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Their heels are burning because world is burning and they need jets yesterday. I think they are reaching at any possible straw they can find now that they have political backing from the gov and the political acceptance from the consortium for the buy

And now the new claim is that new number will be 56. All 24 Qatari ones to be received "within a year". 20 new builds, 24 Qatari, 12 Omani. Omani ones to be modernized and delivered from 2028. Same piece also claims first new builds will be delivered from 2028; but Güler in december had said...

Not really, no.

It's hardly the layman's fault if the government appointed bureaucrats and the government appointed GMs of the state owned companies are unable to explain very, very simple export control contracts to the governments. Meh. Anka-3 crashed. What happened? Nothing. A private firm had a mishap the...

You don't seriously believe this came as a surprise to people up top. Of course you can't, they are literally American toolkits given to Turkey and TEI for a specific purpose, to license build F110s to be put on to F-16s or other contracted aircraft; it's export control in the most basic terms...

We need production partners and customers, not development partners. We most certainly need customers who can be production partners to bear the brunt of production costs.

That's not all related to how the programs are run. Why would Germany fund development and pour billions into it to create a jet for French needs without answering German needs. This is the gist of the issue. They are supposed to be equal partners; why should France take the lead on a project...

Its location?

I wouldn't be surprised if the radar test from earlier today was linked to this as well. That's a whole kill chain on the cheap; spectacular.

Boom of course. Kaan is huge, need that faster rate of transfer.

It was never explicitly mentioned; but it'll be left as is tradition. 5 year old slide: -- Interestingly we see 2 side by side central bays here; which is interesting. Makes me think if they rejected the tandem or if it will have two huge ones; or 3 bays(2 front, one back) not counting the...

Yup. It was a bullshit smear attempt that didn't land.

Might be a way to fit the shoe to the foot, but Eastern Sentry is not about shadow fleet movements. It's mostly for airspace defence, aircraft and drones.

That won't happen.

I don't really agree with this. That process is long and have many layers. Air force by its nature is different than the navy. Air force will take drones into service; they will be IOC later. I also don't really think IWB is a necessity to take them into service. They will still have many...