clever diplomacy. It would take until February 1945 when the...
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Fall Gelb: Documenting Equipment Losses During The 1940 German Invasion Of...
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe Battle for Luxembourg was a short battle between the Luxembourg Gendarmerie, Volunteer Corps and the German Wehrmacht that resulted in a swift victory for Nazi...
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Backwards Modernisation: Venezuela’s Israeli Barak-1 Air Defence Systems
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Despite investing tens of billions of USD into its Armed Forces over the past two decades, Venezuela is curiously left with a military that is significantly weaker...
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Fortress Taiwan: Listing AFVs In Service With The Republic Of China
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe Taiwanese Army has historically received the least amount of funding out of the Taiwanese Armed Forces' three main service branches. With a yearly budget of only...
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List Listing: The Oryx List of Lists
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists. (By Peter McWilliams)This page is a list of lists — a list of pages...
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