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Sure. Ukraine conducted hundreds of air and missile strikes against Russia and invaded it with armoured vehicles and tens of thousands of troops. didn't it? Or have I got that wrong?

It might be time to try undoing the damage caused to German-Turkish relations when President Erdogan last went to Germany.

An extraordinary report in defensenews... https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/02/02/south-korea-to-start-mass-production-of-kf-21-fighter-jets/ I wonder if this is inaccurately reported or mistranslated or if there is a typo (4 jets to be built this year, not 40).

We enter the realms of absurdity here, don't we?

For decades fighter production in India has been allocated exclusively to GOI-owned HAL, depriving other Indian aerospace companies of any experience. GOI belatedly decided to involve the private sector, inviting expressions of interest in producing AMCA through the offices of a GOI/privately...

I don't know exactly what terms Turkiye wanted that ROK did not want to offer and vice versa. I don't know what terms Indonesia agreed with ROK but it was clear that Indonesia agreed to pay 20% of the development cost of the K-FX/I-FX project. It is also clear that Indonesia has not done that...

My interest is in Indonesian aviation in respect of its involvement in the KF-X/I--FX programme.. In common with several other countries I am confident that Indonesia will strengthen economically vis a vis the more established economies and those more established economies will undoubtedly try...

I don't have any interest in conspiracy theory. If I did, I might say that ROK set up an Indonesian engineer to smuggle some data out of the plant. Why? So they could catch an Indonesian committing a security breach, giving ROK an excuse to end the partnership. It has already been asked how this...

Sorry. I don't speak your language, so I cannot read your source. How much did you invest in setting up to assemble KF-21? How far did you get? I'm just curious.

Interesting to hear that Indonesia did not invest in domestic production. Sounds like the deal is dead. I imagine that ROK is talking to Poland (which has shown interest in joining the project) about replacing Indonesia.

I am pretty sure I can tell you why there isn't any money available for Indonesia to pay its share of KF-21 development costs. The money was spent buying Rafales.

Unless Indonesia developed and holds technology essential to the programme, I see another country paying to take over Indonesia's share of the programme, by which means ROK should get its money back. Of course getting Indonesia out of the programme would probably lose any expected Indonesian...

I wonder how much longer ROK will be prepared to 'partner' with Indonesia on this project. Indonesia does not pay its share of development costs and fails to honour all undertakings to rectify the situation. There is suspicion of industrial espionage by one or more Indonesian engineers.

5G fighters all look just about the same to me!

UK, France and Sweden have been designing supersonic fighters for over 70 years. UK and France have built stealthy UAV demonstrators, both with first flight in 2012 - BAE Systems Taranis and Dassault Neuron. I suspect that BAE Systems and Dassault have a better understanding of supersonic...

If that is the case buying S-400 (which resulted in exclusion from the F-35 program) was a good move!

Talking of F-35...

The plot seems to be fairly transparent to me. Is Kotil being pressurised to get Kaan into the air against his better judgement? Why was GTU-0 repurposed from static test bed unless it was to roll Kaan out to the nation early? I presume that taking GTU-0 out of commission as a test bed would...

Is he being pressurised to announce good news prematurely?

It's a case of availability versus certainty (plus cost), isn't it? Kaan with an indigenous engine looks to be quite a few years away from availabiity but will bring certainty of serviceability. F-16 should be available sooner but without certainty of ongoing serviceability (risk of US parts...