Throughout the 100 -hour struggle between India and Pakistan in Could 2025, Islamabad fired a barrage of drones and missiles on enemy army institutions and civilian inhabitants.
The largest wave was in late Could 8 and early 9 Could; Between 300 and 400 drones, and greater than a dozen missiles attacked 36 cities or cities from Srinagar in Jammu and unfold about 1,300 km alongside the Line of Management and Worldwide Border to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, to Jaisalmer in Kashmir.
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Certainly one of these overwhelming majority was shot down, and people who weren’t impartial, ie, electronically disabled, because of India’s ‘Iron Dome’,-Acified Counter-Gairman Aerial System, or C-UAS.
Shot -Down -Downing Initiatives, a brand new conspiracy emerged – a connivance between Pakistan and Turkey, and Azerbaijan, who all share a quick sturdy financial and army relations, to not point out their normal Islamic heritage.
‘three brothers’
Traditionally every has supported the opposite; Turkey and Pakistan had been fast to determine Azerbaijan after the Soviet Union fell, and Turkey and Pakistan have a rising symbiotic army relationship, which was reluctant to every facet to rely upon the West or China.
And oil -rich Azerbaijan has quietly turn out to be a significant supply of help and funding for Pakistan; In February 2025, for instance, Baku dedicated $ 2 billion in infrastructure, vitality and mining.
‘Three Brothers’ – Tรผrkiye, Pakistan and Azerbaijan. Picture Credit score: Google Maps
Baku and Islamabad additionally made arms offers, and later throughout the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh struggle, East and Ankara included Azerbaijan and Armenia.
By the way, India has emerged as a supporter of Armenia.
In 2024, Delhi grew to become the biggest protection provider of Jerevan after a deal of $ 2 billion, together with gross sales of indigenously developed Akash Missile System, which positioned the Turkish-Narrian Pak drone within the Gulf.
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There has additionally been financial assist – in banking, commerce and tourism, in different areas – which is vital that the three are ‘Far East’ and the traditional commerce corridors connecting Europe.
Pak PM Shahbaz Sharif and Azerbaijan President Ilhm Alive (File).
Nexus additionally combines a big normal diplomat, or ‘smooth’, energy, which can be utilized in Pak, Central Asia, and even to challenge geo -political influences on the east facet to East, with analysts additionally point out the ‘affect and affect between Muslims’ of Islamabad.
These, then, are ‘three brothers’, in opposition to whom, actually, India fought a 100 -hour struggle.
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In fact, there was a Pak face, the Turkish weapon hand, and Azerbaijan obtained help by eradicating the flood of disintegration and propaganda demanding Delhi’s army features.
Turkish angle
Now, lots of the Pak drones, who attacked India final week, had been Turkish-made.
These included the Asisguard Songs, which may transmit stay movies and carry weapons, and Berakar TB 2, a moderate-height, long-lasting UCAV, or unmanned fighter aerial car.
That foreign-manufactured/foreign-affected weapons had been used, it was not stunning; Pakistan additionally deployed Chinese language -made JF -17 fighters and fired PL -15 air -to -air missiles bought by Beijing, comparable to French -made Rafaels, Israeli drones and Russian missiles in India of their enormous arsenal.
The rubble of a Turkish-made Pakistani drone shot at J&Ok.
However Ankara Hyperlink – A hyperlink bolstered by a warship of a warship and a possible arms cargo distributed by a C -130 army transport, a couple of days earlier than Operation Sindoor – raised the eyebrows.
Turkey insisted that no weapon was provided and the warship’s journey was naval etiquette.
Clearly, nonetheless, weapons have been provided.
Turkish-Pak weapon deal
Within the final a number of years, Ankara and Islamabad have taken ahead protection relations in a even handed method.
For instance, the Pakistan Air Pressure now flies over greater than three dozen United States -built F -16 fighter jets, upgraded by Turkish Aerospace Industries to a $ 75 million deal.
