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Turns out we couldn't actually do that as well, because there were no domestic solutions at the time.

İbrahim Sünnetçi says BMC will enter the new tracked IFV program's 105mm gun section with a different foreign turret than Kaplan and Tulpar. Leonardo maybe?

Do you mean, more important than ever? Tanks are still inherently important for a combined arms army. You literally cannot march on without them. They are the tip of the spear. This is what we're seeing in Ukraine.

The New Altay moniker kinda fits, as the poor thing just got near obsolete in the last 10 years from the last prototype. FCS is new.

2 prototypes will be delivered to KKK for testing on April 23 for some very extensive tests. Tests will continue until end of 2024 and first production Altays will be rolling off the line in 2025. I think this might be the last 18 months stretch boys... Judging by the 5/3 KKK/export production...

T625 is not a platform comparable to Mi-8 tho. Gendarme currently has 30 S70s, will get 30 T70s. It also has about 20 Mi-17s, and about dozen Hueys if they're still active. T625 size and performance wise can only replace the Hueys. 100 T625s more than doubles the size of the gendarme air arm...

I don't think we can be sure of this. We don't usually announce demonstrators. When it's showcased to the public, it's either a mockup or a prototype of the actual product. The scaled version that was talked about could be the demonstrator. Maybe as it was said that demonstrator already flew...

750 number would be 3-5 batches in the course of at least 20-30 years. On one hand, we have platforms we need to replace, on the other, we might not need a one on one replacement for them and UGVs might play a bigger role in procurement 2030 onwards.

How the up to $200million deal with the Korean maker fits into that? First production Altays will come with Korean transmission, no?

They should be in a hurry. You can't refuel an F-16 (or MMU for that matter judging from past images) without a boom and we're not making a passenger jet sized drone to carry that boom anytime soon.

Flight characteristics wise, looks like a TB2. Too slow.

Any updates on this? On hiatus or just fell through? It has been 2 years. KC-135s were already starting their mod package in 2020 which is mostly(fully?) completed. But still no info on the replacement.

You are forgetting the best of them, Okhotnik...

Now that we've seen it in real life, anybody want to guess what is what on top of the fuselage? What does the darker shade black rectangle do? In the model photo, it was circular. What do we really know about Anka-3? Yes, it's a flying wing UCAV, specs we have is that it weighs 7 tons(MTOW?)...

These last 24 hours just keep on giving. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

LET'S GOOOO

Seeing how much they pay for Reapers and 20 year old Israeli designs, what they actually need is Aksungur.

And people ask why Baykar is better at PR. For one, Baykar would never allow leaks or allowed leaks to be published. I'd take seeing the first photo tomorrow at March 18 with more than 360p quality over this. First time our most ambitious project touches the tarmac and these are the 2 photos we...

One could say whole frame is temporary until it's not tbh. CDR not yet finalized, right?

no lie i kinda like the distinctive beak. call it the mediterranean eagle!