Recent content by Sanchez

I mean compared to a TB2... This bad boy can carry 60 MAM-Ls!

This was a fun good match; enjoyed it thoroughly. Hadn't watched a game of theirs in years.

We could already do all of that, Azerbaijan is a user. Knowing things about stuff doesn't make them less threatening. And it's vice versa, they can learn many things via that radar as well; it's very potent. Meltem flights go over North Cyprus every week, what will we do when these become...

Finally able to see the poster next to it, it's a sales pitch for Nurol UK and its offered vehicles, Ejder(Dragon), NMS(Nomad) and NMS-L(Lurcher). Still very interesting:

NEW: Interesting that Turkiye's FM Hakan Fidan now saying relations with the east of Libya (Haftar) are the same as with the west (Dbeibeh) - Also says a visit by ex-adversary Khalifa Haftar is not on the agenda right now, but would be normal if it happened So seems a Haftar visit is not out...

It's interesting. It is clearly on the British armed forces pavilion "Land Static Display" section alongside Ajax, Boxer and Challenger but noone else is reporting it. NMS is showcased both in this pavilion and also by Nurol alongside Ejder in their own section. So it's clear that NMS is in...

We don't have the political capital or the money to undertake such a program. Who's going to fund it, with what money? We could at this point create a highway between Ankara and Istanbul with what we "don't have".

Not just Russia, Iran too. Iraq's electricity waiver ended this year, ours probably also won't be renewed. Won't be surprising if Akkuyu is nationalized in this decade at great loss to us.

Change is afoot. EUROPEAN GAS: Turkey's Botas is stacking up new shortish-term LNG supply deals at Gastech in Milan. Three yesterday with BP, Eni, and Shell, and more today with Hartree, Cheniere, and SEFE. With Russian gas contracts due to expire at year-end, Turkey increasingly focusing on LNG.

Everything is possible, always. It's not a bigger claim than using Ukrainian engines for serial production birds. Relations have been thawing since the last year. If the idea is to get closer to Europe, getting closer to France is also necessary. Though locally produced T700 would still be the...

Otokar is also offering Tulpar with Korhan 35mm to Brazil to replace Brazil's old Gepards.

I think all this is about 5 years out of date thinking. Per what's available, J-20 doesn't have anything missing over the F-22; save for the F119.

Per what's available, production will not continue for T70. Apart from what was already on the line with parts ordered from abroad, there won't be more deliveries. I don't think anyone's ordering 50 20+ million helicopters just to find them suitors in the future. Production line will be open...

4th Air force CSAR delivery.

The first of the next two prototypes of Turkey’s Kaan indigenous combat aircraft has moved into the system integration phase ahead of plans to fly in spring 2026... Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) officials said the two prototypes are in an advanced state of structural assembly and work is...