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For the first time ever, two siblings together at Rota, Spain.

There's no decision yet. We've been waiting for them to make up their mind for like 4 years now.

Beautiful shots of all four.

A ZMA15T1 in Cyprus during exercises.

No information. Per what's available, negotiations for the deal also still continue.

Chief of Armed Forces Bayraktaroğlu held phone talks with CENTCOM commander and French armed forces chief back to back.

Fatih says it's not yet clear which ships Indonesia will buy and there's nothing but the original MoU and the recent financing deal with Barzan. But adds Indonesian government is pushing for the shortest available delivery timeline. There are lots of Istifs coming online in the next 4 years...

All the subsystems(16 strike length cells, MKE 76mm gun, Gökdeniz CIWS, radars, EW etc) are already contracted; not clear if includes "perishables" like missiles and torpedoes, munitions etc or not; which is the same for any deal; totally dependent.

Which was and still is a surprise to me; as no one is selling a frigate for 500m apiece with this kind of loadout; especially one that is already built.

Not really, Aselsan is a big subcontractor; many stuff are license built and sold. These NSPA tenders are open to every NATO country company; anyone can enter.

Or not. "According to information obtained by Naval News at the exhibition, the sixth and eighth frigates of the program—corresponding to the second and fourth I-class frigates—will be exported to Indonesia. Within the MILGEM program, the first four vessels are ADA-class corvettes, while the...

It's called the Jones Act. No possible way to build an American ship here; and as they did not visit any private shipyards that might want to do it, doubtful. But still, naval shipyard can share knowhow.

USN NAVSEA delegation visited Istanbul Shipyard Command. I don't think this ever happened before, maybe during transfer of OHPs or earlier. Interesting to say the least; but navy did show the world that it can handle so many things all at once, sharing workload between state and private...

There will be many more delays in aircraft and engine production and development. Let's just say that finalization of EFs for the air force was a huge boon.

More F/A-50s apparently.