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Because it's Al Qaeda lite near our border whose leader and organization stayed alive until now because unlike their brethren they forewent their global jihad initiatives and adopted a more inward looking stance. It's still a bed of fundamentalism that will fester with millions of people living...

"On the other hand, the Turkish Air Force will also gain ramjet-propelled METEOR air-to-air missile capability with the Eurofighter Typhoon Aircraft. Good news is expected to come in a few days regarding the Eurofighter Typoon procurement. If the source code supply required for the integration...

"The first firing tests of the ramjet-propelled long-range air-to-air missile GÖKHAN, which is under development under the Prime Contractor TÜBİTAK SAGE, are expected to be carried out in 2025. However, in order to see the real performance of GÖKHAN, the MURAD AESA Nose Radar with long detection...

If I may, I think everyone would agree with this. Problem with shortening that timeframe is down to very fast and powerful actuators needing to be heavy to handle that kind of load, and this all being on an aircraft going 500kmh, hence it needing to be as light as possible. Same with the door...

It could be, and by all means we should have been the country that came up with this, with tens of shipyards and design bureaus we have.

Could be a scoop. M5 is made by sector veterans, though they are not above some falsification like any other. Let's see.

Off topic posts removed. - "Ministry of National Defense sources said the following about the Eurofighter and F-16 procurement: Regarding the procurement of F-16s, a contract was signed in recent months, a timetable has been set and the process is proceeding as planned. As for the...

"Syrian regime sources: A joint military operation will be carried out with Kurdish forces to liberate the entire occupied north of Syria."

Air Force already had a plan 6-7 years ago for a larger aircraft, Genel Maksat Uçağı(GMU) program to acquire 6 CN-295 and C-27J were both supposed to be participants but program was cancelled I believe. I always liked the CN-235. We got them to basically replace DC-3s. We have nearly 50 in...

With the mentioned C-130J purchase and extra A400 order, I don't think air force would be interested in a similar sized aircraft. We absolutely will need a CN-235 replacement in the next decade however.

I hadn't seen that upgunned design before. I think keeping the aft with the depth charges and the ASW rockets keeps that side tidy. I agree that Levent or a system like that would be a tad heavy and would require extensive modification to the ship, like changing locations. Wish they had gone...

This is how US led security order collapses. I don't think they can afford to anchor tens to hundreds of thousands of troops in Iran in 2025.

An NGO claims it might be WP and not tear gas. Using WP near the vicinity of UN troops certainly would make this a new thing.

Tuzlas are our most specialized littoral ASW ships. While they don't have much space left for anything else, I do think they need a point defence AD for Aegean. They are however also on the cheaper end and a Levent system may be 60-70% of the cost of the ship. @Anmdt , could this section be...

Holy jeebus they did it.

I think you have a point, edited.

Looks like a new UUV will be presented by STM at SAHA Expo next week.

Of course. Nothing wrong with that. But there is a clear conflict of interest there with the government and Baykar, and it needs to be investigated. Did government officials specifically push TB2s over other Turkish products in those talks? We don't know.

Terms and conditions rarely apply to real world use. We were also supposed to not use our Leo2s in Cyprus and "Southeast" but we did. F-16 sale could only happen if Turkey accepted the NDAA but it was reversed and removed from the bill etc. What are they gonna do, ask for the platforms back...

You don't have the data to back this claim I think. Not necessarily, no. The claim from some that Turkish credit lines and/or military aid dollars were used to channel orders to Baykar over other companies should be investigated in time.