Exactly. It's a "senin duanla doğmadım ki senin bedduanla öleyim" type of thing. We never asked for Iraqi permission to operate in N Iraq. Our partner there is KRG, not Iraqi government.
They can protest all they want, everyone knows what's going on. This won't effect our operations directly...
Per the recent 75 million contract, a single Coyote 2C C-UAS missile comes up at 125.000$. This will sell like crazy.
A smaller vehicle borne system like M-LIDS here could actually be a great addition to our smaller bases all around Syria, cheaper too. We could do it on a Vuran.
We will keep hearing this word until we are sick of it, and I'm here for it.
I think so as well. Minor issue though, we don't have the engines to build it and maybe to even develop it, hence the backburner.
Absolutely. And number of bases where such a complete solution would be deployed is less than 10 as far as i know. Which is again, at least 200 million dollars.
I don't hate it, just that it wouldn't be as prolific as Pantsir is for Russia, for example.
And Bell is robbed of their double win. No way Raider X would win after Defiant fiasco in FLRAA. We can say that compound helicopters are sent away for this decade.
That's why we have Korkut and Hisar-A, no? Although yes, Hisar-A is not a perfect system. No way army accepts a 8x8 vehicle for armor brigades. And we don't have a tracked vehicle that can accomodate all this gear.
I wonder what the unit price of Gürz would be. 20? 40? New system, 4 to 8 missiles, 4 Sungurs, 35mm turret, 4 AESA radars, multiple EOs, even a laser? Could be interesting for Saudi, no way we get these in numbers tho.
Quoting this from US' cancellation of FARA.
With KKK's interest in T629 being very high, is this the best course of action for future army aviation. T629 is not a big helicopter, it will still be hard to develop mission profiles for it as it will have a lower MTOW compared to purebred attack...
Army already had plenty of drone projects for future as well, and also with drone-helicopter teaming. But yes, they probably mostly think that the time of scout helicopter is over when there's a proliferation of SHORADs over the world. Remember droves of Russian Mis being shot down while flying...
US Army cancels the FARA program aimed to replace Kiowas.
https://www.twz.com/air/army-cancels-hight-speed-armed-reconnaissance-helicopter-program
"We are learning from the battlefield – especially in Ukraine – that aerial reconnaissance has fundamentally changed," Chief of Staff of the Army...
We can't know which is better, and they both probably have their own advantages.
Turkey is a user of L3 EW suites and pods for a long time and we know that they advertised Viper Shield for Turkey for some time...
Yes, the "or equivalent Electronic Warfare (EW) systems" part.
Hence the confirmed. :)
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Number of spares for this is interesting, especially for the mod part(1/4 new builds and 1/2 for mods). Wonder if it's a new system and they fear of possible problems with units or if something else like...
