PT-3 and PT-4 deployed to Anadolu again For Denizkurdu-II-25. We can see PT-3 armed with 2 inert MAM-Ls. There will be live firing against land targets from UAVs on the 14th, this is presumably a test for that. Using live MAMs on drones aboard Anadolu will be a first, looking forward to that.
Rafale is not superior to J-10C.
Turkey opting for Chinese or Chinese tech aircraft is unlikely as we have our own commitments and issues that require a NATO hand at play. And CAATSA still exists.
It's not a new squadron per se. It was formed last year from aircraft and crews being sent over to Dalaman, some of them were 401 squadron aircraft, but probably not all.
https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/gok-vatanin-demir-kartallari-yeni-yila-nobette-giriyor/3439113
Brings the new total to 10...
Also one has to wonder Indian strikes this evening was about stopping the retaliation or trying to incur as much as damage as possible before it starts.
Should be interesting.
Doubt that, and still, political cost for that will still be very low. Turkish support for Pakistan endured 70 years and like 10 different governments, it won't go anywhere in the future. And Indian Turkish relations will stay minimal for years to come. So no political cost.
Information warfare, drawing lines on the sand of us vs. enemy, noone likes Erdoğan, political cost of vilifying Turkey for an Indian is zero, compared to China, etc etc.
I don't think this was ever disputed. If it was, it was a mistake by that person. It's an air force supplied and trained by US for decades and have a clear enemy to train against for the last 60 years. Add very competent aircraft like JF-17, which is a tailor built cheaper F-16 for Pakistan and...
@Nilgiri I do want to learn your thinking on this. Indian rhetoric originally was "we only struck terrorist targets and not military ones and ask Pakistanis to not retaliate." That seems to have gone out of window after the apparent Pakistani air response to missile dumpers and aircraft loss and...
A lesson is in order on what "flag flying in the wind direction" means.
Just trying to employ some common sense. If everyone did that, we'd be golden. Can't have nice shit though.
Similar populations, they had to give a response soon. If Pakistanis don't retaliate, they'll bury the losses...
