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Your comment made me think about our proposed air defense system and realize that it indeed looks very formidable. You've got the Hisar A-O-U systems for 15km, 25km and 40km (?) targets, a very valuable and modern SAM system by itself. Then you've got the S400 batteries for a much wider field...

I suppose it depends on whether we need stealth or not. Because buying into a non NATO system comes with huge headaches too. Like friend or foe systems, weapons and integration etc. We also expect the F35 to act as a sort of fleet commander because she's so integrate into other NATO systems...

Unfortunately it all comes down to what you can enforce. We're knee dip in political s.hit right now (thanks to our glorious leader) and every international matter will be overruled in favor of our rival - in every case. We'll see I suppose.

Turkey like all countries buys these jets in small batches (to manage price fluctuations). Every jet sold decreases the price. Maybe the final outcome is %3 overall (if you are including the US btw), but the reality is the price now. This is a controversial plane and the main attack vector on...

It's a bluff, I suggest you read up on Hakan Kılıç's Kokpit Aero articles concerning the F35. The gist of it is ; This is a major project and not subject to whims of politicians The F35's main strength lies in it's wide availability for NATO countries, which enable it to pretty much use...

This is undeniably great news. It's refreshing to see potential a sub-sub system industry growing inside Turkey without the need of government orders. This shows that investors from around the world deem the Turkish aerospace industry is promising and thus worthy of investment.

What does the part I've highlighted even mean?

This is kind of baffling. Why wouldn't the they want to join the TFX where Turkey is already committed to spend godawful amounts of money and be done with it? If they find Turkey to be an unreliable partner why not partner with Sweden also? It seems bizarre that Sweden want's to go alone in...

Valla beni ilgilendiren üç unsur var ; Diplomatik olarak ülkemizi yeniden ciddi ve hak ettiği şekilde savunabilecek bir lider / parti / ne zıkkımsa, pazar palyaçolarından bıktım. Maalesef 3 aday da birbirinin kopyası gibi bu konuda :( Türkiye'nin ha öyle ha böyle başladığı dev projelerin...

Na, just a random model the 3d Visualization guy found on the internet probably. Turkey doesn't have the fleet power nor the aircraft to make a carrier feasible. I'm not even touching the cash part :)

To be fair that was always the case. No one cares who died, modern day memorials are monuments of power and will. For example, even in the second world war there were more people killed then just the jews alone yet no one even mentions them. It's come to a point where most people think the...

@Inspector Spacetime and @Otonom Piyade So are we to just ignore that such a complex and important project is being handed out to BMC with a majority share (and by majority I don't mean 1% 5% or even 10%, the next highest shareholder is at 20% lower shares). I don't get why we have TEI if...

What the hell?? This is a blatant ripoff. BMC who hasn't proven itself even in land machines is getting %55 of the new jet motor company that is probably the future of this country. This is akin to treachery, it's ridiculous. TEI, the actual company that was founded SPECIFICALLY for this job...

Because enforcing such a will is very hard when you have the US (which means Israel and Egypt) and EU (Cyprus) in the area. Turkey has grown strong militarily and politically but she's still not strong enough to bully her way through controlling the Mediterranean.

Silly proposition as it stands. East Flank : Georgia : No problem (until we have a problem with Russia) Armenia : No problem (until we have a problem with Russia) West Flank : Greece : Minor disputes being blown out of proportion by both countries because : politics. No chance of a proper...

We're able to produce 12 of these annually if I'm not mistaken. If the deal was to go through would TAI divide the production up by 6 + 6? Then again there was talks of tech transfer and Pakistani manufacturing too.

I'm not so pessimistic. This fighter might be used by the UK too so they'll want to showcase their best tech on it. We're not just buying intellectual rights and know-how from the UK, we're (unofficially) creating a "joint strike fighter" of sorts. I'll bet they'll officially jump on board when...

The last line was saddening. The US, an ally (not friend - straight up ally) doesn't want to sell Turkey the "top of the grade missiles" for the patriot systems "under any circumstances" - yet they expect Turkey to roll over on the s-400 deal. Pathetic to be honest.

So if the F35B is VTOL care to guess what these will be for?

Thank you Can, you're a wealth of information as always :)