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Agreed, but the real life construction, as in design mostly leaving the desk and lab test phase to real world starting is something we have been waiting for nearly 2 decades now. Let us have our fun 🤪

Well, here we go! Tomorrow the first steel cutting ceremony for TF-2000 will be held at Istanbul Shipyard Command. TCG Savarona will be (officially) delivered at the same ceremony. --------- False Alarm, ceremony was postponed to next week due to Erdogan's scheduling conflicts...

Apart from keeping RIM-116; I think jury is still out on which CIWS system is more viable: Gun or missile based. Americans are going with RAMs and SeaRAMs on their new ships for example. Navy is going for missiles in front, gun at the back on TF-2000. They must have more data then we do.

If the RIM-116 sale that passed DSCA few weeks ago happens, don't expect the RAM to be changed on Ada Class ships. It would simply lower the costs to keep it.

And here's the first flight of Kızılelma PT-3, finally! As expected, no AB action for the first flight, pretty regular.

We don't. Amount we spend is peanuts compared to bigger players. As such, we need to choose our battles. Developing a PT-6 alternative to build 100-300 units at most with no potential civilian market sales(PT6 is the most built turbine engine in existence and is very cheap compared to others) is...

For starters, it has a Chinese radar. I would very much like our AAMs to be as far as possible from any Chinese radars. We know however that Roketsan and GIDS are working together on new AAMs. Those could be deployed on Azerbaijani JF-17s as well. Until then, Chinese sticks on JF-17, PL-10 and...

This was the option that made the most sense for Azerbaijani needs. Has a good support structure, almost cheap to operate, no ITAR restrictions, ensures greater cooperation with Pakistan, Turkey and China. Good call. And if Azerbaijani Air Force later decides to go for Kaan, they will have been...

Expect it to be tested alongside an F110 in a prototype Kaan instead. Noone's going to enlarge KE or create an unmanned Kaan just for engine tests.

More than likely Barbaros would be given to navy and would require a different battery and training. Not that clear cut, say compared to Kara Atmaca for land targets. Don't know how advantageous Kara Atmaca be for Azerbaijan's mountainous terrain, but I'm sure it's looked at as well.

Because they decided to not allocate additional space for ASM launchers on TF-2000. Old design did have them, newer one doesn't.

That would be a lovely surprise indeed!

None of this is guaranteed. When a possible sale of EFs were first touted, at the time there was continuous back and forth between UK and TR and UK was interested in offloading their old EF T1s. But from then on, Turkish officials always mentioned new aircraft, not old ones. This 5.6 billion$...

I don't think the FFBNW setup of Hisars(with SAMs, ASMs) is that different than what the Hisars we will mostly operate will carry to be honest. We are already building 8 Istifs. I don't think the navy is interested in a slower Istif with worse radar to make up numbers. Hisars will still mostly...

Unnamed sources of Bloomberg strikes again. "Turkey is pushing for a deal with an estimated value of about €5 billion ($5.6 billion) to buy at least 20 Eurofighter warplanes with an option to double the amount, the people said, asking not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the...

New brochure for Barbaros Coastal Defence System. Single battery consists of a C2 vehicle, TEL(s) and loading vehicles. C2 vehicle can optionally fitted with a coastal search radar. I'm pretty sure the graphic in the top right is supposed to be a BMC Tuğra 8x8 TEL. Hoping to see it soon so...

Maybe first Hisars being soldto Indonesia is a possibility.

I'm fairly certain that with the expected announcement soon of the construction start in the Istanbul navy shipyard, they will tout the 4 number as they did with Istif at the time. But also fairly certain that if the economy allows it, number navy wants is 8. Not 7, but 8. It will be 4+4. To...

They can't return at their own request. Emiratis paid millions to lobby for F-35 access and was told no. Then they updated their outlook and got closer to China and increased cooperation with Korea(and again with Turkey). It's a country that straddled the lines much better than we were able to...

That's definitely Ahtapot. I don't see where else would they put it though.