Recent content by Sanchez

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?

Not navy tests. Those will start after 2031.

It's hard, takes time, lots of systems to test for the first time, very expensive, largest surface combatant we've ever devised.

D1 and D2 were sent last year. The recent one is D3, set to be sent with Transporter 16.

What we have been waiting for a long time is moving forward. Italy to procure TB3 to operate aboard Cavour. "Speaking before the Italian Senate’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee on 25 March, VAdm Berutti Bergotto confirmed that the service is moving forward with the Baykar-developed TB3...

What's your source then?

E-7 procurement is stalled, frames are not coming online anytime soon. It is true that some E-3s were recently mothballed, but those aircraft were mothballed for a reason, youngest of them is from 1983 and they've been lying around for few years, so you can't just replace the lost one tomorrow...

Brotherly countries in the east are more interested in doing business with EU than we are. - We need a new topic to discuss this soon tectonic shift re Turkey/US/NATO relations.

Then you will say Americans like grown ups. You've been warned multiple times before.

Sub harpoon is already in use with the navy for decades. Akata doesn't really bring much new to the table. Our subs are small, Type 209s carry about 15 munitions(8 in tubes), Type 214 should be about 16-18. Majority of these are torpedos. I believe 4 of the 8 tubes are rated for missiles. So to...

No, I'm pretty sure no Israeli ground unit will be entering Iran. Enough with the 2nd grade name calling.

Isn't the real issue for radar guided missiles like Atmaca being used against land targets the ground clutter? Probably will need few more tests in more realistic environments.