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You can't just move vertical stabilizers, you would have to move the engines, which would limit the size of iwb and middle fuselage. You can do the su57 / YF 23 layout but again that requires heavy redesign of tail and nozzles, meaning also change of engine and fuselage design. Its not simply...

Honestly worst case plan would be just make a deal with spain so they manufacture and sell jointly and we get a cut, win win, but slightly less profit vs if we did it. Im sure we can buy enough engines for our use.

F16 block 50 /70 have ram coating, but not the same kind of coating as F22 and F35

There has to be electrical continuity for the advanced ram coatings, the f16 shape is probably not suitable for that. Plus it would probably be thicker than regular ram paint, and alter flight characteristics.

Let me offer you some insight. Acquiring such potential in terms of human capital, technological and institutional capacity takes a long time and a lot of investment, planning, and you have to cut from other things, a lot has to be sacrificed. The military and technological potential of Turkey...

We could have afforded, we chose to waste money other things, we can blow 50 billion when we want.

This was confirmed to be incorrect

Always prepare yourself for the worst, usually they find a way to make it worse than you can imagine but it helps ease the pain.

We all knew we would self sabotage by dragging the process for years and end up with nothing as usual, instead of just buying the things we urgently need

Honestly people acting like Trump will fix america like some mastermind with some deep state support or whatever. He will act like most idiots and ruin US, there are some valid points some people raise about current establishment in US, but this guy is not an answer to any of it and giving such...

I thought this was april fools joke

I had heard they have a top team of metallurgists working on developing single crystal solutions for a while

Yes but it seems our rate is more like one per year with 4 year lead time for every new order or something

Incidents like this dont help

It is also not nice to make enemies of Algeria. They have a competent army, they can shoot down drones easily. They are going to receive Su57 this year. It is a country we should build better relations with.