Recent content by Ripley

😆 Why worry dude? Hey, as long as we can sell the plane to everyone like this, they can call it tel maşa as all I care 😅

The Spanish Air Force already adapted Hürjet and renamed it as Saeta II (Arrow II) to honor an old jet trainer fighter HA-200 Saeta designed and produced by Hispano. They apparently also were quick to outline a share of production and addition of local production plan...

I beg to differ noob 😏 Everyone knows when Christmas officially starts 👇🏼

Season greetings and a happy new year to you all from Ripley 😊

Come on NATO. You can do better. Get him 😜

There were rumors regarding this but nothing official of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-dies-aged-74 Fool If You Think It’s Over (1978) Yeah Chris, not over. Not yet. RIP sir 🥺

Nardoganınız kutlu olsun. Merry Nardıgan to everyone.

A 4500 ton USCGC cutter design from 2004 is beneath the USN budget waste criteria. Just wait and see how they bloat costs with added EW suites, weapon systems, ASW capabilities and what not and end up cancelling it somewhere along the road. If they move on and start this program, it wont be by...

A 4500 ton USCGC cutter design from 2004 is beneath the USN budget waste criteria. Just wait and see how they bloat costs with added EW suites, weapon systems, ASW capabilities and what not and end up cancelling it somewhere along the road. If they move on and start this program, it wont be by...

😅 The USN requirements from fire protectio, safety to mission profiles, from EW suites, HW to weapons systems are next to absurd for a frigate hull. No matter how you define a frigate. In modern sense, it’s not easy to define a frigate by its tonnage, size or strike capability or purpose. And...

Why would it? I simply wished for world peace initiate under his leadership and asked for a personal favor that coul’ve written as a sevap on my amel book (book of deeds) 😇😇😇

“When the Swiss asked about my German language level in my visa application for Switzerland 🤣”

i wonder if there’s a confusion of engine classifications here ‘cause I didn’t classify it as a military engine per se. I said it would have been ready for military use as long as it met the requirements of the operator which in our case, The Turkish Armed Forces 😉

AFAIK, for military use of an engine you don’t need any certification or civilian one for that matter. If an engine meets the designer’s goals and satisfies the user’s requirements, than that engine is ready for production. So, in that sense TS1400 was an engine ready for military use from the...