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I absolutely do not think army or navy would get an AFV with a foreign turret after all this. This is either for an ongoing tender or it will be marketed in the future. It does look pretty awesome tho.

Welp, here it is. Looks to me like it's the 120mm gun, can't be certain tho. If it is, this would be the first Turkish IFV with a 120mm gun.

Leonardo Hitfact MK2 that can carry a 105mm or a 120mm gun to be added to Tulpar. Interesting pick that is not a Cockerill for once.

At that point F-35 will have already killed the bird in question tho.

It's just an updated Mk 29 that used to fire regular Sea Sparrows. https://defencehub.live/threads/naval-programs.335/page-259#post-286058

I'm guessing for Gür Class? Ideas?

What an amazing footage. Spectacular drone work. Non existent Russian CIWS strikes again. No wonder Aselsan's naval RCWS sell like hot cakes lately.

NEW: Turkish Defence Ministry sources' reaction to these statement by Biden Admin on F35 issue: - There is no change in the stance of both countries right now - At this stage, the statements made by the USA should be considered a declaration of good faith.

Full unnamed quote: "Our Eurofighter demand continues" In response to a question on whether Turkey's demand for the Eurofighter continues, ministry sources said, "Our demand continues. The positive approach of Germany, one of the consortium countries, is expected. Discussions and studies are...

It used to be Italy 15 years ago. Probably would be UK now. As far as we know, Turkey hasn't yet officially requested to by EF2000, so there's no actual blockage, just that Germany was being "unhelpful".

It was announced as a Tajik and a Russian national.

For this exact reason, delays with GTU-0 are more than normal, even more so than the actual prototypes, and giving it a set date of first flight was always wrong. - Playing the devil's advocate, if we had few F-35s flying around nowadays, we probably wouldn't do this. As we could just use the...

Rekindling old flames? :)

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Which do come very handy but you're not replacing 20k MTOW F-16's that go Mach 1.6 with 700kilo TB2s that go 150kts. Even for ground ops, when we want to deal some real damage, it's F-16s with HGK-83s in double rails, not Akıncıs. What's the current Akıncı number anyway, I don't remember a...

This is the least fighters we had since the second world war. F-4s are also goners. HvKK shrinked half to its size since 1990.

It certainly is not but it is perfect for the kind of small and short conflict Turkey may be pulled into against Greece. A long seeing, not being seen AMRAAM machine. We can't afford to lose air superiority against a country like Greece.

Yup. But there's some issues here as well. Mainly, highly unrealistic project schedules with even with many subparts still depending on US and US allies.

Yup. Funny thing is, Turkey even with its current economy can handle Viper, Özgür, F-35, EF2000 and Kaan together. And if the goal is to come to top, and survive the coming decades, we probably will need to. Both the firepower, and the relationships these purchases create.