TR Defence Exports & Updates

MonteCarlo · Sep 6, 2026

Baykar K2 kamikaze drone in Pakistan Air Force inventory

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2096733917130744315

Afif · Sep 6, 2026

Sanchez said:
Lots of AI usage, we shouldn't take it as gospel.

This Hisar is a locally developed jammer afaik. Not Aselsan Hisar Active AD.

Fatman17 · Sep 6, 2026

Deliorman said:
Everything “Made in the USA” is just way too expensive. America has enough funds, resources and manpower to mass produce ships and other weaponry cheaply but they are way too fat and corrupt to do it. Everyone from their politicians, to the defense contractors, to the generals in the Pentagon etc is corrupt.

A country that has a 1$ trillion defense budget shouldn’t run out of AD munitions after a month of Iranian attacks. Imagine them fighting China with the industrial capacity it has…

They were expecting a 48 hour war with lran.

Pokemonte13 · Sep 7, 2026

Anybody know whats up with 229% increase in defence spending for 2027-29? How would that look like in dollar terms?

Sanchez · Sep 7, 2026

Pokemonte13 said:
Anybody know whats up with 229% increase in defence spending for 2027-29? How would that look like in dollar terms?

229% increase in TRY value from this year to end of 2029. TRY=USD parity they took for end of 2029 I think is about 80TRY, so not much increase as I see it in USD terms.

Pokemonte13 · Sep 7, 2026

Sanchez said:
229% increase in TRY value from this year to end of 2029. TRY=USD parity they took for end of 2029 I think is about 80TRY, so not much increase as I see it in USD terms.

Didn't they wanted to reach 3,5% defence spending by 2030
With nominal Gdp of roughly 2 Trillion defence spending would be like 60-70 billion

Sanchez · Sep 7, 2026

Sanchez said:
I'm unsure if the systems shown on video are from Pakistan. They look like promo videos Aselsan shared earlier. But definitely already in service or they will be in near future.

That could be Korkut at the back.

boredaf · Sep 7, 2026

Sanchez said:
That could be Korkut at the back.

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That is some eye mate

Afif · Sep 7, 2026

Sanchez said:
That could be Korkut at the back.

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Yes bro, someone with authority actually confirm Korkut being in PAF service. I saw it yesterday.

Oublious · Sep 12, 2026

Japan Hesitant Over the US Navy's New Frigate Programme | TURDEF

Japan is reconsidering its position over industrial challenges and setbacks for the FFM frigates that might be associated with the US Navy's frigate programme.

turdef.com

Japan is reconsidering its position over industrial challenges and setbacks for the FFM frigates that might be associated with the US Navy's frigate programme.

Naval News reported that Japan, despite its inclusion in the US Navy's new frigate acquisition programme involving an allied nation, is hesitant due to industrial revitalisation challenges and possible disruptions for the Mogami-class (FFM) frigate deliveries to existing customers.

It is argued by the Japan-based author Yoshihiro Inaba that winning the competition with the Mogami-class does not end the pressure.

Inaba underlined that the hurdles would start with revitalising US shipbuilding, which has fallen into a state of reduced activity and has not renewed its equipment or methods. This means a massive financial burden as well as the matter of training a large number of personnel.

Furthermore, Japan is already building a large number of Mogami-class frigates in baseline and upgraded variants for its own navy and the Royal Australian Navy. Building a large number of frigates, even jointly in the US, might endanger the delivery schedules for the booked customers.

These concerns might lead to the Turkish I-class frigate and ROK's Chungnam-class frigate as the two contenders. Both countries have joint construction experience.

Turkiye's past experiences in this regard include:

Babur-class corvettes (PN MİLGEM) - Pakistan
Turkmen-class corvette (Dearsan C92) - Turkmenistan

ROK's include:

HVS - Vietnam
Agila Southern Yard - Philippines

Author: Kaan Azman

Editor:Özgür Ekşi

Saithan · Sep 13, 2026

Oublious said:
Japan Hesitant Over the US Navy's New Frigate Programme | TURDEF

Japan is reconsidering its position over industrial challenges and setbacks for the FFM frigates that might be associated with the US Navy's frigate programme.

turdef.com

Japan is reconsidering its position over industrial challenges and setbacks for the FFM frigates that might be associated with the US Navy's frigate programme.

Naval News reported that Japan, despite its inclusion in the US Navy's new frigate acquisition programme involving an allied nation, is hesitant due to industrial revitalisation challenges and possible disruptions for the Mogami-class (FFM) frigate deliveries to existing customers.

It is argued by the Japan-based author Yoshihiro Inaba that winning the competition with the Mogami-class does not end the pressure.

