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The notion of close air support has always been low altitude flight and dive bombing until lately, like the ones performed by A10s and Tornados in the gulf war. Bombing enemy positions near friendlies is the act of CAS. But it has always been done by low altitude flight runs in the absence of...

Are you sure? Super Tucano is a propeller driven slow plane. Hurjet is as the namesake is a JET plane.😀 I guess you meant Hurkus!

CAS concept, with current AD systems may no longer be feasible. For a plane to be effective at close air support, it needs to be as fast as a Panavia Tornado at sea level (1482km/hr) and as robust as an A10. Still they will fall prey to most modern AD systems. During first gulf war, 3 Tornados...

https://defencehub.live/threads/turkish-attack-utility-helicopter-programs.9/page-46 When asked if there will be a naval version of T-625 Gokbey and T-929 heavy attack helicopter for TCG Anadolu, Mr Kotil responded by saying, for now we are thinking of naval version of T-929. That is good news...

According to this site they have 61 fighters; 28 SU27 21 MIG29 12 SU24 Plus 13 SU25 as CAS. How many of them are readily operational, is another question. https://www.wdmma.org/ukrainian-air-force.php

US has been fairly lax in supplying sub systems for our defence industry.

Is this TS1400 that measured as a 1600HP engine on tests? I thought it was already delivered to be tried on Gokbey! Or is there another one?

https://www.defenceturk.net/roketsan-yalmandan-arka-arkaya-tam-isabet Yalman fitted on to FNSS‘s KAPLAN armoured vehicle with 4 Cirit and 2 Umtas missiles have been hitting targets. The Laser seeker version of Umtas range has been given as 0.5-9 km. The system is becoming part of the Turkish...

Exactly. As such a device’s presence can’t be known, we can only guess and use conjecture. Even if there is, they will never admit it’s presence and we will never know. If any country knew such a device is fitted on their plane they wouldn’t be very willing to buy that plane. It is a good idea...

Can you give us concrete proof that what you claim can be done by the push of a button? Or is it just a generalisation that if US wants to ground any county’s F35 fighters, they can do it by stopping spares etc? Because that statement is a bit vague!

To add to your post re f16 crashes; TAF has bought 280 f16s in total through Peace Onyx program. Today we have 245 F16s. (87 of these are used as trainers) So we have lost 35 planes.

It is a valid argument in the sense that these countries have made a conscious choice (like we had until we were kicked out - we were those countries once) to purchase these planes knowing exactly how much they are technically going to be dependent on US. US supporting PYD and clashing with us...

You are free to believe in whatever you want to believe. But just think that if this plane were such a security problem as it is made out to be, why on earth countries like UK, Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, SKorea, Denmark, Poland, Belgium and Singapore have ordered these...

I am afraid it is not quite as drastic as you have portrayed here. The ALIS - Autonomic Logistics Information System that the F35 planes have, is actually like a small laptop device that contains mission and flight information and is pushed in to a slot on the cockpit by the pilot before each...

M60T Sabra modernisation has proved to be very effective. It has shown how survivable this tank becomes in live battlefield conditions. We have now updated these tanks further in to M60TM configuration. We can do these modernisations in house. They need a 1000hp MTU engine. We have an...

What you see as flip side of what West has done , I see as our deficiency and shortcomings in our education system. It is only now are we seeing our Universities and scientific establishments being involved in research and development. Still many of our private enterprises are only interested in...

If you want to be paranoid about it, then we shouldn’t buy any planes whatsoever from US. We all know that the indigenous way is the way to go. But do not forget that every single technical advance we managed up till now, has it’s roots at the Western know how given to us and western tech we...

F35 may have it’s drawbacks. But they are great planes that will tip the scales to the side of the airforce using them. Yes, if you do not have the source codes and freedom to integrate your own weapons, it is a drag! It ties you dependent on US origin weapons. But to have a couple of squadrons...

To tell you the truth, the only thing that really is great about this plane is that, it has a very agile airframe that performs really well with a comparatively small engine like f414 and it’s GaN based Aeas radar on the new E and F versions. Biggest down side , apart from all those US and...