I'm still surprised they could deliver with delays. Which means they do care a lot for their relations with us. Do wonder tho, are we sure these are actually newly built engines? Maybe some refurbished and modified old ones to our specs? Not saying it's a thing or that Ukrainians are playing a...
On the gist of your point and for the greater topic, I do very much agree with you. For our C3I tech, we cannot leave the door open to others, be it the Americans or the Chinese. Same goes for the most critical components on our national projects. We need to nationalize as much as possible when...
This will be made up of two parts back to back. One for the allegations, other for my thoughts on the topic in regards to TECHINT.
Failing to see the issue here where you base your argument on in regards to Anka and the landing software. As we don't have the full dates and a full test history...
Nope. If they were to revert to old system just after the elections, it would be such a pity. KK also said that there would be a transitioning period. The president's chair in 2023 Turkey is much more powerful than the sultan's chair in the Ottomans. Of course it would be used for a time to...
It's not possible to guess what will happen after the elections if Erdoğan loses. One thing is certain tho, there wouldn't be a repeat of the Israeli elections where the coalition faltered and Netanyahu was able to come back as the candidate of the least divided faction less than two years...
A CHP rally in Izmir is always bound to big and red.
That's one way to surmise that. Other is, Erdogan's 52% in 2018 translates to 47% in 2023 in regards to demographic changes in the country, people dying, new voters etc. Erdogan needs to keep that 47% and also get 3% more.
Let's just call it a hybrid munition as that's what it is. It's a loitering munition, a stand off munition and a short endurance UAV in the same platform. With all the links, kement and others, theoretically the chopper pilot can launch the thing and can give the control to a UAV pilot and just...
As an Istanbul romantic, one thing I love is reclaiming old ferries and putting them back into service instead buying soulless new ones. Much much lower cost as experienced workers that know everything about these boats are still working for Şehir Hatları and the nostalgia. I see they also added...
I don't like the name, especially not the TF-23 moniker, but Istikbal is good enough. It's non divisive, references Atatürk, it's something everyone can relate to, pronunciation for non Turkish users is pretty easy as it's an Arabic word. It's fine.
It was also a half baked prototype with some Israeli tech inside and not much else, compared to other more tried and tested participants. I think it's cute that TSK even entertained the idea and allowed them into the tender. But I've always found the retractable turret setup interesting. The gun...
It's "Mehmetçik Busters" actually, it's a patch of the HAF 331 Sq and is a play on Ghostbusters. Sharing patches between participants in an exercise is pretty common.
Hence my thinking that the navy is indeed interested in T23s and it's not just the Brits trying to offload them. I'd think they wouldn't even offer the A140 design to Turkey as we'd just reject it.
