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I think our hi-lo mix in manned jets is going to be hi-legacy for a while. We modernize many F-16s and they should be able to work until the 2040s for the ROI of that investment to make sense. 20 years from now we can much more easily design a new low-type plane.

0.0015 in X-band if I recall correctly. With concentration on an arc, it gives almost 120 km even with that RCS. But as you said, detecting it and directing a Siper missile to it are two different things. Hopefully the people who made EIRS put some thought in how to use the FCR better as well.

If I remember the radar formula correctly (and I might not be), the maximum range is linear in RCS^(1/4). So if 470 km for 1 m2 is correct, it would mean 264 km for 0.1 m2, 149 km for 0.01, and 84 km for 0.001. I don't know what the RCS of F-35 is in the S-band, but there seems to be a good...

I would also like to see TAI have a general roadmap for all our aircraft needs. For example, a medium and large passenger plane base should be designed as it can be used in multiple ways: AWACS, naval cooperation aircraft, tankers, cargo planes (and helicopters), and civilian state planes...

If Greeks were to confiscate a USV or shoot down a drone, there would probably be war anyway, or at least some retaliation to give them casualties.

This is a classic Western-style hit-piece that comes out pretty much every time Turkey announces some good news. In the article they grudgingly have to accept that Turkey might have really found a huge deposit but hopefully it doesn't matter because maybe the its concentration is lower or maybe...

This is horrible news. I hope it is the journalists who made the error and not our decision makers.

This is gotta be the limited edition gold-coated F-16s. Turkey's objection to Sweden and Finland is not a wish for a cynical trade-off but it legitimately targets these countries' support for terror groups. It would be best not to overshadow the legitimate objection with such a bad trade deal...

You would buy it for economic reasons. I have seen a lot of total cost of ownership calculations for Tesla where it turns out that the initial premium you pay for the car itself is offset by the profit you make on electricity vs oil. And that was before the spike of oil prices. If TOGG is...

On an unrelated note, we should have taken the name Skywolf. There is the wolf connotation as always and "Gökbörü" (sky wolf or blue wolf) has been a thing since the Gokturk Empire. Maybe it could be used for an aircraft in the future.

Yeah actually, I would. It would be the most legitimate reason for war.

Meh, it's for Greece's own good.

You seem to be seriously deluded. Iran is not "far superior to any military in the neighboring states by an overwhelming margin", especially if you include Turkey in that list. Its army is actually quite inferior to any modern military. It has had success in directing terror organizations in...

The exports of countries like Australia, Brazil and Iran to China tend to be mining ores (REE or others) or natural resources. Similarly Turkey's vast majority of imports from Russia are natural resources. It is much better to make these comparisons after taking out those types of trades. If you...

When you say Block 30 Ozgur completed, does that mean development of systems is complete or did all the Block 30 planes actually receive the modernization? There was news a while back that the serial production and modernization began in Block 30 planes but it looked like it would take a lot of...

Indeed it would present a great opportunity to gain know-how. That is why I view the deal so positively. But it would also be a resource drain and a temptation to cancel the MMU project and continue with Tempest, which itself may not materialize until too late due to the UK having F-35s and not...

You had me at Tempest cooperation. Normally I would not want Eurofighters on top of the F-16V deal and Ozgur, but Tempest cooperation on its own would make that deal worthy. I just hope if this happens, MMU program doesn't suffer.

Thorium reactors produce 6/1000 of the waste produced by uranium reactors as it says in that twitter thread. Another huge benefit is its safety. Uranium reactors have Chernobyl-like accidents when the core melts down. But here you are already working with molten salt so there is nothing to melt...

There is no second condition in the books at the moment. It wasn't there in the House of Representatives and it's not in the amendment in the Senate AFAIK, so it most likely will not come out of the mixed committee afterwards. Individual senators might list their wet dreams of course.

Unpopular opinion but I think we should accept the F-16V deal as it is with the constraints regarding Greece. F-16s are the most optimal choice technically and I think Greek lobbies that try to isolate Turkey from US by making this deal unacceptable did not think things through. First of all...