A Turkish firm was given $ 20 million to develop digital struggle coaching facilities.
Based on the Manohar Parrikar Institute – for the Pak Navy – one other, one other bought a $ 80 million contract for the design and development of a fleet tanker – “able to conducting quite a lot of marine, together with provision of logistic assist to different ships by shifting gas by transferring gas”.
Superior submarines value $ 350 million, digital concentrating on gear prices $ 50 million and had a $ 1.5 billion deal for 4 Turkish warships with anti-hydroelectric capabilities.
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There was additionally a deal of one other $ 1.5 billion for 30 assault helicopters-advanced model of the Italian-built A-129-but returned to it after receiving the Z-10mes of Islamabad China.
Turkey has bought arms to Pakistan, and was utilized by those that had no actual affect for efficient counterators in opposition to India. Delhi shouldn’t be but, and maybe it’s unlikely, take it with Ankara, however sources have mentioned that the India-Turkish relationship might be re-evaluated.
Residents have been pushed in opposition to Tรผrkiye; Vacationers and Bollywood, maybe two of Ankara’s most engaging imports from Delhi, have gone on a ‘boycott Turkish’ drive.
Azerbaijan has additionally come for criticism of the Indian public.
It has not but been affected by Turkish President Recepting Tayip Erdogan, at the least, whose stature of top as a ‘international politician’, first, after the struggle, is rising head to head after the host of Russia-Ukraine peace talks. Erdogan has repeated assist for his ‘pricey brother’, Pak Shehbaz Sharif.
Kฤฑyymetli @Cmshehbaz Kardisim,
Dion
– Recep Tayyip Erdojan (@Rterdogan) Could 13, 2025
Erdogan, actually, has visited Pak six occasions since turning into President in 2003.
Enterprise ‘Enterprise’
Subsequently, if India’s commerce is to take a success with the opposite two ‘brothers’, then how a lot are we speaking?
Exports to Tรผrkiye had been $ 5.2 billion between April 2024 and February 2025. It was $ 6.65 billion in 2023/24 and is simply $ 437 billion of India’s whole exports.
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The export to Azerbaijan between April 2024 and February 2025 was solely $ 86.07 million, in opposition to $ 89.67 million in 2023/24. That is solely 0.02 p.c of India’s whole outbound cargo.
The joint, import quantity is lower than 0.6 p.c.
Subsequently, there’s a enterprise surplus, even when it isn’t large.
‘Three Brothers vs India?
The 100-hour struggle emphasised two digits.
The primary-Indian Military is cleverly intelligent, it has a strong arsenal of short-to-medium-medium, and long-range missiles and drones, supported by the squadron of the efficient, if the outdated, fighter jets, all are protected behind a dependable, grounded air protection system that’s able to smooth and inflexible murders.
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This safety is offered by India’s ‘Iron Dome’ – inside which seats varied radar arrays to detect, determine and monitor the hazards of potential plane. The counterichers are then deployed, through which the interceptors are fired from the sky or from the Russian -made S -400, from jamming the sign.
Russian-made S-400 missile protection methods had been used to fight Pak threats (file).
Second – ‘Three Brothers’ Nexus must be taken significantly, so increasingly in Islamabad appears to have a delicate change for Ankara from Washington (and maybe Beijing).
And Delhi is doing this. In Europe, for instance, there may be army assist to have interaction with Armenia (to fight Azerbaijan) and Greece -backed Cyprus (to offset Turkey).
Deliberate India-Mid can also be a pre-europe-economic hall, and doesn’t embrace the truth that it isn’t included or handed by way of Tรผrkiye or Azerbaijan.
India will most likely proceed to have interaction Turkey and Azerbaijan, because it doesn’t perceive to chop itself from the most important powers within the Central Asian area, however Delhi have to be trying carefully on the ‘Three Brothers’, the place the necessity was, it’s shifting ahead for the reflection or assist.
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