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It wouldn't, but not everyone can afford a fleet of purpose built attack helicopters. That's why the Mi-24 was an export success in Africa and why Korea is building LCH and LAH at the same time.

Interesting setup on the Fırtına NG/II. Turns out the Sarp RCWS is retractable to achieve lower silhouette. close up of it. Wonder how much the stabilization is effected.

With how absurd that whole thing was, it might have just been a smoke and mirrors type of deal to dumbfound Leonardo. Hope to read up more on it in the future.

Gökbey is T625. I believe T629 was an T129 sized attack heli with Ukrainian(?) powerpack not bound to the Leonardo license or LHTEC engines. It looks like they let that go for T929. We already have close to 70 T129 in three services, with at least 20+ more on the way in phase 2. And an...

Indeed. There are things an USV simply cannot do. Remember Iranians just collecting US saildrones sailing in international waters, tinkering with them a little and letting them go or not. Try doing that to a 40+ men strong FAC tho and you got a war in your hands.

In a tight space like the Aegean, fast moving manned ships with teeth will always be necessary. There will be things USVs cannot do for a very long time. What do you do when Greece basically apprehends an USV that it claims strayed into Greek territorial waters?

MMU or any other jet surely can be remotely operated in the future, either autonomously or by being slaved to another that has a pilot. But, if you're removing the pilot from the airframe and all that comes with it, the seat, control arrangements, glass cockpit, canopy, oxygen supply and so on...

Most of what's written here is pretty general, something most people would get behind. Some of the stuff that's talked about has been in the works for some time already, some are delayed etc. More transparency is always welcome. Tiny example, we know the configuration numbers(which versions are...

This is not something that can be looked on in a vacuum. World's changing. Nowadays with cheap Chinese electronics and other components being mostly off commercial off the shelf, most countries try to do earn something more than just the platform. They want to be able to service it themselves...

Sale, transportation, assembly, single package :)

Talking with HDP won't bring attacks, that's not how any of it works. If a possible CHP gov talks with PKK behind people's and parliament's backs in say Stockholm, then you will have a point.

Turkish military industrial complex is now at a point where it's now an exporter and makes sweet cash money. Some big projects will be in the drain as economy is in the gutter and with the earthquake, some big name ones will be looked at on the books like the dealings of BMC during Sancak era...

US deploys E-2s and C-2s on its carriers. For all of which you need a CATOBAR carrier.

That's not what Sünnetçi's interview with naval aviation chief suggests.

I never said that it was. But it is not a single incident as less than stellar flight characteristics of the plane was also talked about in the past. Being a pilot with decades of experience, Özpala also knows that Hürkuş, a single engine turboprop trainer being employed aboard a carrier, let...

Fazla paşa's recounting of the events makes one think differently. Nothing to be ashamed of. We learn by doing it wrong and then working on it.

That would be expected. Typhoon is a multinational consortium, even worse, it's a European multinational consortium. Selling point of the Typhoon is not the cost. It would probably be more expensive than an F-35. Even then, Turkey should still entertain the idea of diversifying its fighter needs...

20bil figure came from WSJ article from january. It's not something new. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-to-ask-congress-to-approve-f-16-sale-to-turkey-11673630059 That number It also includes 900 AA missiles and 800 AGMs.

Mayors as advisers(calling cbaşkanı yardımcısı as vice president is wrong imo as they are not directly elected but appointed by the pres) is a small gesture but if it's good enough to keep the table whole, great win all around for them. Now they got 3 candidates they can sell to different...

Arming of the islands goes well before Erdogan. There is ambiguity from the Turkish side regarding the situation on islands, I'll give you that. Matter of the airspace around Aegean is a hard topic. Greece does two things over Aegean which Turkey disagrees. One is claiming that as the mainland...