Recent content by gr8vision

Azerbaijanis can probably get North Koreans themselves. That's the last resort, if everything else fails, since buying from NK is a sure way to arouse unwelcome interest and scrutiny from every corner of the world. This is not so. Do you have any concrete examples of such a scenario being...

What do you mean? Please elaborate.

If I may guess the answer: Israeli weapons are expensive. Turkey doesn't yet have the long-range missiles that Azerbaijan seems to look for according to the news. And Russia is not selling Iskander yet - only next year will it be offered for export. So Pakistan, as well as China, are natural...

For Azerbaijan, like Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, etc., it seems the point is to depend less on Russia, as well as to support the friendly country of Pakistan.

There are actually no strict laws. Everyone referring to MTCR obviously never read it. Pakistan has nothing stopping it from exporting it to anyone, aside from restrictions by component manufacturers. Because JF-17 are not sold to anyone before fulfilling Pakistan's own demand. Then there is a...

It does make a lot of sense, but has there been anything in the Pakistani media, and how truly accurate and reliable are these Pakistani missiles? the MoD might not want to reveal something like this - a game-changer - in the immediate future, so that's why I asked if there is such a leak in...

The Azerbaijani media continues to write about interest in acquisition of Shaheen-1 and Hatf-4. Has there been anything in the Pakistani media? Also, how reliable and accurate are Shaheen-1 and Hatf-4? Is there any data? www.contact.az Azerbaijan strengthens missile forces and air defense...

First of all, what does this news/threat even do in a Defense forum? Secondly, Aliyev ended up winning with 85% of the vote, much more than the percentage given to him by the app. Third, since when are pan-Turkic credentials of Aliyev (or Nazarbayev) questioned - especially by anyone who...

Deleted the double post which was due to this website's malfunctioning. Please delete this post completely.

Actually, Turkish defense budget is rather large, and getting larger. The countries mentioned such as Canada and Australia are much larger geographically than Turkey, plus have very high wages. South Korea is constantly under the threat of annihilation by its crazy brother to the north, hence...

Oh, man, let me explain to you how things work in real world, especially in military procurement and government contracts: they don't "just happen" overnight. Some government official doesn't just go to a bazar and decide to buy something. The processes take years, with multiple RFDs and other...

Where's $30 billion from? Inflation? ;-) Please be more accurate and careful when posting something. U.S. was never a real contender - the problem with Patriot's is not their price (they are well worth their price considering that they are the only true battle-tested system of the 4 offered...

As a Turk, I would never buy a Patriot PAC-3 for the purposes that the Turkish government stated - long-range, strategic air defense and ABM. Patriot's, which are excellent for their purposes and the only truly battle-tested air-defense systems from the 4 offered to Turkey, are mostly tactical...

Turkish officials could have flown to all 4-5 countries, and witnessed tests there. In which case, I am sure all tests would show 100% accuracy - which in real combat is impossible to achieve. Had any tests been conducted in Turkey, the Turkish press would have written about it, not some...

The 300km claim is unlikely even in the latest variant, HQ-9B. All sources, albeit for HQ-9, say up to 125km. PLA Area Defence Missile Systems HQ-9 Where are Chinese sources that claim 300km? How reliable are they? Is there a Xinhua or similar authoritative government report, or...