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5th known and first flight with gears up. Nice, nice.

SSNs or bust :D "President Erdogan: "Britain wants to cooperate for the construction of submarines.""

If it's officially being passed to the congress for their review, it's more than likely a done deal. And here's the link: https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/turkiye-f-16-avionics-upgrade I still don't get who's the recipient for these tho. Which blocks? GCAS requires a terrain...

Congress supposedly approved that sale but I don't think it went through. Couldn't find the DSCA notice either, it used to be up.

Good time to share the story of how CIA used shell companies and third countries to buy titanium ore from Soviets to build the SR-71. https://mentourpilot.com/sr-71-when-cia-used-soviet-titanium-to-spy-on-ussr/

No sale of FGM-148s to Turkey went through, as far i'm aware. If it was received, it should be via 3rd parties.

Needs more video footage but damn.

Want to add another point, this time off my chest as it's semi related. Some do not like "çokbaşlılık" or pluralism when it comes to ruling a state and want a single party, with a single leader to do all the work and be the only voice of the state. This can be a very powerful party in a...

We literally cannot know what a person thinks behind back of their head. Just saying "this guy says this so he's a traitor and all the other people from his party are traitors as well" is child's play. What they say when supporting or rejecting a bill as a group, or what a higher up in the...

Back in 2020, for the first deployment bill, CHP and IYI rejected voting for it, saying: IYI: "Was the Blue Homeland Agreement signed in return for sending troops to Libya? As IYI Party, we cannot be responsible for making our soldiers a clear target of an alliance from Russia to Egypt, and most...

These news regarding new F110s from TEI and structural reinforcing of F-16s makes me think behind closed doors, we agreed with US on some stuff. TEI wouldn't be able to produce new F110s without GE approval/support and more than likely, the newly announced F-16 B40/50 structural reinforcing...

Finding yourself in the middle of a coup you are (possibly) not related to must be a horrible experience all around as a serviceman. No one to trust, no way to act without creating a diplomatic incident, no sure way to know that you won't be shot and killed on spot. Tough stuff.

At least 3 airliners, including a Saudia A330 was damaged in Khartoum airport.

TK flights to Khartoum are cancelled and surprisingly, none were left stranded in the airport. Somehow we are not part of this lol.

Don't know how FoPo will fare post elections but one thing to consider. So far with both Israel and Egypt, their leaders always also met with their Greek counterparts before or after they met with ours. They're keeping Greece in loop, which is just smart for them.

Nice context. Wondering about the Egyptian Migs. Joint exercises maybe? They had joint exercises at Merowe in Nov 2020 and April 2021. Looks like airliners were damaged in Khartoum airport but air traffic is unhampered. As Sudanese military has Chinese medium range HQ-64 and (probably) HQ-16s...

T625 would have its own market, which is very competitive, but a paragraph also needs to be opened for T925's civilian use as well and not just in Turkey. Heavy twin engine helicopters than can carry 20 is a not so small market, especially in offshore rigs, air ambulances, civilian SAR teams...

If those numbers were to translate to president polling one on one basis, KK wins in the first round with 50.3, which I'm not sure if it will happen. EMEP supports KK as well, remember.

It's something..