Why are we talking about Chinese EUV lithography? It's not like we're sanctioned or anything.
But EUV is not all there is, you need billions to get a fab running and even than its not guaranteed success.
If this is like any of the other deals, Repkon is only supplying the production line and machinery. Sadly no JV or long lasting partnership. Still good, but would be nicer to be part of the supply chain.
If even only every second € lands in the pockets of TAI, it could bring the Hürjet already close to break even. Even without bigger orders so far from our armed forces.
I just checked out the wikipedia page of Martin Baker and even Chinese aircraft use their products. We dont need to reinvent the wheel and need to keep costs in check too.
I think no one doubts that Iran is defenseless, absolute air superiority for Israel.
But with the ongoing military censorship there is no way to know if Israeli military installations were not hit at all. Also very unlikely imo.
At least it seems like we're kinda not putting all eggs in one basket this time.
There might be new F16, maybe Eurofighters maybe even F35 or a combination of all three.
Hope we dont mess it up this time, because we a huge gap to bridge.
Thats good and all but we need a better infrastructure and investments in conventional rail.
Our network is not sufficient.
Ukraine is alife today due to its Soviet era network.
Context:
Germany needs orders to keep the Eurofighter assembly line in Germany busy and running until Tranche 5 comes, or something.
Otherwise it will be closed and the engineers etc will probably leave the country to work on other projects.