Recent content by Sanchez

Probably, that's what they usually do.

Secretary general's job isn't to create policy; it's to keep everyone on a near footing. His biggest job is keeping Trump happy, Erdoğan in check and Orban non relevant. He's honestly doing a great job so far. I applaud the guy.

Nazis lost and all those subs were sunk by superior air power and convoy tactics; and they lost the war because allies could simply build more than what nazis could sink. Lesson here isn't "build more subs", it's "don't be at war with a land superpower and US at the same time" --- None of what's...

Navy has been studying SSNs for a decade and have been writing about them openly for 3-4 years. Nükden was presented last year. You're aware that France!! is a UN security council permanent member and a nuclear triad owner for about 60 years, right?

It's Baykar's world. Interestingly K2s are numbered, PT1, PT2, PT3, S4 and S5.

There's no point to do all that without a carrier on top. Tepe Class is built around the radar suite. It was a 6500 ton ship 5-7 years ago with 48-64 cells. It grew more in size due to navy requirements. In a hot war 48 cells will be enough for a single engagement, they will burn through...

I have another road I want to mention here. For Anadolu, Sedef used Navantia's design and Sedef was the main contractor. This new deal is directly between navy and Navantia, cutting Sedef out. Because Navantia provided direct expertise to Sedef; Navantia was on paper the junior partner but in...

Navantia and Navy shipyards command signed a deal for Anadolu's further maintenance. "Signed on 8 April in Ankara, the agreement establishes a flexible contractual structure enabling the Turkish Navy to procure maintenance, repair and technical services from Navantia on a periodic or as-needed...

Trump declared a blockade for every ship passing through the strait no matter their original port of call. This is more than what Germans did in 1915 or 1940 against UK. It's what Houthis did in 2023-25. That was piracy. This is also piracy.

There's no pipeline project on horizon to revert all gulf oil via pipelines; it's impossible as well.

It's also directly piracy. Stopping and then boarding 3rd party neutral ships who are not related to the conflict at hand is piracy.

To clarify, no LST is currently in production. As I understand it in the last SSİK, it was decided that two more Bayraktars would be procured. They are not yet ordered. So they are not in production. We talked about this 2 months ago. Currently Bayraktar Class LSTs don't have a hangar, only a...

"Turkiye to take part in US Africa Command's military exercise Operation Flintlock this month - part will be held for 1st time in Libya Turkiye has taken part before - but seems significant w/ Libya saying its participation supports 'the unification of the military institution'"

Anadolu is not a supercarrier, it's an LHD. In wartime she won't send out sorties of fixed wing aircraft left and right; she will send helicopter groups. Sortie generation and spacing is a problem for all carriers. TB3 launch and retrieval operations can take up to 15-20 minutes for each...

Maybe then we wouldn't need to offload the near completed Istifs...