Turkey Seeks Engine for Future Local Fighter

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* Turkey seems determined to go ahead with their local TF-X fighter, which is being designed in conjunction with Saab, rather than become part of a Korean-led KF-X. To that effect they have just solicited bids from GE and PW for the research project’s engine. * Japan’s government wants to speed up joint armament development […]

* Turkey seems determined to go ahead with their local TF-X fighter, which is being designed in conjunction with Saab, rather than become part of a Korean-led KF-X. To that effect they have just solicited bids from GE and PW for the research project’s engine.

* Japan’s government wants to speed up joint armament development with friendly South Asian and Western countries.

* South Korea’s former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Han Min-koo will go through a parliamentary confirmation hearing on Sunday to become the new defense minister. He was nominated at the beginning of the month by President Park to replace Kim Kwan-jin who will become national security adviser.

* Incidentally North Korea also announced a similar staff change, though there parliamentary confirmations are curiously absent.

* As it did earlier in Libya, China is finding that it cannot provide much if any security to its energy firms in Iraq, despite the huge investments they have made in the local infrastructure.

* The Institute for the Study of War has the latest Iraq situation report [map, PDF]. The situation appears very much in flux.

So Much for the Cooperative Gestures

* Pro-Russian insurgents broke the cease fire they had just agreed to by shooting down a Ukrainian military helicopter, killing 9 people in the process. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) says President Putin is adept at sending “empty ‘positive signals’ used to justify another western cave-in over sanctions.”

Active Reserves

* Today’s video explains the Arctic Kite exercise performed by the UK’s Royal Air Force Reserves in Norway:

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