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Nope, just one part of the system that stopped the Russian advances on its track. They are only one of the reasons why Russians are stuck in the east 4 years later.

Looks like it's already kitted out for ambulance duties; very nice. Surely it took a very long while to decide on the internal layout; this is a good sign. -- I'm sure TAI will be more than willing to produce that many if they place orders.

Official minutes actually mention the delay as well: There's lots of back and forth and hopefully more to come but there are no new deals so far.

Gökbey ambulance variant made its first flight. Unsure if this is a new build or a converted prototype. 3 T625s are supposed to be delivered to Health Ministry this year.

As I understand it, there's no new deal signed and the deal committee talked about last week is from 2022. Everything listed here is past deals. Production of E-jets in Turkey, Roketsan relationship, jet engines being KTJ-3200 for MANSUP-ER etc. There's no new deal regarding a joint production.

Missed this one. Romanian court suspends €46m penalty claim against Otokar https://turdef.com/article/romanian-court-suspends-46m-penalty-claim-against-otokar

I'm not posting the photo as it's gnarly but there's possible human remains on one of the C-130 wrecks. Increases possibility that aircraft was hit on the ground and that was the reason they had to ditch at least one of them.

Those are carbon fiber propellers, they don't bend on collision, they break. They clearly lost form due to high heat from the fire; which actually supports the claim that they were hit on the ground. We have 2 MC-130s and at least 2 MH-6s sitting right next to each other as wrecks. They were...

Numbers, training and firepower. This is not even in contention. French cannot even do a major airlift without American assistance. Brits don't even try. You could say don't start a war over a mountainous country in the first place, but it is what it is. Numbers we have are 2 MC-130s, 2-4...

French have shown in the past that they don't have the capability in Africa during Barkhane and Serval other than the most simples CSAR ops and Brits simply don't have the capability.

Closest I think would be the Entebbe Raid and they had a fully functioning airport and the earlier failed Eagle Claw, also in Iran. Funny thing; CV-22 was entirely sold and later developed as a tailor built platform to combine the best sides of a cargo aircraft and a helicopter and it would be...

If half of what's been written since last night is true then this is the greatest SOF raid of this century; god damn. Iranians are clueless. They brought in MH-6 Little Birds stuffed inside C-130s to use as fire support.

All our systems already come with EO. Systems like 358 are cheap and somewhat mobile but there lies the issue. They are only good for drones and potshots against enemies of which you know their locations so you can ambush them. It's not a winning strategy; it's a hailmary. If you are down to...

It's nothing new, it's what they worked on for years in Iraq, Yemen, by giving them to PKK in Syria and now in Iran. There's a reason why they are only successful on bringing down Reapers; they use EO based SAMs like the 358.

Block 30s will also receive Özgür-2.