Kargu

Here's What You Need To Know: Tehran realizes its naval forces don’t have the survivability or firepower to slug it out with adversaries in a head-on engagement. Instead it would lean on the shallow, confining geography of the Persian Gulf and especially the chokepoint of the Strait—only twenty-nine miles from…

Turkey’s Drone War in Syria – A Red Team View Scott Crino and Andy Dreby Turkey’s armed forces gained worldwide attention when its air force launched a remarkable and innovative airpower show-of-force against Bashir al-Assad’s Syrian Army. As part of a combined air and ground operation, the Turkish air force…

Key point: Everyone is building drones and many countries are realizing cheaper, suicide ones are an effective weapon. This includes not only Russia, but America too. Russia is testing “kamikaze drones,” or unmanned aircraft that are essentially flying artillery shells. Factory testing of the KYB-BLA and Lancet weapons have been completed,…

Key point: Israeli warplanes have launched hundreds of strikes on targets in Syria since the start of the civil war, seeking to disrupt arms transfers to Hezbollah and the buildup of Iranian forces. On January 21, 2019. Iranian, Syrian and Israeli forces unleashed a hail of missiles upon each other in what…

Key point: Everyone is building drones and many countries are realizing cheaper, suicide ones are an effective weapon. This includes not only Russia, but America too. Russia is testing “kamikaze drones,” or unmanned aircraft that are essentially flying artillery shells. Factory testing of the KYB-BLA and Lancet weapons have been completed,…

Key point: Drones are increasingly cheap and are a good way to saturate an enemy's defenses. Here's how Israel is using them to achieve its military goals. On January 21, 2019. Iranian, Syrian and Israeli forces unleashed a hail of missiles upon each other in what is becoming yet another flare-up of…

Key point: These speed boats would die easily in a fight, but Iran has studied asymmetric war. Tehran knows its small boats can still cause damage through missile strikes. Iran has fielded a variety of unusual weapons over the years: F-14 Tomcat fighters hotwired to fire Russian missiles, homemade mini-submarines, and remanufactured…

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s defense procurement agency has unveiled an ambitious procurement plan for 2020, even as its economy seeks to recover from a recession and the government spends money fighting wars in multiple theaters, including Iraq and Syria.Under the plan, the Presidency of Defense Industries, or SSB, said the…

President Donald Trump this week proposed a mere 0.3% increase in military spending to $740.5 billion next year. But inside that budget, there’s a big emphasis once again on high-tech defense capabilities in areas like cyberwarfare, use of the cloud in the battlefield, specialized drones, advanced communications and artificial intelligence.…

Key Point: It appears the air defense batteries were overwhelmed by a saturation attack. The implication, then, is that Syrian air defenses have made Israeli attacks more expensive by requiring expenditure of additional and more expensive munitions, but they …