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Regarding Turkiye having an interest in procuring Eurofighter, Erdogan does not seem to know how to talk to Germany unless you deem that launching into a tirade about Israel when giving a speech in Germany is an example of knowing how to talk to Germany. By the way, I think that both Israel and...

In my opinion buying EF2000 would be wise - if President Erdogan has not unwisely made that a very unlikely possibility.

If you can make your own weapons, why buy them? The US, UK, France, Germany, Italy et al can make a lot of weapons but import many weapons they could make themselves. The US has invested hundreds of billions of US dollars in R&D (perhaps many trillions) to become supreme in weapons...

I believe that the US Congress clears export deals up to a certain value ie $23 billion is the most the deal could be worth, not the definitive contract value. PS I guess that LM will be asking as high a price as they can squeeze out of Turkiye, given its urgent need to strengthen its fighter...

@Nilgiri, @Marlii - interesting to hear what you have to say. I am a little confused. If there is no great need for India to acquire a 5G aircraft, why is India looking at paying SAFRAN $5+ billion to develop an engine suitable for use with AMCA? I have no doubt that SAFRAN can pass on the...

Because India wants sovereignty over AMCA - no dependence on a foreign engine supplier. It would be better to know that can be achieved (ie a contract with SAFRAN giving India full sovereignty over the engine) before launching the AMCA programme. If a deal cannot be agreed with SAFRAN, either...

I read a few days ago that a spokesperson for DRDO or ADA or HAL announced that AMCA would fly 4-7 years after CCS gave the go ahead. Given that almost everything concerning indigenous fighter programmes has been done many years late, my assumption is that date of CCS approval + 7 years is the...

Unless I have been misinformed by Indian sources, the design was completed at the end of 2022. It was being forwarded for CDR by IAF. IAF approved CDR early 2023 so the next step was CCS approval. Nearly a year later there is no word of that happening. I wonder if GOI wants to see a contract...

Interesting. RR spends more than a billion US dollars a year on R&D and development. As far as I know GTRE has spent less than half a billion US dollars on Kaveri over 25+ years. Unless GTRE tries a lot harder and better, I will not be surprised if an afterburning 80kN Kaveri is quietly shelved...

My bad - I thought you wrote EOL. How long will deliberation of quotes take? Any reason not to start work now on getting the afterburner design frozen and tested?

What is an 'EoL', please. Is GTRE inviting Indian companies to bid for a contract to make blades + vane assemblies already designed?

Does that imply that GTRE has achieved 80kN reliably with an afterburner?

Does anyone know if the original afterburner version of Kaveri is slated for revival? With 200+ Tejas of both types likely to be in IAF service, 200+ engines should be needed for through life engine replacements. What about the 'Marut' trainer, too? I believe that SAFRAN sorted the vibration...

UK met office predicts Ankara weather Friday - temp >0C 0900 partial cloud, wind 5km/ph 1200 clear, wind 6km/ph 1500 partial cloud, wind 15km/ph Tuesday - temp <0C 0900 partial cloud, wind 4km/ph 1200 clear, wind 4km/ph 1500 clear, wind 5km/ph

Sure, but how much of a good weather window is required? I would think that a forecast 48 hour good weather window would allow time to organise in advance and fly on one of those 2 days. I remember watching the Boeing 777X sit on the runway for its first flight, abandon FF due to weather then...

Last week Kotil was reported to say FF would be in coming days. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/science-technology/turkish-fighter-jet-kaan-near-final-stretch-for-maiden-flight/3104076# Is FF date in the next few days or in the next few weeks? I hear that timing may be governed by a mixture of...

I would hope the design is done and dusted. HAL is supposed to start deliveries by the end of March.

GE F414 was selected for Tejas Mk2 (over EJ200) many years ago. When you talk of RR and Safran, I think you are referring to the 110+kN engine needed for AMCA Mk2. As far as I know, that is intended to be developed with Safran. I imagine that negotiations over the specification and cost are...

I find the propaganda extremely trying although the more extreme claims can be viewed as amusing. as you point out, like Ukraine having lost far more materiel than it ever had. I wonder what proportion of Ukraine's F-16's Russia will have destroyed in a few months' time: 50%/100%/200%? Where...

Russia is de facto a dictatorship. The people of Russia are prevented from voting for any candidate they choose to support. They are prevented from voting for Navalny. They are prevented from voting for Yekaterina Duntsova. As for Orban, when he is in a minority of one with a couple of dozen...