Okey this is getting annoying even for me, and im like the biggest Anti-AKP person here. Politics should be discussed when its directly related to the topic at hand, this is just reaching for straws.
There is zero chance we will win this. These types of tenders are purely political. As their future fighter aircraft procurement had shown clearly, they will choose American options purely for geopolitical reasons even though an European Aircraft won the tender. Plus it just makes more sense to...
North Korea poses a bigger threat to world peace then Turkey ever will be, and you seem to have no probme support that. Us supporting some regional group is not even remotely comparable. So why dont you **** of ching chong.
How? We dont even have remotely the capacity to pose any threat to world peace. Seems just politically motivated and xenophobic rather then an actual belief among Germans.
There is some underlining truth to this. While the regular F-35A orders arent that particularly important as there are plentyfull of alternatives to consider, the naval F-35B model has no competitor unless you want to seriously downgrade to the old harriers. With the TCG Anadolu soon to be...
Is it even possible to upgrade the older A/B model to V standard? Dont think so, and even if it was then you could aswell buy new aircrafts with the pricetag that comes attached with it.
This seems like an incredibly stupid idea. The Pakistani navy does not have the neccesary vessels and firepower to protect such an important asset, this certainly wont chance around 2020 or even many years after considering the budget limitations.
I think some personel preference is involved in making this list.
1. TCG Anadolu LHD. Almost a must-have for any regional to project its might.
2. S-400/Hisar/Siper Air Defence Systems. A nation achilles heel is its inability to protect its sky.
3. ATMACA Anti-Ship Missile. Also a neccesity...
The Sabra's are already upgraded with Aselsan Pulat APS. The Leopard2A4's are currently part of the modernization efforts. The M60A3's upgrade doesnt make much sense until you realize that the producation of Altay is still a year or two away, and the production capacity/rate would mean that we...
Idlib can be written off already. The moment that HTS became the dominant group in Idlib there was very little that Turkey could or was even willing to do to take it back. We will probably trade Idlib in for North-Western Syria and the safe zone, which makes sense. I am staunchly against these...
Exactly. No matter what happened we would have been the bad guy in that scenario had we not retreated. If we stayed and used force we would be seen as the aggresors invader who kills the local population. This played out better then people think it did. The only true damage appears to be that to...
Its not a military base, its a hastely put together FOB. There are reports that the soldiers were equipt with non-lethal weapons for the most part, so even if they wanted to they probably couldnt have done much. Temporarly losing an FOB isnt much of a problem, its the soldiers life that matter...