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That was expected. That tender was tailor made for Hanwha re specs, financing and delivery timeframes. Well hopefully, but first Canadian F-35 delivery is for 2026 anyway and their Hawks are pretty modern for now so they'll probably opt to wait. If they can't get T-7s, there would be a heated...

As they opted for F-35, they'll more than likely just get T-7s. But, every ambassador deserves a TAI model on their desk :)

If Idlib and surrounding areas was a country, it would be classed as a lawless failed state by now, almost like a 80s Liberia. What we are doing is too small and is not doing anything to alleviate the big problems. No future deals on the horizon as well. With no jobs and economy to speak of in...

9871 was delivered to Turkey in 2019 :( Sitting there, no external modifications visible. Hope HavaSOJ get some steam soon.

Gagauz make up 1% of Transnistria. Though I agree that we have to hold on to Gagauzia as hard as we can and do our best to be a bridge between Moldovans and them, rather than Russians. Gagauz don't trust Moldovans so they would want a bigger partner they can rely on while Moldovans rely on...

Fukushima, Fukushima related new safety improvements making prices higher, not being able to come to a financing agreement G2G, Turkish economy. Per reports, project cost of 15+ billion had grown to 45+ billion in few years. Atmea was also a joint French Japanese program, don't know if there was...

How many fighters do they have left after the splinters, HTS beating them and infighting of the last few years?

Wish we had some kind of defence media that could ask this question. Who's Unirobotics and why are they being propped up to replace Stamp and Stop directly by SSB and the navy. Hisar Class ships are still at least 100 million apiece, Using a new, untested non stabilized gun, while we already...

This will have security complications for us as well.

Rosatom: We will build the second nuclear power plant in Turkey "President Erdogan made it clear that there was a political decision to transfer another field to us. Now we are working on the details. Most likely, the new construction site will be named Sinop." Directly says "transfer". Sinop...

I think Atmaca launchers are just not shown on the new images. No way navy goes for vertical launched ASM and bring about all that new development cost and lose VLS space.

Since everyone is talking about it: I'm fine with dealing with Saudis and creating a partnership on Kaan if need be. Can't say the same on UAE tho. Unlike Saudi, UAE spent billions on working against us in multiple theaters, in Libya, Syria, East Med, Sudan and Somalia and again unlike Saudi...

I've had similar thoughts on this for some time, and never knew there was such a concept. Sad that there's only one easily found Turkish work one can read up on it, and it is of course from Evrim Ağacı, northstar of the Turkish internet...

I think this is much bigger news. That's not good.

Please stop trying to sew American alt right politics into Turkish politics, no such thing exists here. "Attacking parenthood and traditional marriage" is literally a key American alt right talking point. Guess fucking what, we have none of that in Turkish politics and our population growth is...

Old 27000 ton MTOW figure is from before 2019 when Kaan was to use 2x 20000lbs engines. We don't have a set projected figure for the 35k engined Kaan.

I mean, I would fervently oppose Turkey buying JF-17s. It's an aircraft Pakistan wanted to replace F-7s and Mirage 3s with. Its other customers are Nigeria and Myanmar. It was always designed to be the low in a hi-lo mix. And Pakistanis clearly class it below F-16s and J-10Cs. But if it fits...

well... I wouldn't follow American aircraft developments from the Russians.. JF-17 is a low cost fighter for the 21st century with some real improvements. Threat to Azerbaijan comes from Armenian and Iranian Sukhois. JF-17 B3 can deal with those. B3 includes an AESA radar, HMDS, IRST and few...

Well this has been talked so much over the years so until we see an agreement or even planes delivered(remembering the case of M346s for Azerbaijan) it's better to not get too hyped just yet.

Well we haven't seen the actual text, but I doubt it would give coordinates instead of just saying "Somali territorial waters". Both Somalia and Turkey recognizes "Somaliland" as part of Somalia. So, technically yes. We'll wait and see what it actually means and what are Turkey's plans about...