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I wouldn't sell Akınıcı for less than $40mn without ammo. It turns out to be the medicine for underpowered adversaries.

They must be using prepregs and molds like everyone else to cast their parts.

They will probably make the airframe on location and source everything else ready-made.

You are accusing Erdoğan of setting it up, that's the stupidest thing. I wonder who encouraged MBS to do that, who is the mastermind, who wants to jeopardize KSA Türkiye relations and own KSA in its sole hands, I bet it is outside the KSA, more like the CIA. MBS and instigators wanted to blame...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on board as a Bayraktar operator with Akıncı mega purchase.

Kaşıkçı incident is a tiny bit in our relationships. Those who set it up must be wishing for all bad outcomes for us but we must navigate away from all those calculated negative outcomes and maximize our benefit from our international relationships. No sentiment lasts forever if you see positive...

Those voters will be here to destroy all your dreams.

How do you know? He has won 17 victories in a row, this is love, not hate.

Out of larger countries Philipinnes and Vietnam stand out with a total of 222 million between the two.

Türkiye has been diversifying for a long time already, Turkic Union and Africa expansion are two examples of this. Turkiye has the number 5 largest foreign representative network in the world now. And the below map shows which countries President Erdoğan has never visited so far (colored in green).

The unanswered question now is "Are we still asking for American upgrade kits or anything F16 at all?".

We are not getting into a deal where we are not getting anything. We can't do a take-it-or-leave-it deal. We are doing an auction-style deal where we maximize our gains.

We don't need those F16s. You don't spend all your money to buy insurance, we don't need to be ensured all that much. Being ensured is not relying on others, relying on others is surrendering. It is not that we have enemies poised to slam a hammer. There is no one who can attack Türkiye other...

Are you saying we need 15 more years, if not what are you saying?

The reality of the situation is we haven't started engine development just today, we have some background in it and in 5 more years we can get there. I am being realistic, you are being pessimistic. We are some of the frontrunners in unmanned fighters too, and it is also part of the picture.

I would give 5 years to a flyable engine while you want to give 15. Given the pace of progress in the TFX development I would be optimistic that the remaining development work will be as fast, as the political support is still there. Add to this that the only major threat to Turkiye comes from...

It is only a few months to the expected date Kaan is supposed to fly and once he flies as expected it is only engines that we need to secure. With all the other plane projects we do not need to shovel lots of money into new F16 procurement. All we need to do is to upgrade the older models with a...

You are wrong beyond recovery.

Erdoğan will surely use this trump card to its maximum value, there is no doubt.

They have most likely installed that landing gear to test other aspects of the plane like taxying and they were not meant for landing.