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HDP (and effectively PKK) have around 10 million sympathizers in Turkey. If you're a patriot you should want to solve that, and what is in the minds and hearts of people cannot be solved militarily. You can solve the PKK part itself militarily, but not the sympathizer part.

The Islamists always understand politics better than idealist nationalists and leftists. Islamists will form coalitions with anyone and everyone and they don't care and their constituents also don't care. They wouldn't care if they allied with the Militant Atheist Party, as long as it helped...

Please give up this TF nonsense; do the French, the British or Germans call their fighters FF, BF or GF? Calling it TF is derivative and lame as hell and stems from a lack of self-esteem. You call it S1 (Savaşçı No.1) for your first fighter, then you can add any moniker you want at the tailend...

The 2028 timeline is impossible, plain and simple. Mr. Akşit is a bidder of the tender for the MMU indigenous engine and it's natural in the competition that they claim fantastical things; I don't find fault with that. I think everyone would have a much better time of it if they brought their...

This reinforced my belief in a pet theory that I have that everything looks better in video compared to pictures. I think I can happily die after I see this thing fly with an indigenous engine.

This. Iran is an empty drum; a lot of noise, no substance. But you can never underestimate their stupidity, so they might go ahead and actually intervene, which would be a disaster for them.

Anka-4 must be in the works as MMU's wingman, since KE is Baykar's own project and MMU's wingman cannot be made by another company with limited access to and knowledge of MMU's integrated electronic systems. Also you cannot have MMU fly with a wingman with a considerably higher RCS profile.

If there was no other developments (TF-X, Anka-3, etc.) this alone still would be a huge accomplishment for a country with (seemingly) as little aeronautics pedigree as ours.

I think it's an Ivchenko engine.

The 29 countries that have sanctions against Russia, make up more than 60% of the world economy. If you think having trade restrictions, banking boycotts, etc. with the 60% of world economy isn't going to have severe long-term consequences, you're delusional. If Putin hasn't calculated this...

The same cultural base of problems that leads to corruption and nepotism, also finds solace in the idea of death penalty and citizen vigilantism. None of these are solutions; the countries you hate have them all in plenty.

The point is many buildings collapsed in Chile's 8.8 and Japan's 9.2 earthquakes, thousands in fact. The seismic isolation with sock absorbers which are trending on social media are very expensive solutions set aside for bigger projects, so they're not used as extensively as people think they...

what kind of a fucking world is this. we can't do anything. i hope the death toll is not as bad as some people are insinuating. but the images of cities that look like war-torn areas is very scary.

This video has 2.8 million views. How? 6th gen to REPLACE Hürjet?

What I'd love to see is a concerted swift action regarding engine development. Government should create the incentive for Kale and TEI to join forces in a joint venture for the here proposed 20k and 35k engines, to speed up future testing operations among other things.

Temel Kotil has stated in multiple interviews that, unlike MMU, they don't have any qualms about using foreign parts in Hürjet and they have opted to procure parts from wherever they could just to finish the project, and they prioritize practicality as opposed to MMU which is a strategic asset.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/07/surveillance-balloons-the-u-s-militarys-plan-to-spy-on-russia-and-china/ https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860 https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/06/us-military-balloons/ They're...

Well one can posit a natural interval of favorability between two nations, which will be in flux between its maxima and minima. The comparison between eras before the positive feedback loop of nationalistic hatred overtakes nations is a sombre reminder of alternative universes. Even such...

a) I didn't start that comparison, I just replied to a comment saying that they'd rather live under North Korean conditions than accept partitioning of the country (which I would like to think would be my choice as well). The reification from being under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons...