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Are Russian government revenues from crude exports to India and China about to drop dramatically, increasing demand on Russia's dwindling financial reserves? https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-oil-trade-china-india-stalls-sanctions-drive-up-shipping-costs-2025-01-28/ PS You...

Is this - as claimed in the video - the biggest long range drone attack in military history?

If Turkiye does order Eurofighter, can F-110 KAAN orders be lowered so that more TF35000 KAAN can be produced at a later date? While I appreciate that steps may have been taken for production of 20 a year from 2028/2029, reducing that number should reduce pressure on TAI and suppliers.

IMO anything that does not oblige security guarantor countries to respond to aggression against Ukraine with their full conventional military might is inadequate. Failing such a guarantee being obtained, breaking Russia financially and economically and ensuring it never recovers sufficient...

1 what is the earliest KAAN could reach FOC with the Turkish air force? 2 what is the earliest Eurofighter could reach FOC with the Turkish air force? Do the answers lend weight to a choice to order Eurofighter? PS Prompt to stay on topic was posted while I was writing this post. Please...

https://gagadget.com/en/568740-turkey-and-pakistan-to-establish-joint-aircraft-factory-for-production-of-5th-generation-turkish-kaan-fighters/ That is a big step, isn't it? I'm surprised there is not a bigger reaction from forum members. Is there a low probability of Pakistan involvement...

From what I heard via Indian media recently, Pakistan is expected to receive Chinese 5G fighters within the next 2 years. How does that tie in with getting KAAN in the future?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-casulaties-soldiers-putin-peace-talks-nato-live-b2683244.html Putin knows all about NATO article 5. If he wanted to attack a European country supporting Ukraine, the time to attack was before Finland and Sweden joined NATO.

Would be good... and could keep keyboards busy up to 2050 or so! Or perhaps not such a short time :)

Perhaps I am being ignorant but why should Turkiye need an alternative assembly line in a different location? Indonesia? Ask ROK what it is like as a partner.

Begs the question: is it the foreign policy of the President of the United States to support Ukraine in its fight for freedom?

I agree that it is uncertain how long it will take Russia to break through Ukrainian ground defences. It is also uncertain how long the Russian economy/government finances can last out before something cracks in a big way. Which will happen first? I have no idea how long Ukraine's ground...

I imagine that a 4 engine aircraft is far better suited to being a flying testbed than a 2 engine testbed. - engines on A340/B747 provide far more thrust (200kN+) than any engine intended for use on a fighter - I imagine it is easier to convert a larger aircraft into a testbed, given it has far...

Your source quotes PPP rather than GDP. Not the same thing. I gave you a link from an economics site. Here is another list on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

I am baffled by the 'man-man or women-women or trans-trans.' thing but I do not believe for one moment that the majority of marriages are between these people. Closer to 1%, I guess. By the way, decades ago Britain invited people from the West Indies and the Indian sub-continent to immigrate...

Most sources say that Russia has the 11th highest GDP in the world. eg https://www.forbesindia.com/article/explainers/top-10-largest-economies-in-the-world/86159/1 What is happening with the ruble? That's complicated. Suffice to say that it is forecast to keep falling, leading to higher...

EU GDP 2023 was 17 triillion euros. I don't see 50 billion euros sent to Ukraine ruining the EU. Russia GDP 2023 was less than 2 triillion euros equivalent. I do see a 200+ billion euros equivalent spent on Ukraine this year ruining Russia. (Russian numbers not precise since Russia is hiding...

I imagine that they have been rushing to get everything done for the last few weeks to ensure that everything going to Ukraine got going (by sea or air or Swift) to avoid any possibility of a new president stopping it.

My reply was to the suggestion that Turkiye should 1 become a partner in the Tempest engine project 2 the Tempest engine could be used in KAAN As far as I know (which is little) Tempest is likely to be a very large fighter since both Japan and UK want a fighter with great range, probably a...

I think the engine for the Tempest may turn out to produce much more power than is needed by the KAAN. In any event I guess that RR have been working on a design for 10+ years, given that the UK revealed its Tempest project at the Farnborough air show in 2018. With Japanese and Italian...