They probably will still order more Eurofighters to maintain their fleet but not too many, and modernize existing. Europe is a bit divided and undecided for their future strategy of whether to happily rely on America and stay under its protective wings or decide to be a stronger entity of its...
Maldives is tiny and has a tiny army and budget. We have some influence in Somalia and there is Pakistan but our naval presence in that region is what exactly? Their entire defense budget isn't enough to buy half a corvette so are they expecting us to form a base and contribute to their defense...
I have a question about Gökdeniz and MAR-D. In the Barbaros modernization we see a MAR-D on a small second mast, alongside Smart-S but while Gökdeniz is not yet installed in concept it's missing an independent radar. Assumption is that it will use the ships radar. On TCG Istanbul however...
He doesn't say ready to be integrated, he says it could power it. I think SSB isplaying wait and see while TEI is funding the project so they just want to be given a tender or something to fund the development.
When a japanese studio is doing it they might even take it as declaration of war. I think there was some instance where japan had released a strategy document and there were some imagery on cover like a horseman or something that china got really mad about thinking it implies aggression and idea...
Proliferation of SAM systems is an ongoing process. How would you like to buy 100 planes 100 million euro each in an environment where they would all be shot down by your enemy the moment they took off and approached your border?
A few things. KAAN is supposed to supercruise, although a version that can't would still be fine honestly. KAAN is a big plane so that could mean significantly higher drag coefficient. On top, compared to something like F22, the actual wing area is smaller so lift is going to be an issue too.
