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Turkish media reports reveal that Erdogan has allocated 7,67,000 Liras to the Turkish space agency in the first half of 2020
Under the ‘Caliphate missile’ programme, Turkey would need billions of Dollars
It would be interesting to see how the major world powers stand up to the ‘Caliphate missile’ programme of Turkey
New Delhi: Turkey s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his extra-terrestrial ambitions by apprising the world about the country s Moon mission programme. Turkey plans to land on the Moon in 2023 the year marking the birth centenary of the country. The Turkish President, who made this announcement on February 9, also put forward the ambitious space programme of the country for the next ten years.
Share Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile has quickly secured export sales since it was first fielded a decade ago. The weapon has also evolved into the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile for the U.S. Navy and Air Force.
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Thirty years ago, news cameras shot shaky imagery of long tubular missiles flying across the Baghdad skyline. They were a mix of Raytheon Tomahawks launched from U.S. Navy warships in the Arabian Sea and Boeing AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missiles, released from Boeing B-52s in the final moments of their flights, closing in on targets in the city center with a precision never seen in previous conflicts.
An An-2 parked in the snow. Credit: www.ariliners.net via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.
In September 2020, on the second day of the six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, the Armenian defense forces published a video of one of their units deploying a surface-to-air missile system to target a low-flying, slow-moving object a drone. But what the soldiers shot down was no cutting-edge autonomous weapon: They had destroyed a propeller-driven, single-engine biplane first produced in the 1940s by the former Soviet Union for agricultural monitoring and management a crop duster.
Azerbaijan had evidently converted multiple Antonov An-2 piston-powered light aircraft into uninhabited aerial vehicles. During the conflict, they were repeatedly dispatched on munitions-laden suicide missions used to bait Armenian air defenses. Deployed as a so-called “bait drone,” the An-2 from the September video forced the Armenians to fire their anti-a
Shining a Light on the Iran Deal’s Sunset Problem
If the new administration is serious about reinvigorated diplomacy, it must resist Iran’s nuclear extortion and forgo the temptation of rejoining the JCPOA. Breathing life into an expiring accord will not help dampen the Islamic Republic’s nuclear, missile, and military threats.
Believe it or not, Tehran and Washington are already negotiating. Not in the shadows of a stuffy European hotel, but via a rhetorical exchange happening in plain sight.
Despite President Joe Biden’s condemnation of his predecessor’s Iran policy and the president’s stated desire to return to the 2015 nuclear accord that Donald Trump left, his cabinet appointees say that America is in no rush. Iranian officials have responded with great variety. On the one hand, they claim that Tehran no longer needs the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement’s official moniker. On the other, they call on Washington to rejoin the deal
Being a private citizen, Greta Thunberg s comments and tweets have no bearing on foreign policy
The Swedish government has declined to comment on the remarks made by the climate activist, Greta Thunberg, who is a Swedish national. In response to WION s question on tweets by Greta Thunberg on India s farmers protest, the Swedish foreign ministry said it has no comments on this matter.
Being a private citizen, her comments and tweets have no bearing on foreign policy but as an influencer, she has had an impact especially when it comes to the US President Donald Trump s presidency. Greta has been a climate activist drawing focus on the issue.