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Avanti MPA was a joint venture with Saab started in 2017. It failed to garner any customers; Italians never looked at it seriously. Saab started its own Swordfish mission system design based on G6000. Italians are now looking at bigger platforms for their own needs. Avanti is small, can't carry...

Yup. Actual reason for low number of builds is that noone is lining up to buy them. Avanti is fast, but it's also expensive to buy and maintain and also very loud. In production for more than 30 years with less than 300 built so far. Increasing production numbers must mean they are either...

Piaggio currently builds 4-5 aircraft a year; they are aiming for 25-30 in near future at the current facilities.

Baykar is very clearly the integrator there; but the capability to churn out that many is no small feat. Great business.

American shipyard or a European design office? Hmm

One thing about air defence is that as we've recently seen, is that you'll never have too many. Old trusty Bofors still has a place in this day and age, but sadly it's still very much one of the most numerous systems we have available for the VSHORAD role. We need 30x the amount of 35mm systems...

Let's dust this off. Croatia is planning for 2+1 corvettes/light frigates in a program that is planned to be between 600m-1.6billion euros. More than 10 shipyards are interested, along with Turkish participants.

There are no such systems in place. That's not how any of this works. Again, this is why US is not selling F-35s to us or UAE and why Israel is trying their damnest to make sure US doesn't sell us F-35s.

With Emiratis as a user, there's a non zero chance that Kaan will be used against us. It happened in the past with other stuff we sold. There are simply untrustworthy and do not deserve Kaan with all its capabilities...

There's no equivalent European engine to F110, and definitely not TF35000. It was us that rejected RR's deal, not the other way around.

No, thanks!

They've been considering that for more than a year now. Still waiting for an order. https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/savunma-sanayisi/kolombiya-hava-kuvvetleri-heyeti-bayraktar-tb3u-incelemek-uzere-turkiyeye-geliyor/3484339

Malaysia ordered a second MPMS.

There's talk of a continued order for VSHORAD systems. I think we can say that new Korkut like systems will be on the Arma 8x8, or an equivalent 8x8. Otokar and Aselsan have a great working relationship but number of Otokar vehicles to enter KKK inventory in the last 5 years I believe is less...

Welp, there it is. Seems a pretty large air cav assault is underway with Chinooks, Apaches and Ospreys. They are hitting military installations hard, time on target is impressive as usual.