Recent content by Sanchez

5% by 2035 is simply not good enough. We're not getting a carrier we can deploy or 8 AD destroyers with 5% by 2035. Re NATO military spending, Turkey has a special place and is out of sight of Trump; because unlike other members it's mostly self capable and has a large army, even though it's...

Should be a Banshee.

That's another, larger point of contention. All those plans to enlarge and modernize all forces with more expensive, larger and more modern platforms, but defence spending still not hitting even 3%. We can only hope that the people who ask for, design and build these things also have an idea of...

NEW: Announced today during meeting of Turkiye and Iran's Foreign Ministers in Tehran: - Iranian consulate to open in Van - new border gates - at least one more - to open - Turkish and Iranian rail networks to be integrated

When did this government ever not turn the other cheek?

Two things. Greece and GKRY proven multiple times in the past that they are autonomous enough from EU when it comes to their most important needs. For these two, keeping Turkey out is their only reason for existence; so they will push for it; and even if they fail they will make sure they...

They still have their veto. Unless they revert their veto, Turkey is not joining the SAFE scheme.

Future is here and Baykar leads the way. Great way to start a sunday. Yes!

Doubt it. Retrofit has been going on for the last 2 years, with first 8 aircraft already being retrofitted over the time. We haven't seen any DIRCM units on any of the aircraft. And whose DIRCM would we use anyway? Yıldırım is not ready. Made a check on twitter, saw this chain. What SOC 3...

58 customer satellites in one photo. Wonder which one is supposed to be Fergani's tug.

They could just not spend millions on donations to US politicians to boot Turkey out of JSF; but they did that. There's nothing suspicious about anything. Israel worked for more than 5 years actively to make sure Turkey didn't get F-35s and it is still working actively to keep the laws that...

Our own Constellation program 🤭

We could actually. I do not subscribe to this viewpoint. We have facts from recent history. We have a country that refused to sell us aircraft with lobbying from regional rivals like Israel, UAE and Greece. F-35 is this silver bullet that is either a huge gamechanger or it's basically a poison...

I think they want to conquer Çanakkale for the new papal state.

Literally everyone that can get them on earth wants F-35s. It's simply the best fighter aircraft ever built, its capabilities are unparalleled. That's not how that works. Fighter aircraft unlike pagers are not COTS items you buy from Hungary based Mossad shell companies. That's on Iran to be...