Recent content by Nutuk

Nope UK selling the EF2000 has nothing to do with else Turkiye would go for Russian or Chinese (UK would not care) Starmer told exactly why they are happy to sell the EF2000, this way they keep the production lines running and they are bridging the time till GCAP can be ready. Stopping...

I think with unmanned yes, since other countries will also bank on unmanned fighter jets. Having our own ANKA and Kizilelma is a big plus for us.

That is a very assumptious estimation, with all the F16's and F4's we have never surpassed 300 fighter jets, and frankly I do not believe we will even go above 200 in the future. With 5th and later 6th generation the shift is going to fighter jets with "loyal wingman drones" = less manned jets...

It touches the flag, does that mean it can be used for instance to kill drones in the air???

The media and also SSM is presenting this as a sale which is misleading. There is currently no contract or sale, but there is a serious interest and a MOU has been signed to look into 48 + 12 sale. Both sides are going to do studies whether they can come to an agreement, this involves from...

I am tended to see this as Indonesia using these MOU's to negotiate a more favorable price for the KF21. I have my doubts that Indonesia is really interested in Kaan

Not possible, US does not even give access to maintain certain parts of the aircraft.

It's a dead end now, Turkiye should not even want it anymore. US is totally unreliable now

It is a good aircraft, that is not the problem. The problem is the US control. What if the US turns it unusable at a time we are at war? The enemy would not even have to take any effort to cope with your air force. Now some of you would say, why would our "ally" US do such. What if the enemy...

Technology transfer. The time we've produced F35 parts we did improve our machine parks, we did produce at high quality level. We did apply composite structures. Our experiences in building F16's and F35 sections brought us the technology to develop Kaan. These knowledges don't fall from the sky.

You just have to look what ALIS is. Taken from open source internet: "ALIS receives Health Reporting Codes while the F-35 is still in flight via an radio frequency downlink." Now if an aircraft can downlink data, it can also uplink data. Just think what Israel could do with stuxnet and the...

If everyone is afraid about an F35 kill switch than it is something more than speculation.

Well I would liked to have agreed with you but facts are there, first proto of the Altay was in 2012, 13 years later still not in production. Is anything but success, no matter if in the meantime some minor upgrades have been made

I remember we ware making fun of the Indian Arjun tank project. With Altay we managed worse than the Indians