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But there's nothing to indicate any loss of power from the aircraft. I kind of agree with general's statement: "Today's HAL Tejas Mk1A crash in Dubai. Sadly, the pilot lost his life. RIP. It's a situation similar to the crash in Poland. Meanwhile, our F-4 pilots narrowly escaped disaster in...

Aircraft can leak oil, I vividly remember the US aggressor F-18s leaking oil on the ramp like drunkards. Some say that was not oil but water instead, also possible. Regardless, it's an active duty aircraft of the air force without known issues. Tejas is many things, but it doesn't just lock up...

Looks to be pilot; even if aircraft gave in midway through, too low. RIP.

Back to Erdoğan statement from 2023: 2028 for KE with TF6K makes sense.

All other f-35s by their nature are "downgraded" F-35s compared to Israeli F-35Is.

HISTORIC TRIAL FOR BAYRAKTAR KIZILELMA: LOCKED ONTO AN F-16, SCORED A DIRECT HIT IN SIMULATED FIRE! Türkiye’s first unmanned fighter aircraft, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, has carried out yet another historic test in the sky. In the test conducted with the participation of two F-16 fighter jets of the...

Indeed, Akrep-1000G is multifunction radar capable of undertaking search duties as well: "AKREP 1000-G is a radar system developed with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) architecture, capable of both rotating and stationary operation, performing search and precision tracking...

Yeah you're right i think. Only İzmir will probably be delivered within the timeline. They weren't saying all ships would be delivered together but back to back within few months of each other, still, delayed.

I think it just means it's not a theater level engagement of the battery but unit level one. We also can't see the search radar(ALP-300G); only the fire control radar(Akrep-1000G) on the video. It's a test of a "blinded" Siper battery without access to its search radar's or of any other systems...

Transfer to navy ownership, "commissioning". Program aim is to deliver them to the navy.

İzmir and İzmit's fitting out is going nicely. Looks like on the mast, only the Cenk radars are missing. For İzmir, 2026H1 is aimed, for İzmit it should be 2026H2 or early 2027 with İçel to follow by late 2027. This seems to fit the 36 months program that was signed in January 2023.

They've been working on a revolver type 35mm, similar to KDG. Some of the weapon systems showcased over the years require the smaller footprint of the revolver to exist. Non surprisingly, all those systems also went nowhere, because they have no guns as MKE is yet to show it.

MKE is developing that 35mm gun for the last 6 or 8 years. Not one single test shown so far. We only got a carbon copy of Rheinmetall gun's turret design.

Fidan on live, mentioned Qatari EF transfers going forward smoothly.

Suffice to say there will be more than one Gezgin. It can't be air, ground and surface launched at the same time, that's a waste of resources.