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About 20 years ago people thought giving semi-active laser guidance to a 70 mm hydra missile would cut costs, for Hellfire misiles were expended on Afghna  and Iraqi cars. It took a while, but APKWS II has been in service both for helicopters and aircraft, with occasional experiments to use it as a surface-to-air missile. These missiles turned out to be the...

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Turkey* used to behave a bit bloc-free despite being in NATO. There was the famous S-400 arms purchase from Russia, for example. They were locked out of EU because some EU governments absolutely do not want Turkey in the EU (including Germany and Greece). Their behaviour in regard to migration around 2015 was a bit extortionate and adv...


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It's one thing that the interests of the rich get overrepresented in a democracy, but foreign influences have become too harmful as well.

 

Taking the case of Germany:

The Russian influences (including the still-not-closed 'Russian House' in Berlin) on certain political parties (BSW and AfD more and differently...


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There are two land-to-land ballistic rocket design philosophies in the SRBM and MRBM brackets:


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I did recently write about an optimal escort (GP frigate) and


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