Recent content by Sanchez

French have shown in the past that they don't have the capability in Africa during Barkhane and Serval other than the most simples CSAR ops and Brits simply don't have the capability.

Closest I think would be the Entebbe Raid and they had a fully functioning airport and the earlier failed Eagle Claw, also in Iran. Funny thing; CV-22 was entirely sold and later developed as a tailor built platform to combine the best sides of a cargo aircraft and a helicopter and it would be...

If half of what's been written since last night is true then this is the greatest SOF raid of this century; god damn. Iranians are clueless. They brought in MH-6 Little Birds stuffed inside C-130s to use as fire support.

All our systems already come with EO. Systems like 358 are cheap and somewhat mobile but there lies the issue. They are only good for drones and potshots against enemies of which you know their locations so you can ambush them. It's not a winning strategy; it's a hailmary. If you are down to...

It's nothing new, it's what they worked on for years in Iraq, Yemen, by giving them to PKK in Syria and now in Iran. There's a reason why they are only successful on bringing down Reapers; they use EO based SAMs like the 358.

Block 30s will also receive Özgür-2.

I fully buy helicopters being hit with gunfire; unsure about A-10; they mention it was crashed into sea. Americans are refueling their CSAR birds over Iranian airspace with KC-130s. I don't see how can we view this as an "uptick" on Iranian GBAD activity. If anything, it's the other way around.

Again, Iraq was able to down up to 70 aircraft during the 91 war. Syrians and Egyptians downed hundreds of Israeli aircraft in the last centuries wars. It's just Iran that is abysmal.

Lead ship of the Tepe class ASW destroyers is to be named Kocatepe. I believe she will be the fifth ship to bear the name.

It isn't. I think he's just playing on the audience and the "hypersonic" buzzword. Majority of laymen don't know what an HGV or terminal course correction is, they only think that the weapon is so fast that it cannot be intercepted. All MRBMs (+1000km range) reach hypersonic speeds by their...

Would love to see "karma roket" actually on the field as well. Lots of ingredients, no soup. Our MLRS inventory needs an urgent upgrade.

Two points. I don't expect those timelines, they will push through 2030s. Further, Özgür-1-2 are huge mod packages; each aircraft will spend at least 2 months at TAI. Air force is already strapped for jets and to meet the very heavy timelines of Özgür they set out also means pulling frontline...

Kotil failed to deliver any projects in time, his tenure was fraught with multiple back to back delays and failed promises. TF-2000 "design" is underway for the last 15 years already. This is not a question of time or design. Tepe Class is just as complex as Kaan, even more so actually.

Or you can have not working ships you paid a billion each. Surely timeframe will shorten once the first ship takes shape and others will take less time to incur into service. But the idea that we are just building ships at a breakneck speed and this is just a slow down of what's usually...

Not by the navy shipyard, no. And you don't really expect the navy to order 3 ships to the consortium when the first one is only halfway into construction?