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As I have mentioned elsewhere, anyone who looks into the history of development of engines like Saturn izdeliye 30, P&W F119, Xian WS-15, IHI XF9 or older and smaller engines like GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri, Snecma M88, Eurojet EJ200 (even with their impressive multi-billion dollar ASMET 14-strong...

True. Just to add to this I have to mention that he's an asset of U.S. state department. U.S. state department and C.I.A have a long history of fear-mongering, overblowing opposition to U.S. hegemonic standing (from Soviets in the cold war, and from China now), downplaying U.S. military power...

I don't agree with him probs on 70% of his analysis, but he definitely is a well-read, intelligent person. Intelligent well-read people can have horribly ignorant views when they get out of their comfort zones; one of my heroes and one of the most well-known public intellectuals in Turkey, Celal...

He says some stuff purely for effect, but anyone who has read his books "Accidental Superpower" and "A Crucible of Nations" can get a sense of his erudition on geopolitics, which is nothing to scoff at. Not liking someone's analysis doesn't make them an idiot.

Also not every generation transition is as clear-cut as the 4th to 5th gen transition (what with all the stealth characteristic geometry requirements). The transition from 5th to 6th will be much more murky akin to 2nd-3rd gen transition probably if the 6th gen doesn't come to be defined by...

But I have to add Islamists are so much bigger of a problem than PKK/HDP could ever dream of. PKK/HDP may try to partition Türkiye, but Islamism will make sure there's no Türkiye. People in Turkey have no conception of the threat that Islamism poses; they look at AKP, YRP, stuff like that which...

My personal experience from different countries has been that those collectivist/tribalistic attitudes are best broken with thorough assimilation into a broader national background, and the best tool of this assimilation is a "good life". One might argue against my reasoning by pointing out that...

Number one constitutes millions of people, the rest are less than 100k. As long as no.1 exists, it will feed the ladder. So The problem is doing the first thing, others are easy. How do you achieve the goal of "People in this category must be discouraged from hopping up the ladder to the second...

HDP (and effectively PKK) have around 10 million sympathizers in Turkey. If you're a patriot you should want to solve that, and what is in the minds and hearts of people cannot be solved militarily. You can solve the PKK part itself militarily, but not the sympathizer part.

The Islamists always understand politics better than idealist nationalists and leftists. Islamists will form coalitions with anyone and everyone and they don't care and their constituents also don't care. They wouldn't care if they allied with the Militant Atheist Party, as long as it helped...

Please give up this TF nonsense; do the French, the British or Germans call their fighters FF, BF or GF? Calling it TF is derivative and lame as hell and stems from a lack of self-esteem. You call it S1 (Savaşçı No.1) for your first fighter, then you can add any moniker you want at the tailend...

The 2028 timeline is impossible, plain and simple. Mr. Akşit is a bidder of the tender for the MMU indigenous engine and it's natural in the competition that they claim fantastical things; I don't find fault with that. I think everyone would have a much better time of it if they brought their...

This reinforced my belief in a pet theory that I have that everything looks better in video compared to pictures. I think I can happily die after I see this thing fly with an indigenous engine.

This. Iran is an empty drum; a lot of noise, no substance. But you can never underestimate their stupidity, so they might go ahead and actually intervene, which would be a disaster for them.

Anka-4 must be in the works as MMU's wingman, since KE is Baykar's own project and MMU's wingman cannot be made by another company with limited access to and knowledge of MMU's integrated electronic systems. Also you cannot have MMU fly with a wingman with a considerably higher RCS profile.

If there was no other developments (TF-X, Anka-3, etc.) this alone still would be a huge accomplishment for a country with (seemingly) as little aeronautics pedigree as ours.

I think it's an Ivchenko engine.

The 29 countries that have sanctions against Russia, make up more than 60% of the world economy. If you think having trade restrictions, banking boycotts, etc. with the 60% of world economy isn't going to have severe long-term consequences, you're delusional. If Putin hasn't calculated this...