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"Turkey can hope to soon receive modern Eurofighter fighter jets for its air force. Defense circles and senior officials from Germany expressed the expectation that the export deal will soon materialize. Apparently, the German government intends to abandon its resistance. The news is likely to...

Looks almost AI, uncanny. Must be quite the spectacle for watchers. I think it's PT-2 but that gray tone could also be from the dust on it and maybe it's PT-1? Regardless, nothing to cry about, it's a prototype for a reason. Lots of lessons to be learned from the mishap for the future.

I don't like speculation, we have no idea what happened. Looks like a controlled landing without power, maybe engine gave out. We'll have some idea of what to expect by watching future flight testing. Official explanations will be useless as usual.

3 years later and they still don't know the most basic tenets of political system of our largest defence partner, or he simply don't understand it and his mind can't comprehend it. It's not up to Trump whether Turkey gets F-35s or not.

Looks like the Anka-3 PT-2 crash landed during Anatolian Eagle 25. Looks mostly intact.

%15 by your figure. You are talking about leaving 15% of potential losses to die for nothing.

Erdogan to Seek Support From Merz for Eurofighter Sale to Turkey "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to seek support from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the sale of Eurofighter jets to Turkey at talks on the sidelines of the NATO summit."...

Pilots are more important than the 150 million aircraft, you are speaking literal nonsense.

At least 3 per SEAD squadron in a very very basic counting of 20 aircraft. Would be surprised if more than 20 EDPODs are ever built unless exported. Tübitak can handle it over few years.

He mentioned many things. “We [have] already started working on” the new TF35000 turbofan engine, Mehmet Demiroğlu, general manager at TAI, told Breaking Defense at Le Bourget, adding that work is being done jointly by Tusas Engine Industries (TEI) and TRMotor. As part of the system’s...

Regardless I bet 151st guys will love it, this was a capability they needed for decades.

I think you may be right.

EDPOD is now in service.

Can't know, but safe to say all those facilities are now unusable whether they are destroyed or not. There are claims that some equipment and fuel was removed before strikes. I don't think this changes much. Iran can no longer hide them underground and they are in the open, which will push them...

Iran having nukes was always a deal breaker for US. Why would they be okay with it, with or without Israel?

Which shouldn't even be taken as a datapoint honestly. I like merah putih, it's going slowly and it's a bit of a hodgepodge but it'll turn out nicely once ready.

They are the same program, second is an addon on the first. It's not 40+81, but 40+41 totaling 81. And afaik the second batch didn't receive it.

This program started in 2020, all we have to show for are 40 Leopard 2T1s with roketsan armor packages, that's it. They are as good as our Altay because neither exist yet!

Don't think buildings, think the sensitive stuff inside the buildings and the shockwave the 500kilo warhead creates. It's still small yes, but it's something.