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So, first near production-representative prototype will start test flights 2025. In 2026 3/4(?) aircraft will be conducting test flights? Will TAI start production before testing is complete?

I wonder when the claim that TuAF will receive KAAN in 2028 will be shelved and a revised schedule will be announced. I don't see how the necessary testing can be completed, production started, aircraft built and delivered with no flight testing of production-representative aircraft until 2025...

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If you mean around $150million for a flyaway F-35A, KAAN's flyaway price looks to be a lot lower. Of course, price is just one thing. Capability is another. Operating cost is another. Providing that KAAN has a lot more capability than the 4G fighters countries need to replace in the 2030's, why...

So, if want to buy an F-35A with an engine in it to replace one I've lost in an accident, what figure do I write on the cheque I write to LM?

What is expensive? F-35 costs about $80 million flyaway. Let's guess KAAN costs $110 million flyaway. I believe that USAF F-35 CPFH >$30,000 Let's guess that TuAF KAAN CPFH >$20,000 Over 6,000 flight hours USAF cost for flying F-35 = $80 million + >$180 million Over 6,000 flight hours TuAF...

About Mr Kotil seeing KAAN selling 300... If KAAN lives up to its performance expectations and is not very expensive to procure and operate several other countries could order it: Azerbaijan, Pakistan (if it can find the money), conceivably Indonesia - I assume Indonesia will be replaced in the...

He says that a prototype close to the first block production aircraft will fly in 2025. Is that going to be the second prototype, expected to be rolled out this month?

Who knows how many sales this song will achieve. Songs with such remarkable music, voices and lyrics are few and far between... ...thank goodness. What a ghastly heap of sh*t that song is.

BBC is an independent, non-governmental organisation with a news department known for its high reporting standards. Have a look at the BBC video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj7dzr92m17o If they are right in reporting the sound of a turbojet coming from the missile it is not possible...

About the hospital... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/9/search-for-survivors-as-ukraine-mourns-after-wave-of-deadly-strikes#:~:text=Ukrainian%20officials%2C%20however%2C%20said%20they,Tuesday%2C%20citing%20its%20own%20analysis.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-air-defence-engaged-repelling-russian-missile-attack-kyiv-officials-2024-07-08/#:~:text=An%20online%20video%20obtained%20by,an%20Kh%2D101%20cruise%20missile. No evidence? A video of a cruise missile heading for the hospital is not evidence? PS If...

US is preventing Ukraine defending itself from attack by restricting use of the long range strike weapons it supplied (eg ATACMS). The US may not have attacked a children's hospital in Ukraine but they have made it easy for Russia to attack Ukraine and very difficult for Ukraine to hit back at...

MBT I recall that various countries wanted to send Leopards. That was delayed and it was only when UK announced it was transferring Challengers that decisions were made to allow the transfer of Leopards and Abrams. Fighters I recall that various countries wanted to send MiG-29's. That was...

I agree. The withholding of able weaponry (tanks, fighters, HIMARS, ATACMS etc) when this was a mobile war that Ukraine could win made no sense if Ukraine's suppliers wanted to liberate Ukraine. The restriction on use of ATACMS, leaving Ukraine open to attack from Russian bases makes no sense...

I think that there are about 200 countries at the UN. How many recognise Kherson, for example, as being part of Russia? Russia, North Korea, Syria. Any others? You could have an election in Kherson but what would be the point if south of the Dnipro people could not vote? Even if there were a...

How do you hold an election with parts of your country occupied by foreign troops?

Chavez and Maduro brought their country to its knees. Would it not be good for Maduro to be brought down? From Wiki: A country with massive oil reserves in which people cannot feed themselves. Something is seriously wrong (with its government)...

They've demolished the place, more or less, so why stay any longer? Even if they had managed to get rid of all Hamas in Gaza, their inhuman behaviour must surely have created thousands more Israel-haters than before IDF entered Gaza. In the same way the inhuman behaviour of Hamas on October 7th...

Indeed, no 'reliable' data on Ukrainian losses. Are Russian losses roughly correct? I do not know but I see trends in the numbers reported and they seem to be high at the moment. If, for example, one month Russian losses are reported as 500 per day and the next month they are reported as 1,000...