Inaba underlined that the hurdles would start with revitalising US shipbuilding, which has fallen into a state of reduced activity and has not renewed its equipment or methods. This means a massive financial burden as well as the matter of training a large number of personnel.

Furthermore, Japan is already building a large number of Mogami-class frigates in baseline and upgraded variants for its own navy and the Royal Australian Navy. Building a large number of frigates, even jointly in the US, might endanger the delivery schedules for the booked customers.

These concerns might lead to the Turkish I-class frigate and ROK's Chungnam-class frigate as the two contenders. Both countries have joint construction experience.

Turkiye's past experiences in this regard include:

Babur-class corvettes (PN MİLGEM) - Pakistan

Turkmen-class corvette (Dearsan C92) - Turkmenistan

ROK's include:

HVS - Vietnam

Agila Southern Yard - Philippines

Author: Kaan Azman

Editor:Özgür Ekşi

Considering the content of the Naval News article on the same matter.

I'd says US is looking for ways to modernize their ancient ship building capabilities.

Build 1-2 ships in Türkiye, then invest insane amount of money in US to enable them to produce the ships themselves.

And it ain't over until the customer says it's done. Which means they can squeeze you for everything.

Add to this changes under way and such.

Maybe @Anmdt has some insight to dealing with US Shipyards or US he can share with us.

Anmdt · Sep 14, 2026

Saithan said:
in US to enable them to produce the ships themselves

This is the hard part actually, restarting a capability requires human resources which US lacks at the moment. Neither did they adopt automated or industrial capabilities like Japan or Korea did in transition to compensate for lack of human resources, which brought them at this stage, a niche industry capable of serving niche ship classes which is not adequate to produce and maintain ships en masse.

boredaf · Sep 14, 2026

Anmdt said:
This is the hard part actually, restarting a capability requires human resources which US lacks at the moment. Neither did they adopt automated or industrial capabilities like Japan or Korea did in transition to compensate for lack of human resources, which brought them at this stage, a niche industry capable of serving niche ship classes which is not adequate to produce and maintain ships en masse.

So, same story as their Stinger production lines then? They had to shovel money in front of retirees to come back to be able to restart production lines for the Stinger missiles, iirc.

Sanchez · Sep 14, 2026

boredaf said:
So, same story as their Stinger production lines then? They had to shovel money in front of retirees to come back to be able to restart production lines for the Stinger missiles, iirc.

Not the same actually, because those retirees are still building the FIM-92J. Which is an FIM-92E that stopped US production in early 2000s.

Ship production is different, much much larger scale, so many more people. Doesn't make any financial sense in the first place, that's why they stopped production and became this way in the first place. Stinger is different. They had enough Stingers in stocks to last a life time if not for Ukraine.

Pokemonte13 · Sep 14, 2026

If they go forward with this model of only buying 3 ships from abroad building the rest in the US, they will further fall back compared to the chinese. It will take more than a decade to rebuild a ship industry that is acceptable and during that timeframe buying ships from abroad would be much easier and faster

Sanchez · Sep 14, 2026

Pokemonte13 said:
If they go forward with this model of only buying 3 ships from abroad building the rest in the US, they will further fall back compared to the chinese. It will take more than a decade to rebuild a ship industry that is acceptable and during that timeframe buying ships from abroad would be much easier and faster

By the way, it's not even clear if this can get funded. This is president's and his secnav's baby. So far it hasn't received any funding from the congress. At this time it's nothing more than a show.

Pokemonte13 · Sep 14, 2026

Sanchez said:
By the way, it's not even clear if this can get funded. This is president's and his secnav's baby. So far it hasn't received any funding from the congress. At this time it's nothing more than a show.

The century of humiliation must continue

Saithan · Sep 14, 2026

We have no idea what kind of behind closed doors blackmail could be used to force the hand of Türkiye to make such investment.

That is what I am fearing.

Sugarcoat it with something, but hide the truth from the public.

Passenger · Sep 14, 2026

Our South Korean neighbors' crown jewel, Hanwha shipyard, has been on the Americans' radar for a long time — their Navy procurement guys literally dream about packing up those shipyards and moving them to the US wholesale. But unfortunately, every time they hire a batch of Korean workers to bring over to the States, ICE rolls up and tries to intercept them and deport the whole lot.

TR_123456 · Sep 14, 2026

Passenger said:
Our South Korean neighbors' crown jewel, Hanwha shipyard, has been on the Americans' radar for a long time — their Navy procurement guys literally dream about packing up those shipyards and moving them to the US wholesale. But unfortunately, every time they hire a batch of Korean workers to bring over to the States, ICE rolls up and tries to intercept them and deport the whole lot.

Shows only how dumb the current American administration is.

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