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"The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on May 14 at the Feindef defense exhibition in Madrid. Under the arrangement, Airbus will lead—as national industry coordinator—a team of Spanish companies to adapt the platform to meet the Spanish Air Force’s Advanced Jet Trainer...

If we are going for semantics, we also cannot call it an "aew", as all the early warning calculations will be made on the ground. "AWACS" is the trademarked term Boeing gives to E-3. We shouldn't think of the "AEW" here as only the drone with a radar, it's just a simple part of the whole...

Brits to study Reaper as a seaborne AWACS.

We didn't.

There is no class system for this. In the modern sense, it would mean at least an MRBM with a MIRV capable warhead design. But, as Turkey does not have a nuclear program, it's basically a waste of everyone's time to argue about all this for now.

For a country with near infinite money and tiny manpower pool, any kind of small fighter is meaningless. Kaan sure, Hürjet LCA, no way.

Qatar operates pretty new Hawks and M346s. Hawks were delivered only few years ago and are based in UK in another joint RAF/Qatar squadron, while the Masters are based in Italy within IFTS. It's a small country with a small air force, they offload a big part of their training to others. They...

Failed products don't get ever growing orders. It's now operated by 3 navies, ordered by Japan and will probably also be ordered by Singapore and by Spain in the future as well. Only non American aligned navies with a carrier not using it will likely be France and Turkey. It is a great platform...

What? UK MoD will buy J-35 before they spend billions and years on converting the carriers to CATOBAR. That's not happening.

We had the fortune of having a young population with a very nice population pyramid back then. We have managed to become the first country in the history to lose our population increase while not getting richer. This is a first and it's wholly untreaded.

This definitely wasn't in my bingo card. But nice to see wheels turning. https://www.dsca.mil/Congressional-Notification-Archive/Article/4186475/trkiye-aim-9x-sidewinder-block-ii-missiles...

As always, I like these maps of yours, but they are simply wrong. Qatar didn't order Hürjet, neither did Spain, yet. Total order count for Hürjet still sits at 16 for HvKK.

Spanish industry, led by Airbus, and Turkish Aerospace have signed a memorandum of understanding to identify and develop potential areas of collaboration on the ‘Advanced jet trainer aircraft, Integrated Training System - Combat (ITS-C)’ programme, which aims to replace the F-5M trainer aircraft...

Doubt it will be a issue for 8 out of 10 contracts. T129 was a contender against AH-1Z in both Philippines and Nigeria, beat AH-1Z in Philippines, got an equal contract against it in Nigeria. They won't make a fuss against a NATO ally like Spain. T-50 is a proven, mature platform with decades...

I'm pretty sure aside from Eurofying Hürjet, this will also help us in developing the aircraft furthermore for our use. 16 Spanish companies is the given number. It's a near complete coupling of Spanish aerodefence sector to Hürjet. But no order from the Spanish MoD just yet. - Beautiful.

Not at all, that's not how it works at all. You can't fast track a human rated engine. We see what we are going through with TS1400. -- Here it comes, our little baby is going international.

Probably because it's for Altuğ. What a waste.

Very interesting, FNSS also signed a MoU with Cockerill and 2 Spanish companies, TSD and Oesia to present a design for the same program.

Make that 15. To add, there's nothing to suggest yet that Baykar's 20k frankenstein will be a human rated engine.

That's a nice elephant walk.