There hadn't been any hybrid war until Western world gifted those regions.
This war showed russia is paper tiger with it's helpless army. Russians can just bully weak minorities and weak nations.
This war showed Russia is a weak country.
120mm smoothbore cannon like AK-47, doesn't require too much cleaning.
Moreover frontengine gives more security and comfort for crew.
Kinda mini Merkava!
Damn we also want!!!
I am also wondering if it is possible to produce short shell 120mm ammunition which would have less recoil.
You could see how big indeed CIWS.
There should be much more compact VSHORAD systems based on SUNGUR.
Anyway Levent is mighty 😎
https://www.turdef.com/article/tcg-beykoz-corvette-spotted-with-mysterious-weapon-at-aft
For naval use, i would put 2 plates on static chassis instead of moving turret thus it would decrease costs since the CIWS is blind to 360 degree coverage. Please remember the position of the CİWS on the frigates .
Internal saboteur in the people mindalways says :no no no you can't!
We could put god damn domestic AESA radars in , on, under , back everywhere of EF T1. We could transform theese god damn EFs into T999999.
Yeah you're right. Upgrade needs hefty money. But Other countries have other more reasonable alternatives on the table despite spending on upgrade. Apart from Meteor as an aircraft EF is good. As i said challenges are big but not impossible. I believe in ASELSAN capabilities. Our engineers could...
Do we really have to get European original upgrade package? Would it be impossible for ASELSAN to upgrade T1s with Turkish AESA?
On the other hand, look at the numbers of underwing pods. ASELSAN could create forward looking AESA pods for EF. Sacrificing two pods under each wing for AESA ...