Just calling out simple minded dudes, who believe religion is the universal cure to their societal ills. Unfortunately the Muslim world doesn‘t listen to me. Their loss 😁
Can‘t understand these Erdogan fanboys from 3rd world countries mumbling about Islam here and Muslims there. Mostly from states with 55% literacy rate and 55 years life expectancy.
The foundation of Türkiye‘s modernization was Mustafa Kemal‘s vision of a new Turkish state: the adoption of...
South Korea’s 2nd KSS III Submarine Commissioned with ROK Navy
South Korea’s DAPA (Defense Acquisition Program Administration) has announced that the second KSS-III Batch I submarine, ROKS Ahn Mu (SS-085), was commissioned with the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy.
The event took place today at...
Now Turkish navy needs IMO all resources for AAW destroyers, heavy multipurpose frigates, domestic SSK, unmanned surface and submarine vehicles. And the smartest advance planning is to fix the economy for a solid financial base in the 30s to acquire expensive assets like ACs.
To be honest: Korean aircraft carrier plans (light or medium) are too expensive. A waste of manpower and resources, economically non-viable and strategically questionable at best.
South Korea‘s development plans for CVX have changed, still in evaluation phase.
From ligh to medium aircraft carrier:
50,000+ empty displacement
60,000+ full displacement
Conventional propulsion
CATOBAR (EMALS, AAG)
KF-21N navalized, no F-35B...
Korean and Japanese navy don‘t follow US and European tradition of tonnage declaration. All tonnages of ROKN and JMSDF surface ships are declared as empty displacement.
CVX plans have changed from light aircraft carrier to „medium size“ which means 50,000+ t empty and 60,000+ t full. With...
Korea had roughly three competing kingdoms on the peninsula and in Manchuria. You must mix them up with the many warring states and dynasties of ancient China.
Since Unified Silla dynasty in 668 AD and the real unification under Goryeo dynasty in 935 AD Korea was a stable nation state for 1.000...
Turkiye and TAI literally spent billions of $, decades of learning, technology transfer, absorbing knowledge and gaining experience in aircraft license manufacturing, scientific research on university and institute level, a grown ecosystem of aerospace companies and subsystem manufacturers...
It‘s billions $ spent on R&D and years of experience by construction of previous aircraft carriers with hydraulic arresting gears. Nothing of that was done in Turkiye. So, hard work only doesn‘t result in anything without a proper development plan, engineering capabilities, technical ecosystem...
For Korea: I‘m all for nuclear-propelled submarines with SLBM. In the next decades we have to go nuclear and SSN are the perfect deterrence. Every dollar spent will secure the survival of our people.
An aircraft carrier is expensive and not a real strategic deterrence. It will show them Chinese...
What Turkiye needs most are AAW destroyers and heavy multi-purpose frigates (AAW, ASW) and indigenously designed 3,000+ t SSK (with domestic AIP or Li-Ion batteries) like the MILDEN. These projects alone will eat up all naval budget resources in the coming decade.
And these warships and...
IMO we would need at least 3x 5,000-6,000 t SSN to hunt down DPRK ballistic missile submarines, Chinese and Japanese carrier groups and as a 2nd strike retaliation platform with more powerful, longer range SLBMs … and at best with nuclear warheads on the tips 😉
I don‘t know what some members here are smoking. There‘s not one existing LHD installed with arresting gear, for good reasons.
Only 4 countries in this world manufacture naval arresting gear: US, UK, Russia and China. Even France imports them from General Atomics.
1. Hydraulic arresting gears...
It isn‘t decided yet what will come after KSS-III. A batch of 3 new 4.000+ t attack submarines with VLS (possible nuclear propulsion).
Plans of CVX has been changed from light to medium aicraft carrier (CATOBAR, 60.000+ t full displacement) with navalized KF-21...
Via Korea Defense Blog
Republic of Korea Navy's first FFX Batch-III frigate ROKS Chungnam (FFG-828) was launched today by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) on 10 April 2023
ROKS Chungnam, displacing at 3,600 tons (empty), is the lead ship of its class and is 129m long, 14.8m wide, and 38.9m tall...
There‘s a fundamental shift of Japan‘s military policy from defensive to an offensive posture. Because of China‘s rise (Taiwan conflict), North Korea‘s missile launches and Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine.
„Helicopter destroyers“ Izumo and Kaga are converted to aircraft carriers with F-35B. Basing...
I‘m biased as a Korean: Never trust the sneaky Japanese. Their MIC is absorbing and accumulating drone technology and tactical knowledge (HW, SW, doctrine etc.) from US and Israeli sources. Now from Turkey as well.
Their endgame is to build up a serious indigenous drone ecosystem: they have all...
Congrats my friends! It‘s not the most beautiful prototype (as I thought it would look) but the most Turkish state-of-the-art fighter jet.
Impressive production quality and development progress. Still full of unexpected twists and rapid schedule changes and unorthodox methods of you crazy Turks...
