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I find it positive and support the deepening of defense cooperation especially with Spain and Italy, and secondarily with the UK. However, if we have not yet reached the industrial maturity to develop an construct aircraft carriers directly, I don't see the need to push for it. The cost of...

Then there should be not only 3, but 3+3 parallel production for the İstif class. That is, 2025-26 launching the first 3 frigates, 2027-2028 launching the second three, batch-II frigates. The targeted schedule for the TF-2000 lead ship is already around 2027-2028. In short, what I want to say is...

Instead of attempting a third hull design like the TF-4500 (1st arm İ class 2nd arm TF-2000), I am in favor of designing a Batch-II by giving the Milgem-II İstif class another 10-12 meters in length. I mean a frigate in the 3400-3600 ton displacement range with a more powerful main mast and...

At a press conference held at the LITEXPO Exhibition and Fair Center, President Erdoğan made a statement confirming the aim to take steps regarding Airbus. While there were no technical details in the statement, we may see concrete steps in the near future regarding the purchase of additional...

"We will install an ASELSAN AESA radar on the Hürjet, and its nose is made accordingly. In this way, it will be the same as the F-16 radar, and we will place our missiles on it. For the hourly flight costs of the Hürjet, you can divide the average flight cost of an F-16 by 5." Temel Kotil | TAI...

While the Qatar squadron stationed in Konya can be used to develop tactical training and countermeasure systems and strategies against strategic air force assets in Greek hands: Greek access to the strategic assets that TR will soon be commissioning will not be available to them, nor will they...

The TAF is apparently considering operating 119 (40+79) AN/APG-83s and at least around same numbers of MURAD-AESAs on combatant fleets. So the TAF will have more AN/APG-83s than the Greek Air Force, plus an AESA radar completely inaccessible to the Greeks.

About 2 years ago, Otokar signed a cooperation agreement with Milrem Robotics for the development of unmanned and remotely controlled land systems. The system launched today appears to be a scaled MBT design with similar approaches to Milrem's Type-X concept. On the other hand, on the same day...

40 F-16 Block 70s with CFTs are targeted for acquisition, which will most likely enable the F 4E 2020Ts to be taken out of active service. In addition, 79 B-70 kits are targeted for procurement from the US. F-16s in the inventory -for reminding-: - 29 F-16 Block 50+ with CFTs - 71 F-16 Block...

After news, Aselsan shares went through the roof on the stock exchange today. Just when we were talking about 20 billion dollars, it felt like medicine. A total contract size of over 2 billion dollars indicates a large-scale F-16 modernization? If so, I think Murad-AESA for F-16s is now ready...

Some Akp MPs and even some former ministers (Varank for example) have announced that they will vote no for Sweden. At first, I likened it to the failed March 1 decree process, but it is more like a collusion. The impression is that the presidency is not putting up much resistance to the US...

Yes, but at what pace, at what rate? Please explain this $20 billion to me in such a way that I can be more hopeful about the future of a sophisticated modernization program arising from the OZGUR project. I don't know how we will squeeze ÖZGÜR into the same period when we are signing the...

Worse, if this $20 billion is only for the combatant fleets, there are other needs that could amount to about as much as this. Especially in logistics and some specific types, aircrafts, ground platforms etc. Unfortunately, our air force has been slow in acquiring new aircraft platforms for a...

I am just trying to put the developments in a logical framework. I don't claim to be right, and I could probably be wrong about a lot of things. Bahçeli's statement on the issue and his clear statement on the unacceptability of the situation is an important detail. He even went further and said...

The US had set the 2023 NATO leaders' summit as a deadline 3-4 months ago. So today. The US failed to achieve this, but TR announced that it would submit the decision to the parliament, that is, at the presidential level, it announced that it approved Sweden's membership under the conditions...

Why are you so surprised? When the cabinet was formed, it was already clear that the NATO process would somehow move forward. Time will tell what we got and what we didn't. The above statement is not mine, and as I wrote in the other thread, I think that most of these promised elements will not...

Ocean-going heavy frigates and destroyers, which realize area dominance, are probably the largest sources of electronic noise on the ocean. It is this warfare capability that makes these ships intimidating war machines and requires to stay out of scanning and engagement range from them. So there...

Just 3 days ago RTE stated that Ukraine deserves NATO membership and clearly supports them. There are less than a handful of NATO member states that can say this openly. So, TR's legitimate demands have nothing to do with undermining NATO interests, as is propagated against them. On the...

The refugee and Syria problem, visa-free travel, I don't have much hope on these issues. But fast steps can be taken on updating the customs union and fighter jet procurement. Because the preparations on these issues are almost complete.