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Today Yavuz drillship left the harbor to attach the production valve called Christmas tree to the first well of the Sakarya gas field. Now 3 of the 4 advanced drillships of the TPAO work in the Blacksea gas field. Fatih drillship is drilling a new exploratory well at the Gökçebey-1 location...

I hope it does but nearly everyone I know speaks about huge delays even for the first submarine and gives 2023 as a likely date for commissioning.

Yes, it does, but it is in development for MILDEN submarine project. Milden is planned for the 2030s. This is so important. I can understand a delay for the second third fourth submarine but I can't understand a year delay for the first submarine. It was on the verge of starting sea trials...

Patrol ship my ass. This ship has a heavier weapon load than a Milgem. 76mm MKE naval cannon, Gökdeniz, Atmaca, Hisar-O+, Yalman turret(UMTAS,L-UMTAS, Cirit, Sungur). We can see the classical Turkish "we want the best of everything" approach here. Ok, let's construct a ship for patrol duties...

%100 agreed. This is not a big problem for us as Blacksea, Sea of islands and Mediterranean are obviously smaller than Pacific, Atlantic or the Indian Ocean. Total underwater time is less important. Arguably a Turkish Li-Ion U-214TN can be better than a German AIP U-214 under those...

It is too late for both of those. We got what we wanted from that project. We got ToT and we can complete those subs on our own albeit with delays. The new German government really hates Turkiye. There are openly hostile figures like Cem Özdemir in the German government. They won't miss any...

BTW the president won't say we will look for other alternatives if you take it easy just for "technical" or "covid based" delays. https://www.yeniakit.com.tr/haber/baskan-erdogandan-almanyaya-sitem-isi-biraz-gevsekten-aliyorlar-1580373.html

Covid is a "force majoure" Germans are pushing it forward to stall the delivery of the submarines and not to be sued back by TR. Even Erdo and defense minister Akar pointed out the games played behind the curtain in the past. Nobody in Turkish admin buys the covid excuse. It is surprising to me...

Brits got big money for the engines of ~500 fighters (250 for TR+250 for export). A single-engine might cost 5 million $ so 1000+ engines will cost 5 billion+ and Brits will continue profiting in the future when we take life cycle costs into the consideration. Big mind games were played by both...

Lol, the export restrictions came after the engine talks fell through. But Brits didn't follow it letter by letter most of the trade continued with some of them denied. Now they are lifting it after the engine deal happened and they made Canada lift its restrictions too.

Ridiculously high. Countries that can buy AH-64, will buy AH-64 at that price point. Countries that cant get congress approval might buy Atak-2. We should keep the cost under 50million $.

It is not just the gearbox. Gearbox has been in development from the start and TEI knew very well that it will be subject to an export license. But it seems like delivery of the basic accessories like oil pumps, oil tanks, and oil coolers was also denied so TEI went the extra mile to nationalize...

Sad news Reis class submarine project (U-214TN) is delayed at least another year(probably after 2023 elections) because of the German embargo. Germans gave "covid delays" as one of the reasons and are playing the stalling game. No official embargo on naval systems but also stopping delivery for...

Alp Havacılık gearbox project is an old project, it goes back to the early days of TS-1400 but It seems like we are nationalizing accessories of the engine probably those are embargoed for a military version. The west sunk so low to even embargo basic accessories. Now it is also clear why a...

This will be indeed very good for us and worth signing the contract under those terms but unfortunately, it won't get congress's approval. We need a miracle for this to happen.

We discussed this matter a lot. No new F-16 jets can be delivered before 2027-2028 unless the US agrees to set up a production line at TAI which is highly unlikely for 40 new fighters. There are fewer problems with the modernization of old F-16s. Serial modernization can be done rather quickly...

I hope congress denies the sale.

Italians should lobby the US for the export license. There are some influential Italians in the US.

Since the news comes from the Russian media I'm skeptical at the moment.

It is not just the car itself. TOGG comes with an entire ecosystem. For example, batteries will be used in house appliances, submarines, aircraft, EVs, energy storage solutions, etc. Software development for IOT (internet of things). Extraction and purification of rare earth elements...