Turkish Defence R&D Expenditures Have the Biggest Share
According to the SER Academy’s “The Turkiye 2024 R&D and Innovation Report”, the Turkish defence industry has the highest share of public R&D expenditures.
air force News
Investment
Country
Air
Weapon / Missile
Expo and Air Show
MBDA to Participate in SAHA EXPO 2024
European missile systems provider MBDA will participate in the SAHA EXPO in Istanbul from October 22 to 26, 2024.
Air
Modernisation
Fifth Fighting Falcon Returns to the Skies
The Presidency of Defence Industries (Savunma Sanayii Başkanlığı/SSB) announced that the fifth F-16 Fighting Falcon is delivered to the Turkish Air Force.
Navy / Maritime
Bilateral Relations
Regional / Strategy
Defence Politics
An Olive Branch to Egypt, Velvet Glove to Greece
Defence Minister Hulusi Akar attended the Blue Homeland 2021 Exercise at the Aegean Sea. Akar spoke about developing relations with Egypt and warned Greece.
Air
Bilateral Relations
Defence Politics
Modernisation
F-16 Air Combat Training Center for Jordan
The U.S. State Department approved FMS to Jordan for an F-16 Air Combat Training Center and related equipment at an estimated cost of $60 million.
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
