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We lost what, 20 to 30 percent of our flyers in a year in 2016? Yes, every lost pilot is a monumental loss in experience as well as time and money in the drain. No one doubts that. We can't replace the aircraft we lose. In a time of war, we will lose pilots with their aircraft. Point of...

Yup, don't recall a single instance of Zaslon during the war.

Joint Pakistani-Baykar-Roketsan kamikaze munition over in Ukraine?

In a war scenario where we lose 100-500 men a day, we are bound to lose some pilots as well, that's why we have CSAR birds. It's not about the inherent value of the human life, plain and simple, they will die.

Why? Better UAE than Israel, no? Someone will HAVE to supply them at the end :D

I'm going to tattoo A T T R I T A B I L I T Y on my arm. Ukraine's invasion showed us. Tech alone doesn't cut it. If we are to have wars in this century, our cutting edge weapons need to be cheap. If an advanced Kızılelma costs 50 million apiece, it's not very different than losing an F-16 in war.

Well, we did. Naval News piece on Hai Kun did mention Taiwanese creating a local substitute. "Originally, the IDS would feature a license-produced ZOKA Torpedo Countermeasure System from ASELSAN, a Turkish defense contractor; however, as the Turkish government was tied by political factors...

Otokar just announced a 136 million $ sale of 4x4 armored vehicles to an unnamed country. Cobra 2 is riding high this year. https://www.kap.org.tr/tr/Bildirim/1225911

Plenty of TB2S models on this still with Satcoms. None of them have Turkish flags. I wonder TB2S make what percentage of TB2 exports.

Price we pay for security.

That looks less like an explosion and more like a fire. Wonder if it's an EV :D

Oh wait, this is wrong. Figure i used was 100k barrels a year. Current TPAO production is 30k barrels a day. If we could do 30k barels every day of the year, it would mean 11 million barrels a year.

Piece is from November 7, around the time we discussed it. So nothing new. https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/4521733/turquia-negocia-espana-segundo-portaaviones-basado-juan-carlos-i

Nice advertisement. Where are the ÖMTTZA deliveries tho

Sloooowly getting there.

"...On December 27th, we will watch the flight of KAAN together." https://www.ekonomim.com/gundem/bakan-gulerden-almanyaya-boyle-muttefiklik-olmaz-haberi-719838 This is from today, per ekonomim.com from an NTV live interview.

More than Umtas, a Yalman launcher. Add 4 Umtas-GMs on it, would be a great NLOS weapons platform for shallow seas against anything smaller than a corvette. TBH I never liked that location for Yalmans. Would steal from Gökdeniz's operating angle. Maybe at the back, behind RCWS? Or maybe it's...

No Umtas launchers on the sides of Gökdeniz, but there will be diver detection dipping sonars?