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Atak-2 is designed as a naval chopper and the navy will buy Atak-2.

I think Turkish-US relations will stay at the transactional frenemies level until the US understands there is a big power competition out there and the US might risk losing it by making an enemy out of Turkiye. Once the US loses its hegemon power status and the US dollar loses reserve currency...

Yeah, this is old news. TAI has to deliver the first MMU in 2029 at the latest according to the contract. This is the airforce requirement but that doesn't stop them to deliver the first fighter earlier. I think TAI will deliver the first fighter earlier than 2029.

Fleets? Do you mean squadrons?

I disagree. Turkiye will order something like 40 Atak-2 for the land forces and will call it a day. 120-140 Atak choppers are enough we have a huge UAV fleet. Specs ops, navy and air force might also order in small numbers. The Navy will probably eventually reach 16 choppers (8+8), spec ops...

The US doesn't want to be seen like the US authorities are helping the opposition and anti-US rhetoric is high in Turkiye a harsh report will likely contribute to Erdogan's election campaign.

Upgrades on Faz 2 is Faz 3. It is not named Faz 3 as there will be no new production but in time all Faz 2 choppers will be upgraded to whatever it will be called.

Yeah, we also probably want to show them the level we are at so that they can understand the situation better.

This is not true.

We should name the Turkish version Gökbörü and the export/international version Skywolf and actively market TFX with the Skywolf name in the international arena similar to Bora/Khan. This solves everything. Skywolf also makes sense because TFX will command a "wolf pack" that consists of...

If we buy 40 new Vipers and 79 upgrade kits, we should also ask for the assembly of 40 Turkish Vipers and 80-100 Vipers for international customers. TAI can make good money from that workshare.

It is related to President's calendar which is related to the elections in late April or May.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID

Another grape farmer drilled near the area where the oil-like substance is discovered and found this. I don't understand why no expert from TPAO has ever visited the area since the first discovery.

IRST efficiency depends on atmospheric conditions and enemy IR signature. There are special coatings that are similar to RAM coatings that reduce IR signatures of the fighter body. There are techniques in use with jet engines that reduce the IR signature exhaust cooling with cooling air, or a...

It depends. If the RCS of Su-30 is 10 square meter and the detection range of the APG-83 for a target with an RCS of 1 square meter is 120km as one of the sources claim, the detection range for SU-30 is over 200km.

All of the electronics, FCS, armor, powerpack (Korean, later Turkish)

A Greek F-16 block 70 upgraded with APG-83 SABR can only detect a fighter with an RCS of 0.01 square meters at 29km and a fighter with an RCS of 0.001 square meters at 16km. That is why Kızılelma is important and game-changing. Even with a modest 0.01 square meter RCS value an F-16 block 70 will...

It is not ready.

Because there is no platform to put it on.