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Might be a bug, 44kts is too slow.

We've seen over the last 30 years that American way doesn't work with failure after failure.

Yup. Nothing has changed, though Greeks tried so hard and spent presumably millions to enact a change on actual policy. This doesn't mean anything on the ground, but is a confirmation of the failure of the Greek diplomacy in regards to territorial waters, airspace and EEZ in the region. They did...

Midlas: "In the future, work is also underway on land-based versions for base and port protection." https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/savunma-sanayisi/turk-donanmasi-milli-hava-savunma-yetenegi-icin-gun-sayiyor/3156682

From MSB(MoD) 2023 annual report: "Within the scope of the MİLDEN Project, which will be carried out at Gölcük Shipyard Command, the construction of the Test Block is planned to start in 2024, and construction activities are planned to start in 2025."...

Hopkins seem to agree with my thinking. Something will happen, not sure what tho.

I think we should read this in more strategic terms than tactical. Kalın and Fidan's visit to US to meet with Blinken this week, Iraqi movements up north, Barzani's visit to ADF 2024 etc must be linked.

"We continue our fight against terrorism with determination, regardless of the obstacles inside and outside our borders. We will resolve the issue regarding our borders with Iraq this summer." Hmm. New, big scale op in preparations looks like...

Wow, I think this is the first time we got confirmation of different length Midlas models. Turkish navy only operates tactical length Mk41s. And I'd think only larger Siper versions and Gezgin will use strike length, so it will be basically TF-2000 specific for now. Tactical and Strike...

"NEW: Turkish President calls Greek Prime Minister to wish him happy birthday. Just a week after Mitsotakis called Erdoğan to wish him a happy birthday. Seems like the Friendship Declaration signed in December is functioning." Same guy Erdogan said he didn't exist for him anymore and would...

RAM and SeaRAM can be reloaded while underway. They have a simple winch and pulley system. Being a CIWS, it's a necessary capability. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/achnkFYLECc -- New Levent mockup has double the front fins over the one shown in Idef last year and in a 2022 presentation btw...

Hürjet development program cost is $1+ billion. "-With a budget of more than $1 billion, this project is Turkey's first national manned supersonic jet aircraft. Development and maturation work continues unabated. TAI Deputy General Manager Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Öztürk"

No project cost was made public. From a quick skim, most I could find was a 800 million dollar figure for all the projects signed by Turkish companies in Dimdex 2018, which also include 200+ NMS from Nurol, 85 Kirpi and Amazon from BMC, 6 TB2s from Baykar, 9 boats up to 50 meters from Ares and 8...

Al Doha Class cadet training/OPV ships are not something huge or very special, but I think they would be a simple and not so expensive design as a training ship for the navy. Anadolu already built 2 of them back to back and very fast. Put a 30mm gun on the bow, work it as an OPV when needed...

I have a question on this. How does Kargu's warhead work? I always imagined it being like Claymore mine, where majority of the blast is pointed forward. How do we know this was a failed strike?

And the first official confirmation that T625 Gökbey will be navalized in the future. T625 was always the perfect choice to replace SGM's 14 AB-412s. They want both T625s and T925s. Once it can finally be delivered, T625 already have onlookers from coast guard, possibly police and of course...

I remember the detractors... "We don't need no flying test bed, we have Akıncı"...