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When such Western publications talk about “heavy foreign contribution,” they refer to consultation with BAE Systems or the F110 engine, the former of which was small and the latter being replaced. There is a dependency on the control stick, too but it probably doesn’t give the same assurance...

This conversation always goes round in circles. The authorities don’t specify if the Kaans will be using TF35k in serial production or in testing in 2028. TF35k seems like it will be one of those secretive projects like Gezgin or Akbaba. It might exist only on paper or it might already be a...

It is said that Greece will have 12.8B EUR in total for new equipment purchases (in addition to what’s already been contracted) from 2024 to 2035. They want to divide it roughly equally between the three forces. It seems with the globally rising weapon prices the arms race they wanted to start...

10 to 15 minutes is expected for the maiden flight. And I hope we can put behind the irrational "election" narrative after being disproven a gazillion times.

Woah, hold up now... Does it already have MURAD? I thought it was only on Akinci at the moment.

What a historic day... We are lucky to witness it.

I would agree but let's not name any platform Ataturk unless we know we can protect it in time of war. There seems to be a lot of missing pieces of the puzzle that would provide enough protection to the AC so that it doesn't go down first at the start of war. Also, what use is putting Hurjet on...

The guy wrote a novel-length piece about how Turkey became an established producer of military equipment after being faced with sanctions and political blackmail since the 70s and then he ended up proposing to use Eurofighters for political blackmail. Classic European.

His purpose for going to Germany was not Eurofighter jets and nothing he said there was wrong. If the Germans can't bear hearing the truth maybe they should change their ways. And as a country who put an embargo on Turkey with the express of aim of supporting the PKK terrorist organization...

So, let me ask something to the experts here about Kizilelma's performance against 4th gen aircraft. Not that it's an alternative to modernization of the F-16s or Kaan of course but many seem to be quite pessimistic about the A-A capabilities of KE whereas it seems like a very well-thought...

As long as funding for Kaan won't be affected, getting 20-40 F35 would be ideal both to bridge the time gap until Kaan becomes operational and also to learn more extensively the 5th gen characteristics by using F35 and participating in NATO exercises. S400s were not an ideal decision to begin...

Actually, Germany selling Eurofighters just got a lot more likely now that Americans are selling. There was no logical reason for denying the sale anyway. But it might be a bit overkill for us as the Viper/Ozgur numbers already present quite a sizeable investment in the 4th gen planes.

Kaan's first delay just got delayed for a few weeks which is quite normal. There doesn't seem to be any sign of the government using this for election purposes, at least not yet. Whenever elections approach some people get paranoid about what the government might be using for propaganda purposes.

It is a testament to the power of private sector that sending an astronaut to ISS got as ridiculously cheap as 55 million USD. We should turn this into a regular thing and have a couple of missions every year.

I disagree with this notion. Taking the command of robotic warfare away from the relevant units into a central command would rather reduce integration than increase it. At the end of the day, unmanned systems are tools that every unit has to learn how to use best in their own context. The...