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Of course.

EASA certification in question is accepted in anywhere in the world except US and possibly China. We want to see it over the world. There's also the question about insurance for civilian users etc. It was nonetheless a very arduous and maybe a delayed project. But it is on track. -- By the way...

1000 is more than enough. Ammo count is what matters really. Mantis should have about 250 rounds ready to fire, don't think it's too different for Gökdeniz in total for two guns. For Mantis, a 1.5 sec burst is about 25 rounds. That gives you 10 engagements. Any larger and you need a bigger...

This is a good design if we remove it from Aegean. I think it's a bit big, probably won't be able to launch USVs; not much room for growth. It'd be wonderful in somewhere like Baltic. Still unsure if this was what was needed; but will be a huge upgrade over older FACs in service regardless.

This should be interesting. "Turkey is preparing to submit a bill to parliament to assert maritime jurisdiction in disputed areas of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas"

There have been no further flight tests.

Yes. But still, the previously showcased Mantis like 35mm turret wasn't a real thing; it was a mockup copy of the Mantis. I do hope Aselsan renovates all its 35mm gun line now. We need Göker.

Ehm. FINALLY. "A contract for the "Procurement of High-Velocity 35 mm Cannons" was signed between the Defense Industries Presidency and MKE."

Yes. M-B is a British company. Mk16 used on Rafale for example is built by a France based subsidiary and it is ITAR-Free like rest of Rafale. Depends on the variant. Kaan will use Mk18 and there are indeed plans to localize the seat in the future too. --

As far as we know, nope. I'm sure there are subcomponents of subsystems but none are for production aircraft. Turkey and SSB is under CAATSA sanctions by US for years and Kaan is an SSB project. Many components are outside our reach even if we wanted them. Even F110's supply is very hard to...

Oh, that's a Lycoming T53. I think someone is trying to replace Görgün as R&D chief and SSB as main coordinator for R&D. No other way to see this.

Some Spanish pundits are mentioning up to 100 frames with high locality. I don't see why not. Same pundits have been talking about low level talks for a year now, this was the first official confirmation we had from a Turkish official on the matter. It is very slowly materializing.

Baykar and Safran signed a MoU for cooperation on avionics and electronics.

F-516 İzmir possibly on her first cruise

"The number of Gökbey helicopters ordered from TUSAŞ has filled the production line’s capacity for the next five years. TUSAŞ aims to increase its production capacity for the Gökbey." This in itself doesn't say much, because the capacity for now is very low; at most 2 a month. Current...