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"Turkey had backed away from purchasing the F-16s and relayed this to US officials. Key members of Congress pushed back, telling they saw Turkey’s acquisition as a confidence-building step, my sources on the Hill said. From Trump’s remarks, it appears he will press Ankara to proceed with the...

Bloomberg: "According to Turkish officials familiar with the matter, the Turkish president will seek deals ranging from defence to energy worth tens of billions of dollars. Turkey plans to buy 40 F-35 jets, 40 F-16 Vipers and ammunition, including bombs and missiles, the officials said. The two...

It wasn't. It was designed for Harriers. It needs large modifications on its flight deck to be able to handle F-35B operations.

And back in SD :P It had or will have its steel cut ceremony

Unles we start toeing the line on Israel officially, I don't expect such a package. Probably airliners which have been expected now for more than a year and a "final finalization" of F-16s. Regardless this is one joint presser i'll be watching live.

Well that didn't take long. "Demiroğlu stated that the production of 15 aircraft is currently in full swing at TUSAŞ, adding, "The goal is to continue delivering 10 aircraft by the end of the year. We will deliver 15 in 2026, 15 in 2027, and the rest in 2028."...

That's debatable, C5 and C7 models don't have two way datalinks. That's just a poorly supported claim.

If they feel like it, a detuned TS1400 for lighter helicopters like AW119 at 900-1000bhp range could be interesting like the PT6B. Margins there are razor thin but much bigger market.

These are entirely different systems. Turkey did use standard interfaces for PGMs in the past. Some munitions were interfaced as American ones, some, like SOM couldn't use one or two of the firing mods due to limitations while in flight and had to be armed while still on the ground etc. Can't...

True in all counts. This is all because Hürjet is a trainer aircraft by its nature. It will have some combat capability, but never will be a thoroughbred, it wasn't designed to be. Re carriers, I think it will nonetheless be a good enough part of naval OKU/MUM-T.

That's the crux. They are using MAMs on Akıncı. It's a glorified TB2. Useless for modern proxy war, when the other side can deploy medium range SAMs on spot. We're not in 2020 anymore.

It took Aselsan a decade to create the Özgür suite. Aselsan had worked on F-16 for 20 years before that. That is a very tall order and EW integration would also be very hard, for starters, noone is opening up the radar to us. I really doubt that. EF employees will be present in Ankara for...

Why? These would take at least 5+ years to set up, create, integrate. There's no way the first 40 aircraft come with our own EW.

Nothing on EF and talks that F-16 deal is essentially stopped.

It's a distributed mobile system that can be relocated in a matter of tens of minutes. It's an increased risk to all of our air assets. It's not a "doomsday" scenario, it's here today and will make all our business there whether in peace or in war much harder. It increases the risk of a...

Possible configuration of the Romanian Hisar, with 8 cell vls in place of the DSH rocket launcher, 8 NSMs, 2 Phalanx(?!), Gokdeniz and Smart-S(?). It's not a great drawing, but possibly illustrative.

We need them but we don't use them.

In 1992, USS Saratoga hit Muavenet with 2 Sea Sparrows.

I mean compared to a TB2... This bad boy can carry 60 MAM-Ls!