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Easy there tiger, I said IF you guys start killing Uyghurs. Obviously that's not gonna happen anytime soon on a large scale. China's smarter than that. Also. In terms of the USA? Don't doubt the USAs guts once hostilities break out. The USA and China obviously have a lot of reasons to avoid...

Well from what I'm seeing, it's already inevitable that the army will step in. Any Egyptians on the forum that are familiar with the issue?

Our? They're not ethnically Chinese. I don't consider Uyghurs to fall into the category of say, Azeris and Özbeks. While they are Turkic peoples too, it's a much further connection but still unacceptable. You sound a lot like us Turks talking about Kurds. It's a "terror problem" not the...

I'm not that familiar with Egyptian politics. Many people came out and said that there would not be a civil war say in, Turkey when the protests happening because obviously thats not close to happening in Turkey. Nobody is ruling that out in Egypt though unfortunately and that's what scares me...

Egyptian Logic. Mubarek? Military dictator. Bad --> Army ruling the country? Military dictators. Bad. --> Muhammed Morsi? Freely elected leader? Oh, no no no, bad. --> Military takes over again, Good??????!!!!!! Nice guys. Keep it up.

Anyways. I have respect for China. You guys back up Pakistan and scare the **** out of India. Just don't forcefully assimilate the Uyghurs and all is well between us.

ONLY? People usually don't die in protests.

Good. Our soldiers have looked ridiculous in their poorly-fitted, 20th century looking, non-protected uniforms for long enough

This is good news. Having anti-tank vehicles is ideal for Turkey since our border is so long, we cant station expensive tanks everywhere. This way we can take out our neighbors' obsolete tanks for cheap and by the hundreds.

I don't think IFF is a problem, more so it wouldn't be able to send-receive data with the NATO systems. I think Turkey's motive in this is exactly the opposite of integrating it into the NATO system. Turkey has always worried and will always worry about a stab in the back from the West, I...

And an idiot.

Will someone explain to me how this guy hasn't been banned for racism? I get it the Pakistanis aren't personally offended, and I'm not the most Arab loving person myself but comeon! "BARBARIAN BEDOUINS?"

Good, yes. Great? no. In general US Air Doctrine is big on BVR combat, so the major factors of A2A combat of any USAF/USN fighter are avionics, counter-measures, and missiles. -USA has the best avionics and missiles probably. It's not a stealth plane nor super-maneuverable but given the...

Gotcha. I didn't know what it stood for, ive heard of it. So smaller contributors just basically have their entire force built into the command structure or is it just a small reaction force?

PSA? whats that?

Need for cockpit overhaul sounds like a euphemism for saying "we're correcting our inexperience." I'd say the glass is half-full, its good they're addressing the problems before its first flight, rather than after production.

Are you asking about its dogfighting capability? Aka within visual range A2A combat? I wouldn't go out and make a statement that Close Air Support is it's primary role. Carrier fleet defense is its number one role.

This deal will never happen. China is still too cozy with Russia for Azerbaijan to buy fighters from them. After all, the only airforce in the region that the Azeris need to worry about is the Russian one.

This is the problem with having a large, but less well equipped land army. Each soldier is less effective so you need a lot more and at the end of the day you end up paying all you have to just maintain it, forget getting new stuff. Add into that the enormous cost of strategic weapons and...

First of all, thanks for having a serious discussion about this and not killing me because of what I said. You're definitely right in that I'm assuming that they will drop their ambitions and you're assuming the opposite. Until we see what happens its just a matter of competing opinions. Just a...