Recent content by AlperTunga

And do you think it is a good idea to invest money on hundreds of TB2? Is this really the best use of that money?

Well stated. One of the reasons I live abroad is thousands of street dogs in Turkey. The other one you already mentioned….

I wasnt really in the mood to post any message today but can you tell me what kind of message we are giving with TB2??

I dont think Russia will be completely defeated. Russia has vast resources, some technological knowhow, nuclear power, China as kind of an ally, and possibility to maintain war economy long time. So Europe will need us sometime. Merz is indeed right that we are in a new geopolitical phase. We...

Which infrastructure? Hangars? Or some gadgets to repair and upkeep the planes? Or oil filter etc?? Fed up with this logistics bs. Lets agree they caught us in a weak moment and exploited it. And then move on.

The pain is still there :)

A meteor missile costs 2m $. Even if we buy 300 it makes 0.6 bn. We dont need any other munition. For that money we should have obtained the right to integrate our own munition. Even if we buy a whole plain in spare parts 40 * 120m € makes about 5bn €. So we have been screwed big time! As Öztürk...

Against Israel, Greece. And to invade Iran and even against Russia in a land war in Caucasus. I am dead serious.

I hope they make public some details of the deal otherwise this thing somehow leaves a bad taste. If we indeed have access to the code to probably also integrate Murad in the future, we should try to buy some more Tranche 3 second hand.

Is this stated somewhere officially?

I am not sure that 12 Qatar plus 12 Oman EFs will quickly close the shortfall. The Omani ones will need some upgrade, especially on the radars, which will take time. I am disappointed with Qatar that they are not offering us 24 planes. If the 20 new EFs are only coming in 2030, then we'll still...

Oman EFs have Captor-M which is a mechanical radar installed in Tranch 3A. We should aim for Qatari ones with Captor-E AESA, unless an upgrade of the radar is not costly. 24 Qatari EF plus 40 new EFs should be the bridging goal. Otherwise they wont give us flexibility to integrate our own stuff...

Our enemies indeed dont need any provocation to be our enemies :) But still, if we had continued with drills in East Med or escalated the rhetoric against Greece, Germany would probably not have approved EF sales to Turkey. And indeed US was supporting PKK all along but still F35s were almost on...

Turkey's enemies are acting now because we have provoked them unnecessarily. If we didn't say "one minute" to that country and didn't buy S400 we might have 80 F35 by now. And if we were clever enough, we would have modernized our F16 fleet by now as well. At the end of the day, if we aspire to...

Indeed, our early involvement in Libya, Syria, Somalie etc. did not bring any benefit to us. In Libya we were not strong enough to push back Russia and Egypt, in Somalia we are fighting with UAE. We should get involved in such places if we are strong enough and then push to the very end and not...