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    TR Defence Exports & Updates

    If there is one category of weapons that might be open to sale that would be defensive weapons but I don't think We are gonna make only single arms deal with Afghanistan. We have seen Number of drone sales to countries under UN Embargo, So, I can see relazitation of this sale but Im not so sure...
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    TR F-16 Özgür | Hürkuş - Fighter Trainer Aircraft Projects

    You can't generalize whole MIC like that. PRC is well ahead of us in many categories especially in Long range Missile and related technologies. But They lack critical access to NATO know-how, this render all of their avionics well behind Turkey. Until France's idiotic move that allowed Safran's...
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    TR Casual Discussion TOGG - Türkiye's Automotive Joint Venture Group

    It looks like They changed their long term plans very recently (within this year). 28k t10x in 2023 means they will have annual capacity above 60k. This is well above their C SUV target. They will have 5 separate production line for 5 different models, This might mean, they will produce more...
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    TR F-16 Özgür | Hürkuş - Fighter Trainer Aircraft Projects

    If Ukrainian war show anything, Yes you can over-saturate any target. I dont want to get into this silly war game scenarios but here goes nothing. In any hypothetical war, We need to be able to over-saturate every greek naval base, airbase and naval ship. Çakır missile is developed for this...
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    Deal is signed for the First batch of ts1400. Deliveries will occur in late 2024-early 2025.
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    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    10-15 years ago Turkish airforce was consist of 250 F16 And 150 F4. Original plan was to replace 150 F4 with at least 100 F35 but that number would likely change. And TFX project was going to be single engine local fighter similar to check mate and it was planned as 1to1 replacement. 350+...
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    TR Industry, Science and Technology

    Tesla is profitable mostly thanks to carbon tax in the west, and other brands slowly started to sell their EVs so they won't be buying Tesla's carbon service any more. More İmportantly, battery cost is much higher than engine/transmission costs and Battery R&D cost is also much higher, and not...
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    TR Industry, Science and Technology

    50k$ is not an average price of car before tax. 50-80b$ is a healty number but 100b+ is much preferable for long term profitably of an Automotive company. As someone who worked for over 5 year, this is Unfortunate reality of Automotive Industry.
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    TR Industry, Science and Technology

    I dont know where you got 50k number but that is not expected/projected in this decade. Current factory will have 175k annual capacity. And That number will be reached around 2026. Iirc Original target was 7k car for this year but Goverment pushed it to 20k. And In order to hit break even point...
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    TR Industry, Science and Technology

    Here is a video showing flux pinning proprety of LK99. Flux pinning only occurs in Super conductive materials. https://www.douyin.com/video/7263715495256378659 For More detail
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    TR UAV/UCAV Programs | Anka - series | Kızılelma | TB - series

    Tai knows what is best for their company and Turkish defense industry. 2 year is quite a short cycle for military aviation. When Countries decides to buy Aircraft, They expect it delivered in the mid to long term. Not in a few weeks or months. And They allocate their budget accordingly. There...
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    TR Industry, Science and Technology

    First claimed successful replication of LK-99 Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (from China) Edit: There is another replication again It is from China, Western researcher I follow at least need a day or two. It looks like Berkley simulation also...
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    TR Defence Exports & Updates

    KSA Baykar deal is above 5b$
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    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    Are you serious rn? Can u DM me the name or Is it just a rumour with no name attached?
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    Army Future Soldier [Weapons - Sensors - Data Fusion - Communication]

    Here is the perspective of a US soldier about Night vision sensors, After watching his opinion It seems to me, Cenker project has some gaps that we need to reconsider, Especially after Seeing effects of night vision on Ukraine.
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    This is really good news, This is cutting edge technology private companies are following NASA, Jaxa and Chinese Academy of Sciences to mature it. It might replace classical liquid fueled rocket engines in the long term. It is good to see SAGE is right up there compiting with such institutions.
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    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    Over the last year, Ukrainian war happened, And Picture is clear and Turkish air force is well aware of air battles happening over there. Recent (iirc pentagon or think tank) report was clear, even though Russia failed in Sead/Dead mission, R33 is extremely deathly long range a2a missile, And...
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    TR Defence Exports & Updates

    First phase will be consistent of 1 system which will cost 100m$ and will have 3 Uav and related ground stations. But they have firm order only for phase one. So there is optional 2 more system, If Malaysia decides. They might award other phases to other contenders like LMS Corvette deal. China...
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    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    This needs to be shared here, I literally LoLed Saab's Chief engineer to TFX project manager circa 2011 Full translation, With our force's demands, the 2x F135 or equivalent will barely fit. I'll never forget, SAAB's chief engineer said 'are you aware what you want, this is F22 re-invented'.

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