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One would think another kind of UAV would cause immense logistics problems, but this wouldn't be so. You have fuel and ammunition. But most mechanical parts are WW2 tech. The concept is very cost and logistics friendly. Instead of expending tens of millions of dollars for air defence against...

Cost effectiveness side, I don't know. But keeping a few of these things in the air would deny enemy UCAVs the airspace and costs pennies to operate. Cheap ammunition, too. I think it would be a good investment. Akıncı gun pod thing wouldn't cut it, Akıncı is not agile enough and I'm not sure...

Yeah, but Akıncı is more valuable and its means of A2A combat is expensive. I'm talking about a reusable system. 20mm cannons, cheap as hell. Essentially an automated MALE drone hunter. One is lost? No biggie. Was is anti-air? counterbattery fire. Was it other aircraft? KE. I can't calculate...

Still, picture something like this: A Turkish officer waving his hand saying "finish them off" while walking out of the command room while hundreds of Kargu's taking off... That's some Darth Vader shit lol

Mostly for cost. No guided munitions, 80 years old tech, ease of mass production etc. Edit: I just thought of something. This concept could very well be the "wing loong hunter" for our allies. Drone proliferation is already here. Everyone and their moms are going to acquire MALE UCAV's or at...

Good point. I can extend this one a bit. For A2A miisions, my thinking goes like this: 1- First things first; we need eyes. AWACS, mini-AWACS (Akıncı variant, maybe), relay drones, 2- Next thing is to pin the enemy and conduct aerial combat in relatively close distances. This is Kızılelma's...

That would be an indiscriminate weapon of area denial. How will the thing know what to hit? I imagine putting a human in the loop would be technically impossible. Deep underwater is not like the sky, you just can't communicate with the thing.

I wonder how deep one needs to dig in order to avoid US bunker busting. I imagine it would be deeper than a hundred meters by now.

BROOOO Dersim's sexiest man gılışdar got REKT! It is said that the judge who did the verdict was Bahçevelli's guy. If that's true, both Tayyip and Dersim's sexiest man just got fired & retired. They just don't know it yet.

I can see an AI specialist sargeant from Yozgat doing 150 km intikal already...

I get your point, but if the plane can do 20Gs and avoid missiles, why not send some to 'pin down' enemy aircraft while Anka 3 sends Gökdoğans from safe distance. Keep in mind I'm talking about +100 planes in the air from each side. Mass aerial combat.

Even if we discount TFX, it seems TAF will be the premiere power in the region. Just think about it: Kızılelma doing dogfighting, while Akıncı and TAI MIUS stay back loaded with BVRAAMs. Now add layered air defense. And all the naval programs. And the missile programs. And sattelites. If...

Football players in Turkey are overwhelmingly 'keko'. They have no shame.

Guys, don't get your hopes up with Mr. Özdağ. My close friends tried to work with him. Two different people in two different occasions. He treated them like trash. The guy has serious problems leading people. And there is the issue of his private life, which is private, but this is Turkish...

Turkish casualities will lead to TAF backing down? Are these people daft? Do they know nothing about how Turkish soicety works?

Disagree. They would actually like a strong but obedient Muslim country. Problem starts when the country starts to act in its own interests. Before the revolution, Iran was basically a regional superpower. Yet it was essentially a sattelite state. Same thing with the Saudis right now. Except...

I think the air force would go with TFX + Kızılelma + various drones, but keep a sizeable number of Hurjets around for diversification. The real opportunity here is the export potential. We can build the airforces of african nations from scratch. NATO quality with Russian prices. Make a lot of...

Cheap AND quick. Loitering munitions with WW2 levels of production speed is what this country needs. That's why whent they say they amped up the production to 500 per year I was elated.

Iran collapsing has its positives and negatives. Positives: 1- Threat of a nuclear Iran is gone. Which is a big one for me. 2- Assad is out of manpower. We can finally put an end to this Syrian circus. 3- Russia is all out of friends in the region. 4- Shia crescent project is dead in the...

If the car salesman is an obnoxious bully brimming with hubris who refuses to sell the newer car...