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They've flown hundreds of sorties in 3 months, striking every single Syrian arsenal, air force base and port they could find. They struck chemical weapon research stations, old army bases with tens of thousands of tons of munitions inside so the new military won't have them. There is no "Syrian...

TAI and Embraer signed a cooperation agreement at LAAD 25. No details I can find on the specifics or the area of cooperation, but there are plenty of things both companies and countries can offer each other.

"On the sensor side, the approach in KAAN can be described as “omnidirectional-multispectral”. For detection in the RF band, BURFIS (Integrated Radar Frequency System); will provide a nearly 360-degree detection and electronic warfare capability for KAAN thanks to its nose, tail and lateral...

I understand your core point, but there simply isn't a verifiable metric for this, at least on open sources. That's what I mean by politicized. For politicians, arms are just another export item, they view it as high tech export and sometimes share "dollar per kilo" values, another meaningless...

Asking it questions that it doesn't know the answers to is still forbidden, as it doesn't bring anything to the table. Using it to show some bullet points for an hour long Turkish interview with a very important name without subtitles is pretty okay as it is a service to the international...

It's wholly politicized and that whole thing frankly doesn't mean anything. "80%" localization is useless when it currently uses an ITAR engine for starters.

Correction. Deal is not for the Adelaides but the M Class ships, which are 2 ex Dutch Karel Doorman Class frigates they got in 2005. It's unclear if any other Turkish subsystem will be a part of the modernization work for the two ships...

There is no deal yet, all we have are claims and smoke rising. Let's see before we celebrate anything, there are no details. All this first started as Tulpar for Poland, now we're hearing Arma.

At some point we will need to have a non political talk about demographics of Iraq and Syria and how many Turkmen there are. I don't think anyone knows the real numbers, but it sure is not 20%. Other than that, Erdogan government have already shown in Iraq that they are more than ready to...

"ADVENT Combat Management System, the deterrent force of the Turkish Navy, has now been exported to Chile, bringing the total number of countries using ADVENT worldwide to nine. " They will probably use it for the modernization of their two Adelaide Class frigates based on OHP.

I so want it to be a success story. They've poured in their hearts into this thing for the last 15+ years. It needs a win.

For visibility's sake, a barebones T925 tech demonstrator will at least still kind of look like the "end product", being a barebones utility helicopter.

I see it as new Hürkuş loading. TAI doesn't have the time and resources available to build it as such, they don't have a viable engine, they probably don't have the necessary back and forth with the army either. On top of that, increasing brain drain, continued lack of funding, claimed sunk cost...

From what we've heard, army still wants a large attack helicopter with the main gun ammo being inside the airframe and they don't like the gun/optic setup of the T129, which AW249 keeps.* And I don't think AW249 can accommodate a 30mm gun like the M230. *= But interestingly on this new image...

Indeed. It would still probably take at least a year with the backlog we have now for all the orders including exports. Much bigger news is that Desan is bidding on the Mangalia Damen shipyard in Romania to rent its production capability. Looks like government is trying to prop up Desan with...

Not at the moment, no.

Or maybe it was. Claim of Romania buying a single Hisar Class ship, maybe one of the already built ones. "The strange case of a single corvette: The mysterious corvette that Romania is buying is from Turkey and it knows the class and specifications. Political and defense industry sources have...

Updated brochures for T925 and T929. 12ton MTOW, capacity to carry 19 troops, probably in its utility configuration. So, still not as big as the AW101, but sits pretty much in the middle. Lacking a ramp, it will basically be a larger S70. T929 still seems very much on the backburner with its...

Both Kaplan MT with the Cockerill 3105 and the Tulpar with the Hitfact 120 are in Brazil for LAAD defense fair. Both are chasing a contract with Brazil. Between the two, Otokar is probably a bit ahead with its Hitfact turret, which the Brazilians have already incurred into service with their new...

TB3 have nearly reached 1000 flighthours. "In addition to the fully successful missile launch test of the IHA-122, Baykar Technologies updated the status of the TB3 development program which has so far accumulated a total of 967 hours and 55 minutes in the air in test flights."...