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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...

:) Let's just say hayırlısı.

Norway banned the sale of NSM's to Malaysia to be used on Maharaja Lela class frigates(enlarged Gowind). First ship was to be commissioned this year after many delays. They will probably replace them with Exocets; but there's a small idea to use Atmaca instead as well and get commonality with...

We can possibly say that Eren is now combat proven. Looks like the Emirati/Ethiopian Akıncı that was shot down was shot down by a Sudanese Akıncı using an Eren. Looks to match it. Would also make it Akıncı's first proven air kill.

I like the packaging on that trailer a lot.

By 30cms maybe, not 2 meters. We can assume that this is entirely valid for B10 variant. It might change in the future with B30.