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  1. TheInsider

    Defence Q&A how long does it take for a nation with a nuclear power plant to get nukes?

    Turkiye has the capability to mine uranium, turn it into the yellow cake, and enrich it via centrifuges and Turkiye can manufacture those centrifuges nationally in extremely high numbers without any need for foreign help. In fact, it was Turkiye that helped Pakistan with its own centrifuges...
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    TR Air Defence Programs

    F-35 is a deal-breaker. According to Singapore MoD F-35 can only be operated for 3 months without getting supplies from the US. All of the modernized AAA gun batteries will get a single Hisar-A+ truck-based launcher. Some amount of autonomous Hisar-A+ systems(the picture above) will be...
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    TR Economy & Updates

    Lol, that is why I asked the population. Even small cities like Elazığ have a big population. You will always find enough people that can afford Starbuck even though we face the risk of Venezuela-level poverty.
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    The best TEI can do is to match Safran. Big 3 is untouchable.
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    TR Casual Discussion TOGG - Türkiye's Automotive Joint Venture Group

    TOGG factory construction and installation of serial production lines are nearly completed. TOGG project is going on somewhat ahead of schedule. Tests and trials of machinery are going on. Sample production will start soon. Serial production will start in Q4 2022. The first model of the TOGG...
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    There are big 3; GE, P&W, RR Then comes French Safran and Japanese IHI Rest it similar. TEI slowly climbs up the ladder with its own designs. There is no way to catch the top 3 unless you jump the train of a paradigm-changing technology like composite turbine blades early on. The US companies...
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    TR Economy & Updates

    Dude, do you know the population of Elazığ? Let's assume that %10 of that population is considered rich, %30 middle income, and %60 poor. This is enough to fill Starbucks in Elazığ many times. Do you think investors open Starbuck branches without doing market research?
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    Reportedly PKK dug a big tunnel from the Sinjar area of Iraq to the Hol town of Syria to secure logistics passing between Iraq and Syria.
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    What you wrote above is completely true but we are not talking about the past. If we start talking about the past this will become an infinite maze. What is done is done we can't change the reality.
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    It doesn't happen that way. The US will also threaten to put on sanctions, heat the Sea of Islands and East Med. and you can be %100 sure that PKK/YPG will escalate the situation on the complete Turkish border. So there will be multiple fronts; 1) East of Euphrates front with the USA+YPG. USA...
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    Russia asks for free passage from the straits and Turkish airspace in return for a green light for Turkish military operation.
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    No final decision as of now. It is in the hands of Erdogan and he is known to act on a hunch so expect anything.
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    TR Politics

    Elections will be held somewhere between early November 2020 to late march 2023.
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    Unfortunately, it looks like a possible Turkish op is put on ice. Assad, Iran, and YPG forms a loose alliance against a possible Turkish military op and the USA and Russia agreed to support this. Russia changed the tune after the support of the USA. Russia offered to station the regime and Shia...
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    TR UAV/UCAV Programs | Anka - series | Kızılelma | TB - series

    I don't know where I should post this. I heard that the government/SSB/TAF will disclose around 100 small and big classified defense projects in the following months. 2023 will definitely be interesting. My source said a few of them are paradigm-changing projects. Currently, SSB manages over 750...
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    TR Oil & Gas Exploration Update & Discussion

    A decision is taken to re-drill the areas where foreign companies drilled in the past. There are 2 reasons for this decision. 1) Suspicions about some of the companies. 2) Drilling the potential spots according to TPAO geological model.
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    Analysis Air-Launched Tactical Decoy Targets and TAI Supersonic UAV Project

    Turkish ramjet engines can sustain very high supersonic speeds like 4+ Mach. This means a similar travel time to target at ISO range compared to solid rocket engines. Still, it will probably offer at least double the range and magnitudes more kinematic capability at terminal engagement.
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    Live Conflict Military Operations Syria

    A big Turkish military convoy entered Syria from the Öncüpınar crossing.
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    TR Altay Main Battle Tank & Related Programs

    On the contrary, it is surprisingly easy.
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    TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

    He wouldn't have rejected in the first place. Kılıçdaroğlu would have probably retreated from Syria and Libya, accepted YPG as a non-state actor, and asked Mediterranean and Sea of Islands issues to be put on ice which IMHO the US would have accepted and pressured Greeks not to bring those...

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