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Hmm, it looks like the US is shifting the attention to Patriots instead of F35's. So when Turkey inevitably purchases the s-400 systems the US can go on and say they've "punished" this action by denying the sales of patriots and all is well while the F35 program continues. Looking at it from...

We need air defenses ASAP, preferably last year, or even 10 years before today. While we also need fighter jets to replace our F4's there are other options available (that aren't ideal, but they'll do for now). We could use a gap filler until the TF-X while also not giving the USA another card...

Why do you chose to be the way you are? The project belongs to Aselsan and was co-developed by both Aselsan and BAE systems with Aselsan being the main contractor. How did you manage to twist this into "This system belong to BAE, Aselsan has limited contribution"?

This is misleading. I was the one that started this argument when I said "why don't the Azeris buy these systems from Turkey". I said that about land vehicles - not the green pine radar or iron dome. You're moving the goalposts here - Turkey is very well suited to supply Azerbaijan with land...

Is there a reason Azerbaijan is hell bent on purchasing from anyone but Turkey?

Interesting POV, food for thought.

Yep, that's the first thing that became apparent when I drew the borders. Though I still think that if we manage to get this zone with no operation (no fighting) then we can focus on helping Assad get the SDF under control before what you say becomes true. That would be the best win for us imo...

This is an approximation of course.

Still a win, imagine forcing SAM's with cheap drones. You can effectively over saturate them - or even sacrifice the drone for other gains. It's still a very valuable win. Effective anti drone systems aren't in the market yet (i.e. the current solutions are way to expensive to be considered...

I remember them denying any deal around a month ago - seems it was true back then too. This is great news IMO. It widens the export portfolio of Turkey's armed products and legimitizes them as a whole. It's good to remember that not all US weapons are "top notch" - but the ones that actually...

So is Malaysia next?

8 (+10 optional). So if all goes well it might go up to 18 in total.

Along with the T1, T2 and T3 variants a single (1) unmanned version is going to be made (unmanned as in fully without personnel). I'm guessing the next gen of Altay will have 2 variants, one slightly lighter drone version with the other a proper MBT as todays Altay is.

Do you have a source for this?

The EU is regulating against diesel cars in a very aggressive way now - so they're looking at countries to offload their old tech to. I.E. Turkey and the near east. I'll be surprised if the plants are heavily tooled for electric and gasoline engines.

Those were my illustrations I'd done a couple of months back. They're done in Illustrator, so no "auto" site or program sorry :( Actually I'd really like to refresh them with new info and missiles / bombs and other armaments in which range makes sense (for example Hürkuş, Atak etc. etc.) But I...

He's trying very hard to sound objective at the start, but the last 2 paragraphs are a shit show and he's off the rails there. The article points out that nothing the Turks hold dear can be trusted and all Turkish values (be it religion, nationalism or patriotism) are the root of all that is...

In a competition between the T129 and the chinese Z-10 I'm pretty sure they'll chose the ATAK, China has lost this round in that class of heli's. But both Russia and the US will want to swoop in, so I'm not sure what chance ATAK will have against those.

2 LHD's in the same fleet? I would have guessed two fleets built around each one.

I agree with all your assesment except for this one. Russia (and China) would be over the moon to sell us their latest avionic machines, but that would be of little value to us unfortunately. Our whole military system is networked and relies HEAVILY on being so. In this age it's unthinkable to...