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Turkey needs those jets today, but won't have 120 Kaans by 2035 either.

I had figured it was a typo tbh but also possible.

Disagree on tweet. First, first Özgürs are already now in active use with units. Second, Daggers are based in Konya, so that's her home base. At the background, Qatari Eurofighters are already deployed for AE25.

France could really be considered the most unserious country in the western hemisphere.

You're buying me that patch by Erkmen if Pakistani JF-17s with recent killmarks show up in Konya 2 days later :P

That leaves out UAE, Pakistan and Oman. I really doubt Pakistan is not an active participant so their reporting must be wrong. or outdated. They don't have tankers, as far as I see, they usually join the regional exercises, maybe in the future.

Here we have the participants for Anatolian Eagle 25. 10 regional countries, good start. It'll be an F-16 and Eurofighter fest with hopefully Hungarian Gripens? https://www.instagram.com/p/DLGLpSSAa3J/?hl=en

First link is a pretty nice retelling of the events I mentioned. Horrible program if your idea is to arm your armed forces. It's pretty good if you plan to get rich though. We do know that Nurol can build and deliver, much much more quicker, see Estonia.

Knowing Hungarians, that factory in Hungary probably fumbled hard and unhappy with results, government updated the agreement to produce the vehicles in Turkey. This was signed years ago, should have been completed by now.

Multiple Ejder 6x6s at Kayseri 2. ABFM, including those with Georgian camo. We haven't saw any Georgian Ejders in years. I wonder if they are being serviced here or were returned and being refurbished to be sold to other countries. One on the left both have the Georgian camo and the more recent...

Italian armed forces chief visits Turkey. After Italy also started courting Haftar following our footsteps, potential issues between the two are being ironed out. Now only Israel and Greece/EU remains; two huge ones. But nice to see cooperation going forward in Africa, EastMed, Balkans.

It's all guesswork. Word sensitive could mean those things, but it could also mean one of the three owners of the program saying "no".

Re Turkish purchase of Eurofighters: "There are still some hurdles to be jumped over" for Turkey. One of them is "quite sensitive". Make of that what you will"

Having supply chain issues now doesn't mean that we won't also have them later on. We also don't know what supply chain issues apart from the titanium parts. If we are still unable to get the parts and equipment necessary from Russia for example, issues continue. Supply is lacking for all over...

Obviously typo by the editor.

Too American/Israeli and too Russian in that order. Algeria maybe in the far future.

“Our goal is to finish the first prototype in the first quarter of next year and to start flight tests,” says TAI chief executive Mehmet Demiroglu. That aircraft will be followed by a second prototype due to get airborne in mid-2026, and then a third following early in 2027. “We have promised a...

So it was a Hermes and not just 129s. Horrible look for Iran. What are those quad launchers, for drones or flares?

We of course don't have the details and it's conjecture, but I do think OGM's request for a more conventional design did lead to this back doorless design, OGM being the launch customer. And DzKK requests were shafted as a result. To restart the clock, Kotil had mentioned in 2022 that first...

New T925 scale model from Paris Air Show.