Recent content by Sanchez

Hürjet is not a small plane. Kaan is huge. And these are manned aircraft, which brings huge safety requirements. Possible TCG-CV(Trakya?) will be a one off design and to develop a catapult for it would take years of ground tests and then tears of onboard tests. We would need to build the thing...

While the future “upgradeability” is nice to have, it comes with additional costs. QE was also to be modular like that, but projected costs from before the ships were built were tiny and they decided to not follow up on a CATOBAR retrofit after having a second look. US did hundreds to maybe...

Kınalıada is not being deployed to Somalia as part of the martime deal with Somalia. She’s on her voyage to Japan with port visits to nearby countries. Mogadishu is one such stop. Next stop is Maldives.

Istif Class being so lacking in AA department is sad. In a world where we envision them with 16 AShMs, enemies soon will have the same number of AShMs as well. We plan on expanding our foot print all over the region, going as far as western Indian Ocean. Adding to AShMs, there will be drone and...

Can MKE do anything by itself? It’s not even that good at actual production of already designed stuff.

Per a claim, Barbaros and Kemalreis will undergo the Barbaros MLU program together at the same time, and Salihreis will follow later https://x.com/analizdeniz/status/1781573287555792939 2 modern frigates will be in the shipyard for at least a year and there will be a reduction in the number...

Can’t remember the exact number right now but at least 10-20(?) T625s will use foreign engines. This was announced last year.

Gendarme’s first batch of helicopters won’t use TS1400. Delays still apparent and now the revised delivery timeline is “this year”. good that KKK, HvKK and police have joined the fray as well.

Common fallacy in our circles. Weapons systems don’t win wars. Doctrines, training, CONOPS and logistics do. There’s also nothing preventing from what happened over Israel last week occurring again over Aegean where multiple countries shoot down our ballistic missiles and drones in air. US did...

Well that’s not going anywhere. The European Council has tied any progress with Turkey to the resolution of Cyprus talks • Considering past failed attempts like the Annan plan and Crans Montana. Ankara remains skeptical about Greek (Cypriot) willingness to make concessions to find middle...

A snake cannot control its nature. It will bite your hand no matter how hard you try. Using these groups to further state agenda was wrong 15 years ago and it is wrong now and it will only keep detoriating.

It’s part of Spain’s Dedalo task group. An Albaro de Bazan class frigate from the task force is also in Izmir. Group will start in Turkey and Greece, patrol in east med, Italy, west Med and then Atlantic. https://x.com/cetinelmete/status/1780606851119231165?s=46&t=7tiosvwkaTbbgoSMbRgrzA

Bide our time, be nice with EU, stall Greek efforts. Russia doesn’t have air superiority over Ukraine. Both sides have extensive AA and shit aircraft. A possible Turkish Greek war won’t be a counter insurgency war like Vietnam or Afghanistan but a peer to peer conflict. And more than likely...

THY got 6 A350s Aeroflot ordered but couldn’t receive due to sanctions in 2022. First 4 was almost ready to be delivered and already painted so they flew with an incomplete Aeroflot livery for few months. If unchanged they still have the Russian seating with more business seats, different than...

You fight with the weapons you have, not the weapons you will have in 5 years. And it doesn’t matter how you received your weapons, they are lethal whether you built them yourself or got them through a deal with the devil. they have their Meteor equipped Rafales today, while we will have 25...