Recent content by Sanchez

Yup, Romanians asked for near impossible timelines, Otokar bit the bullet to undercut other 7 or so rivals. I think it was a calculated gamble on their end and they accepted the possible penalties. 860 million tender, 40 million fine.

Anadolu Task Group is being reactivated again. 4 ships, 4 seas, 3 months, 5 joint exercises with partners. "In accordance with our commitments to NATO; - The headquarters of the NATO Amphibious Task Force Command and Landing Force Command (CATF/CLF), - TCG Anadolu, TCG Derya, TCG İstanbul...

"Our Minister will receive the CEO of BAE Systems and the British Ambassador to Ankara today. Our Air Force Commander is scheduled to travel to Qatar on January 18-19 for a trilateral meeting with the British and Qatari Air Force Commanders regarding the Typhoon aircraft procurement.”...

US officials: We want to see Turkey and Israel start to rebuild their relationship - Reuters

There's no data to prove any of these claims.

Heavy diplomacy going on behind the curtains. Fidan met with Barrack, talked to Iran two times and today is in UAE all in 36 hours. I think Turkey is pushing for reforms in Iran to avoid a US strike and things going out of hand more.

US tells its citizens to leave Iran and to never actually go to Iran every 2 weeks. This in itself is nothing new. It does have an army, just that it's very shit and plucked to not be a hindrance or a possible coup element.

Avanti MPA was a joint venture with Saab started in 2017. It failed to garner any customers; Italians never looked at it seriously. Saab started its own Swordfish mission system design based on G6000. Italians are now looking at bigger platforms for their own needs. Avanti is small, can't carry...

Yup. Actual reason for low number of builds is that noone is lining up to buy them. Avanti is fast, but it's also expensive to buy and maintain and also very loud. In production for more than 30 years with less than 300 built so far. Increasing production numbers must mean they are either...

Piaggio currently builds 4-5 aircraft a year; they are aiming for 25-30 in near future at the current facilities.

Baykar is very clearly the integrator there; but the capability to churn out that many is no small feat. Great business.

American shipyard or a European design office? Hmm

One thing about air defence is that as we've recently seen, is that you'll never have too many. Old trusty Bofors still has a place in this day and age, but sadly it's still very much one of the most numerous systems we have available for the VSHORAD role. We need 30x the amount of 35mm systems...

Let's dust this off. Croatia is planning for 2+1 corvettes/light frigates in a program that is planned to be between 600m-1.6billion euros. More than 10 shipyards are interested, along with Turkish participants.

There are no such systems in place. That's not how any of this works. Again, this is why US is not selling F-35s to us or UAE and why Israel is trying their damnest to make sure US doesn't sell us F-35s.