I have two theories:

Prologue: AFAIK, and I wanto to underline “AFAIK”, the US officially acknowledges that its Air Force has an UAS called RQ-170 developed by Lockheed Martin. But it never has confirmed that the RQ-170 is the name of the “thing” we saw taking off from Kandahar. In other words, it is not officially confirmed that the Beast of Kandahar is RQ-170.

Theory #1: They had a mock up of RQ-170 long before this incident, maybe for reverse engineering, or target practice or just studying RCS on a shape they produced by looking at open source materiel, i.e footage, photos etc. It is almost impossible to produce a fiberglass mock up in 4 days, especially an object with such curved features and just look at the intake! It is very well-produced for a mock-up that is claimed to be produced in 4 days.

If this is the case, they might have wanted to use the “replica” of the RQ-170 to claim to have shoot down the Beast of Kandahar. No matter what the rest of the world would think, but this clearly is a very strong propaganda feat for the Iranian government, towards Iranians. Beside, given the case in my claim at the “prologue” is correct, I don’t very much think that the US will officially make any statements towards this case like “the UAV in the Iranian footage is RQ-170” or vice versa. Iranians, knowing this might have wanted to use this “confirmation gap”. (In theory, US might very well show an RC kit and say that “this is the RQ-170 for testing some sci-fi systems”)

Theory #2: The UAV in the Iranian footage is actually RQ-170 and it actually was downed / shot down / “hcked” somewhere north of Tebes, 250km inside Iran – Afg. border, as the UN Ambassador of Iran said. Than this is big news, a very big scandal for the US. Such systems for sure are protected for some level against enemy tech. intel guys, but it nevertheless provides extremely valuable technical intelligence information for sure.

If theory #2 is the case, than the question is, naturally, “how the hell?”. My guess is some sort of flame out and/or electro-mechanical malfunction. Maybe an electronic attack triggered such failure, not completely impossible. Just look at the StuxNet story. Israelis / US are not the only ones thinking & working on CyberWarfare!

AFAIK ISAF admitted an UAV was lost at Western Afghanistan region but did not specify the type.

Iran claims it is RQ-170 and it is “downed” using “soft” methods, i.e electronic warfare & jamming, remote control maybe.

So we have indeed a downed / crash landed US UAV but do not know the type. If it is indeed RQ-170, than wow. Simply wow.

That is a Turkish KC-135 in flight refuelling a Malaysian Su-30MKK!

now THIS is a French KC-135 with an Indian MKI :diablo:

The tanker aircraft seen at Deino’s post is definitely NOT a Turkish one, hence the roundels on both wing upper surfaces. Turkish aircraft carry roundels at the starboard upper side and port down side of the wing.

Not long ago a Defense News article mentioned the possibility of Greece selling some surplus F-16’s, presumably the Block 30 ones. Is there any information and/or discussion regarding this?

Turkmenistan Navy received two Russian missile boats

Turkmenistan Navy put into service two Russian missile boat class “Molniya” (project 1241.8).

source in Russian lanuage.

http://lenta.ru/news/2011/10/10/molnia/

They are also going to take delivery of two 400t class patrol boats being built by Dearsan of Turkey.

why not A-10s” seem like they’d be perfect for Turkey

Indeed they would. But the aircraft operated were from AMARC and in pretty bad shape, pluse costs of infrastructure etc was high for the time. The total number was 50 IIRC.