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    Turkish army’s drill on Iraqi border [PHOTO]

    Both the media in the US and UK and the PKK are full of de-facto Marxists so there's a lot of ideological affinity there. However, it's more than that - this campaign must've been carefully orchestrated by Western intelligence agencies to promote the Kurds and to preemptively shield Western...
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    Turkish Sensor and Detector Programs

    CAFRAD has x-band horizon/precision volume search and illumination radars and s-band long range search radar as part of it. They're all part of the CAFRAD complex. SPY-1 is only s-band and passive and generally much less capable than CAFRAD will be.
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    Iraqi forces 'launch major Kirkuk operation'

    Reports of Iraqi AF striking KRG are being contradicted, as are reports of them having taken K1 base. Looks like it's true that Kurds destroyed some PMU humvees though and some Iraqi forces are dead.
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    Turkish Peace Operations in Syria (Operation Olive Branch) Updates & Discussions

    Within the borders of Syria our UAVs fly above 5km, which keeps them out of range of MANPADS, including that system. A UAV doesn't have to go to a lower altitude to support troops. Some other countries' UAVs do because they have poor quality optics but ours don't. If our UAV fell in Syria it'll...
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    Turkish Peace Operations in Syria (Operation Olive Branch) Updates & Discussions

    Ofcourse it wasn't shot down. Turkish UAVs fly much higher than PKK rats can shoot with any of their weapons including MANPADS.
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    Çay Bahçesi

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    T-129 Atak & Turkish Attack Helicopter Programs

    It'd be funny if Roketsan sees it and goes "hey, that's a good idea!" and makes them for real :lol: I do wish it had a T-122 launcher on top of the main rotor tho. *ahem* UkroTurk?
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    Turkish Land Vehicle Programs

    I wonder how they got it to not destroy the gun barrel. Or if they did at all..
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    Turkish Peace Operations in Syria (Operation Olive Branch) Updates & Discussions

    Turkey’s Operation in Idlib May Not Bring All-Out War With al-Qaida Turkey’s discussions with al-Qaida-linked militants ahead of its deployment in Syria’s Idlib province indicate that a wide-scale offensive against the militant group may not be Ankara’s primary objective, according to Charles...
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    Turkish Land Vehicle Programs

    The problem is it won't be ready for another year or 2 but we need APS systems now.
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    Turkish Peace Operations in Syria (Operation Olive Branch) Updates & Discussions

    Assad is cooperating with ISIS - he's got them to attack the rebels at Rahjan.
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    Turkish Peace Operations in Syria (Operation Olive Branch) Updates & Discussions

    HTS isn't escorting soldiers but some Turkish negotiators.
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    Turkish Missile Programs

    According to this it's a Mk-24 Mod. 2 Tigerfish.
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    The canopy became frameless. Interesting..
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