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Nov 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
My latest: Amid rising tensions with #Kosovo, and Serbian President's recent order to shoot down all UAVs found in no-fly zones/near military facilities, #Iranian officials suggested that #Serbia made a formal bid to purchase that country’s drones.
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2. On this, Peter Voinovich isn't convinced stating that #Serbia “has significant capabilities both in engineering/manufacturing (it produces a lot of composite aircraft in civilian aviation sector) to cater to its own needs there is little #Iran could possibly provide it with."
3. Since becoming the biggest military spender in the Balkans in 2019, #Serbia's drone fleet has welcomed new arrivals: Chinese-made CH-92As, Serbian-made ‘Gavran’ loitering munition and an armed version of its ‘Vrabac’ small drone are being developed.
4. While Serbia has openly stated its interest in acquiring #TB2 drones multiple times, these plans might be halted after unconfirmed claims were made by Iranian Gen. Yahia Rahim Safavi stating that Belgrade is 1 of 22 countries to have filed formal bids to buy #Iranian UAVs.

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Nov 23
🧵My latest: Turkey's first nuclear plant built and financed by subsidiary of #Russia's Rosatom will be operational in 2023. Under the agreement, Moscow may establish a commercial port in #Turkey with likely national and international security implications
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2. The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is located in a highly strategic location, some 200km from Cyprus and #NATO’s Kurecik early-warning radar station as well as near the Syrian border. It bills itself as the “biggest project in the history of #Russian-#Turkish relations"
3. While an original agreement for the construction was signed in 2010 between Akkuyu Nukleer (Rosatom subsidiary) and the Turkish firm IC Ictas, it was later on terminated and a new one was signed in July 2022 for TSM (owned by 3Russia-based firms) to undertake remaining work.
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Nov 22
🧵Interesting development in #Israel's position/contributions to Ukraine. In October, reports from Israeli media stated that national manufacturer ’Smartshooter’ would have provided UKR with its Smash2000 Plus interception drone system by way of #Poland acting as an intermediary.
2. According to this information, the Ukrainian army would have completed the installation of the system on light arms and aircraft to counter enemy drones. There’s been no visual confirmation of its presence in #Ukraine yet and Israeli authorities have remained silent
3. The Smash2000 Plus is based on its predecessor the Smash 2000, but further includes a counter-UAS mode that provides for the kinetic elimination of small, low-flying drones (so not necessarily effective against #Iran's Shahed-136s).
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Nov 15
🧵The EDF has just released its 2022 Annual Review on Defence Report, finding that #EU defence expenditure grew significantly to €214B in 2021 (up 6% compared to 2020) and is estimated to grow further by up to €70B by 2025, offsetting underspending from previous decade. Image
2. It finds that member states prioritise high-end capabilities in traditional air, maritime and land domains, where % of investment is comparable to the 2020. Grey area represents amount of investment without an associated programme (substantial increase from previous cycle). Image
3. Identifies most promising opportunities in the land sector, with the ones deemed most pressing: armoured tracked vehicles, anti-tank systems and C-IED, EODs. In maritime domain, most needed are maritime surveillance and harbour protection. For air, UAVs & SR air defence Image
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Nov 14
Latest for @ShephardNews: Aselsan's MURAD radar, which aims to compete with the #US Northrop Grumman’s AN/APG-83 on the international market, is on track to be integrated on Baykar's #Akinci drone by 2023. System will be ITAR-free, easing global exports.
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2. Similar to the US APG-83, the Turkish AESA radar performs a search of designated locations through electronic scanning, allowing for more rapid and longer-range target detection and monitoring.
3. However, whereas the APG-83 features GaAs T/M modules, the Turkish radar has GaN based T/R modules, with a higher breakdown voltage compared to the US equipment, using less power and producing a lower heat output.
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Nov 2
🧵First cover story for @DTRmag: side-by-side comparative analysis of the different loitering munitions that have been used by #Ukraine and #Russia in the war. The more success LM have, the greater their visibility to potential Western users & higher likelihood of their adoption ImageImageImage
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3. UAF have used 150+ Warmates and Polish firm conducts regular deliveries of new stock to #Ukraine. Switchblade 300, which has been highly coveted by the press, hasn't had the kind of ‘game-changing’ effects on the battlefield many armchair observers were breathlessly predicting
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🧵Latest w/ @JM_Szuba: US officials confirm that OPEC cuts have not hindered plans to turn existing military facilities in #Saudi into an air/missile defense network testing centre involving many states willing to work together against #Iran's drone threat al-monitor.com/originals/2022…
2. “Think of it like a rifle range for air and missile defenses,” US Army Brig. Gen. John Cogbill,the command’s deputy director for ops, told Al-Monitor in at #CENTCOM headquarters. “You can put [a system] through its paces, get that feedback, and test its limits.”
3. The facility tentatively dubbed the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center will focus specifically on testing and fielding both existing and new counter-drone technologies.
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