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Turdef piece from last week is "official" enough as it's a written response from UK embassy. But nothing signed so far. "We are okay with this" and "It costs 500 million to integrate and certify all these weapons and will take 2 years from the start of this agreement" are different things after all.

Hürjet will be called Saeta II in Spanish service; a nod to the original Saeta, a trainer from 60s and the first jet powered Spanish aircraft. Translating the above article, looks like Roberto did a great job on creating a summary. Underscores are my notes: "Spain has given the green light...

Nice.

USAF is huge in size, about 10 times that of TurAF, which of course doesn't include the navy and corps. FAF undertakes missions from continental Europe to Indian Ocean to Guyana to Sahel with their huge logistics fleet. These are already the first and third biggest air forces in NATO.

Not really, as it's not in use.

There's nothing to suggest that countries ahead of us won't increase their exports are similar levels. Russia is probably expected to lose few more positions, but none of the European countries are losing market share; they all have very large conglomerates that are basically printing money...

Then people ask why the command is begging for new fighters. It's untenable with these logged flighthours and this many aircraft now all getting older. All the respect in the world to the ground crews, they undertake herculean tasks every day. "According to the statement made by our Minister...

Turns out I misremembered. 2023 goal from 2019 per Demir was 10.2B. So the spade of missing marks in the sector is going on since at least 2019, not 2023. "Prof. Dr. Demir stated, "The US, Spain, and Italy are among the top suppliers to Turkey. The gap between exports and imports is narrowing...

These are SASAD figures. Their 2023 report outlined a target of 10.2 billion from 2023 which is yet to be hit. This "defence export" figure also includes civil aerospace exports. It's not a small number by any means, I believe 8.5b puts us at about 12th largest exporter. But, in a world that...

Last 3 year's target was 10B. We are yet to reach it.

Oh boy. Even when you feel like it can't be worse, they manage to go with the worst possible option. 50 lira says we manage to get CAATSA'd a second time by Americans for it lol "Bloomberg reporting that during last week’s phone call between Turkish President Erdogan and Russian President...

I believe our guys' collective reaction to all those experiences over the years basically were, "oh we are so cooked against these modern jets". Wish we get to read some memoirs on TurAFs 2010s in the future. But I really doubt all those trainings ever came close to actual real world experience...

Nope. That's just dangerous.

Wildcat is a 6ton MTOW naval helicopter with 2 of the very similar CTS800-4N engines. It is deployed with one and was tested with 2 LWTs. First Wildcat here is carrying a Korean Blue Shark, larger and heavier than Orka. Stub wings are not really wings, they are just there to carry things...

Seahawk is a great platform, but the version we have is a very specialized variant in ASW. Americans also employ MH-60S in general utility variant as well. T625N will fill that role. in general utility, SAR, VERTREP etc. I wrote about the navy's rotorwing needs last year: We need 12+ ton big...

You're not disagreeing with the quote there. 5.4B GBP includes aircraft, weapons and "integration": "The UK Government has announced a c.£5.4 billion agreement with the Republic of Türkiye for the purchase of 20 Typhoon aircraft and an associated weapons and integration package"...

RIP.

Lovely reporting from TurDef. UK Embassy Details Türkiye’s Eurofighter Timeline and Rights The UK Embassy in Ankara has given TurDef full written answers about Türkiye's plans to buy 20 Eurofighter Typhoon planes. This is the first formal timetable marker and numerous policy-level...

This is not correct. F-16V has all the avionic bells and whistles of a modern 4.5 gen fighter. It's still short of breath and is small but it is very potent. US is planning to use its 600 odd F-16s modernized under the PoBIT well into 2040s. US F-16s today are deployed to Japan, Korea, Middle...

Meanwhile Israel is working overtime to put a wrench in the diplomacy. "Netanyahu held a meeting this month with Frank St. John, COO of Lockheed Martin. Subject: Block Saudi Arabia & Turkey from obtaining F-35 jets...