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Russian F35 would be a sight to behold. Russia - US alliance against china, we are living in video game chaos world at this point. Is this the end of civilization I wonder?

Ok but what if next article is "US refuses to supply parts to Norway's F35 fleet"? Would be funny if european F35 user nations suddenly bought rafales or eurofighter

Maybe because F16 are all owned by military, but akinci prototypes are privately owned. Baykar is advertising products jointly with aselsan, why would army advertise its foreign bought inventory?

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Jets like F16 will be always useful, lower cost, simpler to maintain and higher operational availability. Which countries along our southern / eastern border are likely to get capabilities that will threaten our f16s in next 20 years? And if they do how long will they last before our stealth...

GCAP partners like Italy and UK are partners in F35 program, and UK especially was significantly involved and they operate it. So they definitely have experience towards it. UK is the only Tier 1 partner with significant input to stealth and avionics.

He is one of the few reliable people around.

Maybe there is room for more flat hierarchies at least within certain divisions to better manage newer generations? Or there may be room for more automatization

Could they be just to counter balance the weight from heavier engine by adding some lift

Extra air inlet on the bottom too, pretty large one

Think it as a flying NASAMS, it can surely intercept basic drones and cruise missiles, as we are seeing the importance of that in ukraine. That way fighters and other systems can focus on different threats. A flying system is especially more effective against low flying targets.

V in VLS stands for vertical, otherwise it's just a launcher, isn't it

It's unlikely to be that different, and therr are probably many subsystems we can improve.

At the end of the day, Turkish includes many words from Persian, Arabic and French, and Persian words are some of the nicer ones admittedly, more deeply embedded in our culture and literature. Some very basic root words also have common origin between Turkish and Persian ( aş , eş ) etc

Didnt they already sanction us on these

If I had to guess an emp would destroy that facility instead

We still haven't signed the F16 deal which is weird honestly. But yeah we do need both, we have the lowest number of inventory in decades

A new T4 is less than 30? In what world

I think T1's already were decided to be scrapped, the way I understood is the 2nd hand EF we are getting wouldn't be those but newer ones

I'm all for second hand if it means they will enter inventory next year, that would be very fast, and we can hopefully modernize them to tranche 4.