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UAE and Saudis are not in the best terms right now

C-802 (a Sea-skimming missile) would crush a ship of that size. There is no point explaining this though as a sane mind should be able to put the pieces together. Rest in peace to those who had fallen. May their memory be eternal.

idk why but that photo made my day. There is even runes and everything lol

There is neither a 1500 HP Italian engine nor there is a project for it. There is also no suitable engine for Altay in the following countries: US UK Russia France Ukraine Koreans have one, guess with whom license they get produced? Japanese, Finnish and Chinese have engines that produce...

This is probably what Zumwalt should've been :-)

TB2 has a wingspan of 12 meters while Anka boasts a wingspan of almost 20 meters so, what do you think? It is either F-35 or no fixed-wing aircraft on Anadolu at this point. I mean, since this is not a video game we should also think about CONOPS for such a plane right? I fail to see what...

American concerns regarding Huawei's 5G hardware is that there might be backdoors that would let Chinese access to such systems.

This is how Israeli drone companies tend to operate. They don't sell you the hardware but sell the services for it. If my memory serves me right it has something to do with MTCR. Similar thing happened with German leasing of Heron drones, for example.

There is this saying, "choosing a fighter jet is choosing the pact you are in" :-) 5G is very similar to that as the cities get smarter, everything will be connected to a mainframe and he who controls the network would control the entire infrastructure of the country, hence why Americans are...

AFAIK most of -SAN's have been working on alternative suppliers in case of a Western embargo. There is a long list of Chinese and Russian companies for subcomponents so I don't think this is a problem right now. The problem is, in the long term, Turkish defence industry is not profitable. And...

Integrating a missile without producer's input to a new VLS is usually cumbersome. Korea equips two different VLS systems into their ships, one is for firing American missiles whereas the other is used for their homegrown armament.

They are injecting capital. It is a mismanagement to let things come this way but this is how it is right now. Notice that there are hundreds of Turkish companies like this. We lack the necessary infrastructure for investment in newer technologies and believe me as someone who did deal with...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAAMS AEGIS (and similar systems) are an offering of bundled systems together. PAAMS here is a better example since both Aster-15 and 30 uses active radar homing. I got some debugging to do but check it out as the Wiki article is mature enough for these questions.

In order to fire an SM-6, you need a Mk 41 VLS and a radar that would illuminate the target at launch. These are all matters of system engineering, ofc you can configure ÇAFRAD to guide an SM-6.

They are financing our defence industry as of now, we are not an economic juggernaut who can finance all of these fancy projects. We provide them a stable defence industry ecosystem in case they get sanctioned and provide them with boots on the ground if needed, and in return they make the...

This is the story they want to sell to their public. We are against the French and the EU in general in Libya, but the trouble for them is whom they have sided with is an illegitimate putschist general. So what do you think they are going to say, that they are supporting a coupist general who is...

I am aware of that. I just don't think that neither this design is final nor it is official as of now. The project hasn't officially started yet. I also think we won't see TF-100 as a separate class either. We are just not that rich to employ 3 different frigate classes. IMO we would procure...

If this design is finalized we should also expect a Naval 3D search radar (something like SMART-L) by Aselsan as their current offerings are very limited in range for such a platform. I wonder how Barbaros MLU will look like, sure enough most of the electronic suite will get replaced. Maybe we...

There is no final design yet. We don't even know what kind of missiles TF-2000 would offer, so nobody knows this kind of stuff. Thinking about AEGIS can lead us to make an educated guess though. The class would probably use ESSM for over the horizon engagements and possibly a Hisar-U(?)...

Honestly, I don't think we would ever see a third batch Altay's. The budget is tight and there are more important programs to procure. And in all fairness I think our tank filotilla is enough for now. We desperately need new ships though.