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- you stating the obvious does not create a valid fallback option. Russia or China would not sell their engines. they're not obliged to supply a NATO member just because we're desperate for it. - engines are not simple plug and play devices. the aircraft is designed and woven around an engine...

I legit fear that they won't even give us the damn engines and you're saying we'd be better off buying 80 F35s instead of 40.

President Erdoğan to discuss F-35 purchase with Trump President Erdoğan will meet with Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit. According to Bloomberg, Turkey wants to purchase a total of 40 F-35 and 40 F-16 fighter jets. An assurance proposal regarding the S-400 system will be offered. A...

surreal https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114738521695017472

very much real

if there was a dedicated effort, they would have mentioned it specifically, not be assumed under blanket statements. it could be, well it should be, on the roadmap but, to me, expressions like "fully domestic" are geared more towards public consumption. if someday they announced "this company...

he believed in the supremacy of baklava.

how many would we need?

A few bombs does nothing against a mithril vest, woven by the finest craftsmans of Khazad-Dûm!

Harun Reşit Aydın, on EF acquisition: - Production is demanded, but the Germans are already giving "approval" to keep the production line running. (I think it’s totally unnecessary) - Full access is requested, there’s partial progress, but full access is a pipe dream. - They are completely...

integration on KAAN means it will be tested alongside F110. btw, he says integration, not first flight. the latter could be in the same year or later depending on its readiness.

From TAI CEO: "We [have] already started working on” the new TF35000 turbofan engine, Mehmet Demiroğlu, general manager at TAI, told Breaking Defense at Le Bourget, adding that work is being done jointly by Tusas Engine Industries (TEI) and TRMotor. As part of the system’s preliminary design...

They don't even want to share the work. "At the airshow, Dassault CEO Eric Trappier said Dassault and France should be leading the project. In a Bloomberg interview, he suggested an arrangement focused on sharing work among partners would lead to a technologically inferior solution."...

do you know what "completely decoupled the Turkish economy from the West" means or you're just throwing words around with no substance behind? how can you conflate having no debt to imf with decoupling the economy from the west?

What metrics do you use to make this claim? Here's a quote from the minister of trade "Avrupa Birliği üye ülkelerine (AB-27) 2024 yılında yaptığımız ihracat bir önceki yıla göre %4,1 artış ile 108,5 milyar dolara ulaşarak en yüksek değerine çıkmıştır. " English: "Our exports to the European...

having multiple subs with nuclear warheads roaming the open seas would certainly help

I don't know much about the different ballistic missile products of Iran. Do you know how many ballistic missiles did Iranians have(or claims to have) that are equivalent to Tayfun and Cenk in range and(or) in payload if I may ask?

Ofc we'll serially produce ballistic missiles regardless of the ongoing wars. But he's speaking of gaining deterrence via these missiles, the same mindset Iranians had with their numerous stockpile. It didn't save Iranians and wouldn't improve our deterrence that much unless we equip them with...