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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...

TAI and ENAER, Chile's national airspace company signed an MoU to work on UAVs. Anka and Aksungur models on the table. Chile does have a huge EEZ and a Chinese fishing ships problem they are trying to curb.

HAVELSAN, VN Maritime and Piloda Defence: strategic agreement for the production of manned, unmanned and hybrid surface platforms in Italy. https://www.havelsan.com/en/news/havelsan-vn-maritime-and-piloda-defence...

They probably delivered more missiles. Aselsan has Siper, Roketsan delivers the rockets.

Regarding the new big boy, there have been no info released as far as i can see. Fatih says the same as well. Have fun counting pixels to figure out dimensions but it won't be anything official.

I'm sure Macedonians will get 1-4 T625s. It won't mean much for the future of the program. Civil certification will be what makes or breaks the long term success of TAI's helicopter division; whether it will be few models with 50-100+ produced each or a successful long time line that can pay for...

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.