US and Israel want to use their man Sisi against the rising Neo-Ottoman Alliance. PEOPLE of Egypt by and large have no problem with Turks, actually quite the contrary. We have a lot of shared interests in the Mediterranean, not to mention our long, mutual history. By arming himself to the teeth...
It's only "man made" if China can somehow be blamed for it, otherwise it's "natural".
Fact of the matter is that it was most likely originated in their own labs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapons_program
Pretty sure the first 3 Pakistani Milgems will have Aselsan's Smart-S 3D radars produced under license from Thales NL, with Turkish T/R modules. 4th Milgem may have a PK variant of CAFRAD that Turkey's been developing for the TF-2000.
In the meantime, Egypt's GDP per capita is $2500 and it has requested economic aid from the IMF just this past week. But hey, making sure that "billionaire American defense corporations" are happy is the price a dictator has to pay to stay in power...
A few years ago Turkey showed a lot of interest and investigated the KF-X option. But the Koreans were unwilling to make Turkey a full partner with IP/re-export rights, nationalize certain components, use indigenous weapons/missiles, etc. It also had a lot of reliance on US-based subsystems...
TF-X is fully 5th-gen. It has all the key 5th-gen features:
Stealth
Internally stored missiles
AESA radar, EOTS
Data fusion & Network-centric warfare
Twin engines with supercruise
Before relations with the US went south over their Middle East policy, the idea was to use the F-35 as a...
In the long run, AZM or TF-X are the best choices for Pakistan. As a Turk, of course I'd love to see our Pakistani brothers join the TF-X program as a full and equal member with all the IP rights and TOT, similar to the Milgem/Ada-class contract. That way we'll always have spare parts and a very...
Okay, but how will it perform in a modern battle theater with heavy ECM? What does it do when it can't transmit/receive radio signals from base, or GPS satellites? This is a general problem with many unmanned platforms.
Also, this thing gas a puny 105mm cannon on it. Most modern tanks carry 120mm cannons and are completely immune to 105mm. Hell, some tanks with reactive, addon composite armor, and APS are immune to even 120mm. Calling this thing a "tank hunter" is an insult to tanks everywhere.
My thoughts exactly. That's 67 MILLION a piece. That's ridiculous for essentially a wheeled APC with a tank-cannon on top.
And let's be frank. A modern tank can destroy this thing just as well as it can destroy a tank. Except a tank has actual tracks. a bigger cannon and a much better armor.
Unfortunately we have a lot of STUPID MOTHERFUUCKERS in Turkey who view this as America doing a "positive" thing for Turkey rather than negative. They lack the mental facilities to comprehend the fact that every US military handout (second hand surplus junk) meant Turkey doesn't develop the...
Al Monitor is a clearly biased and anti-Turk publication owned by a Lebanese-American (i.e. Armenian) and financed by vehemently anti-Turkish Gulf capital. Nothing they write reflects the truth.
This douche bag called "Metin Gurcan" is just another anti-Turkish "Burak Ege Bokdil" who writes...
According to American scientific/engineering magazine Popular Mechanics, after YEARS of expensive development it turns out the F-35 still can't fly supersonic for more than a few seconds per flight because "it erodes its stealth coating and makes it detectable by radar". Just another issue to...
Thank you sir.
Quality over quantity, perhaps? :)
Jokes aside, maybe it has something to do with featuring a higher endurance (days at sea) than comparable ships of the same weight class.