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Yup. Anadolu will hardly be efficient in sortie generation with fixed wing drones. Which is still okay, as I think it will primarily be a training platform for at least next few years. But one gotta also consider, they will send a drone away for up to 12-24 hours. Drone operations do not require...

A fixed wing traditional aircraft trying to land, fail and trying to take off after a touch and go on a carrier with skijump would be a first in history if they did that. I really wish they won't try that. There really isn't any place on Anadolu for a touch and go.

LHD project started its life as a LPD project, similar to San Antonio and Type 071. It was still called the "LPD Project" for years after Navantia's Athlas 26000 design was selected. In intervening years design got bigger and bigger and talk of F-35Bs being bought to be employed aboard the ship...

KE looks like a jet fighter, but at its current specs it's tiny. KE A carries less than an F-5. It'll be some years before it's anywhere close where we want it to be, and that's okay.

If true and successful, biggest decapitation strike since Soleimani. So that's why they stopped the flights.

Didn't DARPA try something similar to that a few years back? Pilot vs AI in sim, two F-16s in a knifefight. AI won.

Restarted listening to Dan Carlin's Supernova in the East podcast again for my evening walks. Starts the story at around 1933, goes all the way to 1945 and I think beyond. The inhumanity shown is literally off the charts, much of which I was unaware of as a ww2 buff. Had the Japanese got the...

I doubt KAI has any real fear of a Turkish export ban for KF-21, unless it's to I dunno, Syria or something. If they can keep the costs of the local one low, they would surely replace the Turkish ETU links with Korean homegrown ones, why wouldn't they?

It's not clear if it will be the classic LOS version. Also not clear if they will arm it. Also not exactly clear if all this is actually true. So let's just wait.

TF2000 is just starting its life and still very much is on paper and CAD. If we had the budget, 3 more İs would offload much of the weight on older G class vessels and actually help us enlarge the navy together with Hisars. Yavuz and Buraks are goners. We are not going to replace Gs with TF2000s...

K9 had a 6 to 8 RPM, same possibly can be said for T155. They claim 8 to 10 rounds for K9A2 with autoloader and all 48 rounds are in the turret and accessible by the system. Wonder how is it with Fırtına II.

Dedicated platform is a usually soon to be retired old airliner, of which we have multiple. One reason others use airliners is because they can accommodate avionics, testing gear and people to run the tests together. Testing the radar on a drone gives you more air time yes, but also requires...

Air Self Defense Force got RQ-4s, Navy considering Sea Guardian while Army going with TB2s is interesting to say the least. Artillery spotter? :) They may be viewing TB2 as a purely tactical platform like RQ-7 of the old, which at that budget range, makes sense.

I think using MLRS launched 300mms or Bora/Khan at that range is easier, and cheaper. For anything you want to hit 150kms away, you'd want more explosive filler than what a 155mm round can give you. The naval gun option though, that's interesting.

Modded AB412s would be a lovely stopgap until Gökbey can be navalized. Nice.

Boys only want one thing and it's a 250 karat diamond. Like the name, fitting.

Simple, I don't believe a word from anyone until I see an independent ballistics report for the Iyip HQ event as I simply don't buy the alleged version of the event. This country endured 70s, 80s and 90s. We've seen weirder things. Political violence MHP and its cadre inflicted on past AKP and...

Add to it, shots being fired at or near two of the biggest opposition parties' Istanbul HQs for the last week. This is getting dirty fast.

I believe there exists an army base on the Miyako island, hence the land forces chopper. Last reports show coast guard located a rotor blade an oil slick on the water. Possibly all aboard perished. Rip.

UK isn't the problematic one here. Nor Italy or Spain. Germany is.