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Everyone is good at everything, all that is required is hard work and diligence. Instead we get stronger countries meddling in smaller and weaker ones so that an atmosphere of peace, stability and prosperity never materializes. Take any country in the world, any genetic mix and ANY culture /...

The Gripen is on my "all time favorites" list for fighter jets and I have immense respect for Swedes for coming up with it. Like some of the countries in the region Sweden could've laid back, funneled the money to other needs and depended on the EU and US to defend her if any need arose - but...

I'm saddened that we've ordered these cars from China directly. The least we could've done was ask them to be produced locally with a Turkish firm as a partner. Missed opportunities.

Do we have any plans to build manufacturing capabilities to fabricate these chips or will they produced in (likely) China for example?

You're gravely mistaken about the numbers here. Jet engines are built in very small numbers and quantities over an extended period of time. They're not like other commodities that are built in huge numbers and batches. For example machining and hand crafting is often used in specialized jet...

This is the correct answer. From what I've read (on various online sources that I don't remember) it looks like TRMOTOR is the "central hub" for the engine effort. Now how this "consortium" is going to distribute workload or even determine it with precise efficiency is unknown at this moment...

It's the same thing.

You're only thinking of air and naval assets though. A foreign base with land access to Saudi Arabia is a big deterrent and power projection multiplier if push comes to shove.

Minor corrections on the translation ; Altay Tank serial production contract is expected to be signed tomorrow. According to the announcement, the workload consists of the production of 250 units of the tank, and the first tank to come off the product line is expected to be 18 months after the...

Ok I stand corrected, I didn't know these projects had matured so early. This is going to be a classic but any info on the powerpack? @Test7 & @Silahtar

Both of these makes perfect sense seeing how the geopolitics are starting to shape in the area. +Oman would be perfect IMO, Yemen would be great too but I don't think we can manage to intervene there as both the US and Iran is heavily invested right now.

If this goes through Turkey's military base strategy looks like it's surrounding the Israel-Egypt-KSA area ;

I've seen bad articles, heavily opinionated ones and even outright propaganda pieces. But this honestly takes the cake. It's heavily biased, riddled with assumptions and to put the icing on the cake it's even factually wrong too. What a load of BS. Turkey doesn't have a measly $650 million for...

Supplied internally? I'm not aware of a project mature enough to hit the production line.

What are the steps involved in creating a 5th gen aircraft? Avionics? Radar? Weapon systems and controllers? Data links? Airframe? Engine? Stealth capabilities (ties into airframe and engine)? If you take a project like this and disassemble it into parts you can see that Turkey is actually...

This list puts into perspective what an enormous undertaking the Turkish Military complex was involved in. The amount of production capability and technology leap in this area is very impressive. I really hope we don't **** this up somehow.

Just to lay it out in a more readable manner (please correct me if I've got it wrong); Turkish engine programs Turbofan engines 17.000lbf class (licensed production of a 17k lbf engine to be used in the trainer jet (HürJet) project 27.000lbf class (to be used in the TF-X 5th gen stealth...

The current system with an artificial age of retirement is absolute bonkers and needs to be changed. BUT there is no economy model that will sustain 45 year old pensioners, that's obviously not the way to go too. I think the government should lift the age restriction altogether and at the same...

We've got absolute zero coverage about the ship for the last month or so (except small updates). Now, granted Turkey is in a very fast developing and huge economic crisis so the agenda is all focused on that - but still, if things where going smoothly I'd wager there would be updates. Then...

Initial capacity =/= resulting manufacturing capability. It will still take a considerable time to manufacture 250 planes, but I'd wager closer to 10.