Good decision by Kazakhstan. Light tanks likely gives better Mobility and a good solution outside wartimes. Considering how the world changes, having versatile solutions is a good alternative to heaviliy investing in one or two things. Especially if they are looking to change to NATO standard...
How many Navalized jets do we have ? How many years experience of take og and landing on a carrier.
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So I don't think it's bad to get started anywhere.
Not necessarily at 5th gen
Let's see what happens. I imagine that if the price is right we'll still want them. But no one is going to overpay for 2nd hand EF unless we have no option. Maybe we'll do it in return for Hefty arms purchase to even it out. But it'll be after we secure Qatar deal.
I think Nutuk has a point worth brooding over. To be honest I was thinking after the collapse of SDF, we'd still be using next few years or more finding, mapping and demolishing those tunnels that has been dug.
And so far we only looked for tunnels around our borders and such. No one has been...
F16 is an allrounder. But we chose to go with EF because we don't want to be dependent on French whims. The past says it all.
Also given how the battlefield is changing I believe TAF has made their decision, and I'd like to believe it was the case ever since Qatar stationed some of their EF in...
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/european-troops-arrive-in-greenland-as-talks-with-us-highlight-disagreement-217906
The agreement with US and Denmark back in old times means US gets military supremacy, meaning they can build all the military bases they want to ensure US security, but...
Wouldn't adding small wings to the structure be possible where the pods can be added. To avoid any mainframe damage when cirits are launched.
Granted it doesn'require structural stress test and all the crap.
If it does mounted 12,7mm from the door will have to do.