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Brits got big money for the engines of ~500 fighters (250 for TR+250 for export). A single-engine might cost 5 million $ so 1000+ engines will cost 5 billion+ and Brits will continue profiting in the future when we take life cycle costs into the consideration. Big mind games were played by both...

Lol, the export restrictions came after the engine talks fell through. But Brits didn't follow it letter by letter most of the trade continued with some of them denied. Now they are lifting it after the engine deal happened and they made Canada lift its restrictions too.

Ridiculously high. Countries that can buy AH-64, will buy AH-64 at that price point. Countries that cant get congress approval might buy Atak-2. We should keep the cost under 50million $.

It is not just the gearbox. Gearbox has been in development from the start and TEI knew very well that it will be subject to an export license. But it seems like delivery of the basic accessories like oil pumps, oil tanks, and oil coolers was also denied so TEI went the extra mile to nationalize...

Sad news Reis class submarine project (U-214TN) is delayed at least another year(probably after 2023 elections) because of the German embargo. Germans gave "covid delays" as one of the reasons and are playing the stalling game. No official embargo on naval systems but also stopping delivery for...

Alp Havacılık gearbox project is an old project, it goes back to the early days of TS-1400 but It seems like we are nationalizing accessories of the engine probably those are embargoed for a military version. The west sunk so low to even embargo basic accessories. Now it is also clear why a...

This will be indeed very good for us and worth signing the contract under those terms but unfortunately, it won't get congress's approval. We need a miracle for this to happen.

We discussed this matter a lot. No new F-16 jets can be delivered before 2027-2028 unless the US agrees to set up a production line at TAI which is highly unlikely for 40 new fighters. There are fewer problems with the modernization of old F-16s. Serial modernization can be done rather quickly...

I hope congress denies the sale.

Italians should lobby the US for the export license. There are some influential Italians in the US.

Since the news comes from the Russian media I'm skeptical at the moment.

It is not just the car itself. TOGG comes with an entire ecosystem. For example, batteries will be used in house appliances, submarines, aircraft, EVs, energy storage solutions, etc. Software development for IOT (internet of things). Extraction and purification of rare earth elements...

TOGG is a project poised to succeed. It has everything to self-actualize. It is like Turkish drone projects you just can't go wrong with it.

We should work with Italians to get an export license for Pakistani T-129s.

That would be excellent. Those cargo planes can carry up to 150 tons of cargo, and has a big cargo area even bigger than C-5 Galaxy. We should immediately launch a project to upgrade them with Aselsan/Western avionics if they have Russian avionics. 4 An-124 will give us much-needed strategic...

One of the candidate shipyards failed to deliver its offer for the Milgem i class tender before the deadline(1 April) so upon the request of the shipyard the deadline is postponed another week to 8 April.

AVCI Gen II helmet is also nearly done.

It might be related to that. Under embargo conditions, acceptance tests were planned from the second half of 2025 and the full delivery for the first aircraft was planned for 2026 with all 4 delivered by the end of 2027. We might shave off one year from this schedule with the easing of the...

Don't be surprised if you see monthly export figures higher than 25 billion in the summer months. BTW first-quarter defense exports are around a billion. We might also hit 4billion+ yearly defense exports this year.

Germany is subsidizing its own product.