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Buddy tanker missions are a thing and it is what the US Navy is preparing the new MQ-25 for. Beforehand, almost 1/3 of a carrier’s F-18s were set aside for these missions, stealing away from possible combat sorties. Problem with the idea of using existing or modified drone tankers to refuel...

It needs to be about 3 times the size to be able to carry the boom necessary to refuel Kaan. Americans spent 10 years to perfect KC-46’s remote controlled boom where the boom operator still sits inside the aircraft. Should be fun for the folks at TAI to master that challenge.

Left it in season 2 i think. Need to rewatch all in one go sometime.

Sad, Hyundai’s K808 beat both Arma and Pars and was chosen as the winner. 30 vehicles in the first batch for 60 million.

Kaan P1 will fly in 2025. “Following the maiden flight, progress on the P1 prototype is once again advancing with a sense of unity and sol-idarity, fueling our growing excitement. All teams are currently focused on the new prototype, scheduled to make its maiden flight in 2025 and to be...

Not from Libya. See this newspiece with the same photo from 2019. https://www.takvim.com.tr/guncel/2019/06/01/pence-harektinda-6nci-gun-sinira-bora-sevkiyati Efforts in OSINT is laudable but make sure to reverse image search as well.

Iran will not retaliate over the border but with the usual missile and rocket attacks on our bases in Iraq. Their proxies did send missiles near and even at our bases in the past.

Semi related: Paraglider fell after being caught in adverse air currents A paraglider was injured when he fell into a reverse air current in Güçlükonak district of Şırnak. A paragliding event was held on the second day of the "Güçlükonak Nature, Culture and Water Sports Festival", which was...

NEW: Closer relations between Turkiye and Indonesia agreed today: - 1st High Level Strategic Cooperation Council next year (Presidents, ministers to meet) - more defence, security cooperation, 2+2 format to start (Foreign and Defence Ministers to meet together). Agreed at today's meeting of...

Aselsan is a state company and if SSB says that’s the way forward that will be the way forward. Aselsan may also want to decouple from some works in a bid to cut costs and manhours. What we know is that Altınay have photos of Sadak 4T on its website now with the Aselsan labeling removed. It’s...

Anything we can read up on that? Altınay literally shows images of Sadak with Aselsan wording removed on its website. It looks more possible that Altınay will produce the Sadak series and not Aselsan.

No, they will as they usually do. 1 billion is pocket change for those people. No lobbying group is enough when the entirety of the establishment is against you from dems to reps.

Lol. Turkey backs Dutch PM Mark Rutte as the next Nato chief Ankara expects Rutte to be more sensitive on fight against terrorism and consider Turkish input in running Nato https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-backs-dutch-pm-mark-rutte-next-nato-chief

While this in itself is not directly bad, Exxon is the same company searching oil in Blue Homeland with Greek Cypriot license. NEW: Turkey in talks with ExxonMobil over $1.1bn LNG deal, says Turkish Energy Minister Bayraktar • The 2.5mn tonnes of LNG under discussion would be enough to cover...

Petrol is not cheap. Building and maintaining nuclear reactors however is much more expensive. from a quick glance, US Department of Energy spent 2.1 billion dollars in 2023 to service US Navy’s 96 nuclear reactors, 20 millions+ each and will spend another 7 billion between 2024 and 2027...