Analysis
Analysis: Military satellites in Greece and Turkey, Göktürk and İMECE against the Greek microsatellite swarm
Analysis: Turkey bet on a few large satellites with a military owner and a domestic industry; Greece on a dual-use…
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Greece
Armaments Radar: Sniper rifles, GDDIA opens negotiations for the Army’s second executive contract
Greece’s General Directorate for Defence Investments and Armaments set up a negotiating committee on October 8 for the second executive…
Analysis
Analysis: Turkey wants SAMP/T, what France’s “Steel Dome” Aster system would mean for Greek Rafales, F-16s and FDI frigates
Analysis: If Turkey acquires the Franco-Italian SAMP/T NG, the problem for Greece would not be one more air-defence system, but…
Drones
US Coast Guard buys first 4 MQ-9B drones for $247.8 million
The US Coast Guard is buying MQ-9B long-range unmanned aircraft for the first time: four aircraft, ground control stations and…
Middle East & North Africa
Iran says US reply to its seven Hormuz conditions is “inadequate”; Rezaei: the Strait will not open until they are met
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Washington’s reply to Tehran’s seven conditions for reopening the Strait…
Analysis
Analysis: David’s Sling, the missile with no warhead that Greece brings against Turkey’s Tayfun, with Rafael’s official video
Analysis: the Stunner interceptor of David’s Sling carries no explosive warhead and destroys its target by direct impact. We look…
Asia-Pacific
Australia: US approves $300 million sale of Tomahawk mission planning centres
The US State Department has notified Congress of a possible $300 million Foreign Military Sale to Australia of Tomahawk Theater…
Greece
Sinai monastery: October 22 deadline for a deal with Egypt approaches, with the brotherhood divided and questions over the October 24 ruling
Athens regards October 22 as the last date for an agreement with Egypt on the status and property of St…
Air Force
Çekirge in Hürriyet: Turkish warships for “12 countries”, an aircraft carrier in 2027 and Oruç Reis as “proof” against Greece and Israel
Hürriyet columnist Fatih Çekirge devoted his October 11 Sunday column to Turkish naval power, from corvette exports to Malaysia and…
Balkans
Third Yandex data centre knocked out after reported drone attack in Vladimir; Yandex Go goes down in Russia and Serbia
Yandex Cloud reported power outages at its Vladimir data centre on October 11, the third near-consecutive day of strikes on…
Middle East & North Africa
Riyadh: 12 dead and 309 injured in Houthi missile attack on King Khalid airport; Rubio says an American is among the victims
Saudi civil aviation says at least 12 people were killed and 309 injured when a ballistic missile hit a passenger…
Cyprus
Two 14th-century icons stolen after the Turkish invasion returned to Cyprus
Two Byzantine icons of the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, stolen from Kyrenia after the 1974 Turkish invasion and traced to…