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It sounds like a reinforcement learning type of exercise. Having done a fair bit of that myself for commercial applications, I find it a bit far-fetched. In reinforcement learning, you have an agent which observes environment, has a set of actions it can take, outcomes and rewards associated...

This is very unlikely. It sounds more like an imagined scenario of what might go wrong.

Gotta use real birds to make sure...

You are entitled to your wrong opinion but it was obvious from the beginning that Ogan's principles were closer to Erdogan compared to Kilicdaroglu. The nationalist component in that camp is quite content where they are whereas the nationalist component in Kilicdaroglu's camp almost broke away...

This is exactly what I was thinking they would do. Why risk when you can have both? That said, if you are somebody like Ogan who has as his first priorities the fight against PKK and Feto, Organization of Turkish States, defense industry etc it would be really hard to say you support...

That does look like a Marv. I wonder if that means it's also antiship.

Is this certain or a guess? It would be far beyond my expectations if true. RCS of F-22 is tiny even compared to F-35.

Here is a photo of Altay from TCG Anadolu. I asked the company official from BMC whether they tried Akkor against Javelin in top-down attack mode. He said they did so successfully and Akkor provides 360 degree protection. He added that in the future we will probably see antitanks get new...

We have sent students to Russian universities to study nuclear energy and we have required Russia to work with local contractors as much as possible when building the plant so that the nuclear energy ecosystem in the country gets started up. So you get a lot of experience with nuclear energy...

It's a bit unfair to say Russia is milking us when they single-handedly paid the $22B cost to build the plant. I always thought this might be a bad deal for Russia. The net benefit for us: the subjective value of zero-emission secure energy + value of acquiring the nuclear power technology +...

There is still a great demand for 65 nm and it will continue some time into the future. Household appliances, automobiles, and really all kinds of electronics except computers, smartphones and data centers still use 65 nm or above. Besides, Europe produces only a fraction of their microchip...

I like the name Gökbörü. You could translate it into English as "Sky wolf."

You just cited China as a good example and then said not being able to criticize on Twitter and one party rule are why a country can't develop. These contradictions happen when you repeat talking points from others. The brain drain or markers of economy other than inflation are not as bad as...

They will probably have a set production each year like one half or one quarter of consumption, so in the end it would be stretched for 10 years or so and work like dollar cost averaging. I wouldn't say this for natural gas but it would be best to consume oil relatively quickly, say by the...

We consume about 700k barrels per day, so 1 billion barrels would meet 4 years of our consumption. If the quality is good this is pretty huge. With the current low prices of crude oil, 4 years of oil imports are worth at least $80B.

CHP says they want to return to the F-35 project. They have consistently communicated lackluster support for defense industry and outright hostility to Baykar. I suppose this will be it for MMU and much of the defense industry.

100 billion dollars was the entire energy imports for that year. IIRC, gas is about 25% of that amount and most of the rest is oil. Still $8 billion per year is nothing to scoff at either. That doesn't sound right either. The production of 10 million cubic meters per day would make 3.7 billion...

By the way, this discussion about the aesthetics of the incomplete Atak-2 prototype also makes it easy to see why Ismail Demir is so cautious about the first flight of TF-X. As a culture, we are very hard on our own work and prone to second-guessing. Devrim cars are one poignant example. Imagine...

Rushed for election is a pretty bad explanation for anything in defense industry. I wish people would stop repeating it like it's a piercing insight despite all evidence. There are many things the government could have done to get more credit that it didn't do and they postponed IDEF 2023 to...

I bet ordering a low volume of ATGMs of different types for testing purposes is pretty easy in the Middle Eastern black market. MIT could probably do it as easy as ordering pizza.