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Sorry, but you seem to misunderstand the situation. Turkish officials have repeatedly claimed that they have secured GE F110 engines only for prototypes (interestingly, American sides have not confirmed such sale) and plan to develop a domestic turbofan engine for TF-X, not just APU & ATSS...

Mr. Sunnetci who is an editor of Defence Turkey Magazine reports that Turkey (TR Motor) indeed is interested in co-developing a new turbofan engine based on Al-322 (not Al-222, he misspelled it) with Ivchenko-Progress. With CEO claiming that the constructed prototype will undergo ground tests...

And thank you for participating in the dicussion with me in a civil manner. I appreicate your input, @mjting01. I understand where you are coming from as DND has a final say on who has won the contract and reserves a right to make such announcement, but even bloggers could observe the progress...

I agree with you that MaxDefense's reports should be taken with a grain of salt, but he has also correctly reported Philippines defense news. It looks like MD is popular, not just beause of his political affiliation and bias, but his speculation based alleged sources from the industry and DND...

I am interested in this as well. Maxdefense Philippines (I am sure you know him) reports in September that it looks like TAI cannot deliever the Turkish-Italian attack helicopters (T-129) to DND & PAF within the promised timeframe (Sept to Oct of this year) and he also claims that his 'source'...

"The MMU/TF-X Block-0, Block-I (2029) and Block-II (2032) aircraft will be powered by General Electric’s F110 Turbofan Family (probably F110- GE-129E version due to twin-engine configuration), and starting from Block-III (2035) the aircraft will gain true 5th Generation capabilities with...

LOL. The Chinese ethno-nationalist who thinks the military incursion against ROC is justified accuses people of making a 'nationalist rant'? Are you seriously this inept in recognizing your own hypocrisy? Diplomatically, you want to make friends, not enemies. However, PRC is in dispute with...

Nice try, only if America was at Cold War with the rest of the world. Number of Chinese American : 5,143,982 Number of American in China : About 72,000 Number of Chinese Australia : 1,213,903 Number of Australian in China : About 15,000 Number of Chinese Canadian : 1,769,195 Numbe of...

It is weird that a guy that has the flag of the country that is more blatantly at Cold War with PRC makes such accusation. Why so many Chinese desperately want to migrate to the US, Australia and Canada when Chinese manifest so much hatred for them? I really don't understand Chinese's...

Yes, I am happy that PRC is shooting own foot diplomatically. Perhaps, the shortsighted PRC supporters don't understand there is ramification of military provocation. The people & countries on the fence will be aggitated with China's military theats and it will further encourage them to...

Not exactly comparable, methinks. From my understanding, Komodo is a bit heavier & larger vehicle than Vamtac. And does Komodo have a certification for STANAG armor level 3 protection? Maybe the Indonesian army needed a relatively lighter vehicle with the certification. Hence, Indoneisa has...

I wonder how much Indonesia has agreed to pay per vehicle. URO VAMTAC is a great vehicle. No question about that. However, It is not extraordinary either. Its selling point has always been one of the cheapest Western armoued military vehicles that offer STANAG armor level 3 and I am surprised...

The 47% effectiveness after 6 months against the target virus is pretty decent . The usual flu vaccine's effectiveness also drops significantly after 6~9 months. Definitely better than no protection.

No country has successfully upgraded a 4.5 gen fighter jet to a 6 gen fighter jet, let alone a 5 gen fighter jet. Just more pipe dream from Korean officials. The country doesn't even have an allocated budget to upgrade KF-21 to a 5th gen fighter, which would require drastic design changes, money...

The CCP probably understands that a full scale war against Republic of China will likely cause a full-scale war with the US, especially when TSMC, Fomasa Plastics, Giant, Foxconn and other Taiwanese copanies stay relevant in the industry. PRC will continue dick around and beat his chests to...

Who is 'you'? China has certainly been testing the waters with those military aggressions. China gains pretty much nothing out of those unnecessary military exercises and only futher pushes countries to join the anti-China coalition. I highly doubt there will be a full-scale invasion by PRC...

Such an unnecessary provocation.

Another interesting aspect of TAI Hurjet is its payload. I don't know how exactly TAI have calculated the estimated payload of Hurjet, but according to their website, the advanced trainer jet will have a payload capacity of 2721 kg (6000 lbs). This is significantly lower than other aircraft...

Probably British on transmission and Korean for integration of powerpack. However, I believe the engine itself is mostly indigenous. It would be interesting to see how the Turkish powerpack actually performs against the competition (if they ever mass-manufacture the engine and transmission)...

The title is not only sensationalist, but also misleading. The US hasn't admitted that they are at fault and asked Turkey to re-engage in the negotiation over the F-35 program. It is just Mr. Demir's insistance that the US has tacitly accepted that Turkey's removal of the program has no legal...