When will they finally present the next prototype? It can't be rocket science.
Almost a year has passed now; they need to get a move on.
We need 50-60x Ugraded F-16 Özgur II, 24x Eurofighter and 10x TAI KAAN & Kizilelma + Anka 3 Aircraft (Total 30) by 2029/30 to send a signal to the outside world (Greece/Israel und Russia).
This should be at a minimum, and I'd like to challenge the number 50-60 F16 ÖZGÜR II. If our MURAD radar and other electronics, sensors etc. have reached a certain maturity such that we can begin integrating them serially to our F16s, what is preventing us to integrate them to 200 F16s? Is it a cost issue? Once you have designed and tested the radar, producing it should not cost much in terms of material. I assume 80% of the cost is R&D? If we promise ASELSAN we will be buying hundreds of them for F16, Kizilelma, ANKA and later also for KAAN of course, can we not get a good price, at least initially till KAAN production begins? If it is rather a production issue, why can we not use more materials, build a larger production facility, employ and train more people in the next years to increase production capacity? do we always need to think serially and react to needs instead of planning and arranging this things in advance? Finally, is it because we need to have permissions from L&M for different versions of F16? There is a lot of speculative info here.
TO SUM UP: If we have currently 230 F16s and we have the technology to upgrade them to ÖZGÜR II, we need to upgrade ALL (even if their remaining life is 10 years) ASAP. Anything else is not responsible behavior.
