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I love it when they don't overpromise and keep to their schedules!

By "design phase", I think they mean CDR is now complete for it and design is frozen. So second prototype can't be that far, we should see it soon. 27 consecutive flights with the first prototype is a great milestone.

I don't think preliminary MTOW figures for updated( after 2020] Kaan were made public by TAI. Correct me if i'm wrong. When that 27000 figure was first touted, then TFX was to have 2 20k lbs engines. Specs for the design changed after 2019.

And confirms my belief that no T625 deliveries to JnGK is yet made.

This is the stupidest thing i've seen this year. Infuriating.

Lightest of these vehicles will be around 35 tons. Engine for them is the 1000hp Utku and it's unaccounted for a long time, last we heard was in 2021. "UTKU engine developed by BMC Power for light armored vehicles and howitzers up to 40-45 tons"...

Some ideas from what I could gather recently: There's nothing to suggest that Arma II runs in the YNHZA program, unlike FNSS Alpha. FNSS directly confirmed that Alpha/Pars V was not a new design and that it had been running for more than 3 years and joined all the tests. BMC's engine for...

Over the years we've heard some chatter that comparing penetrated tanks, Leo2 did give a better chance of survival to the crew. M60T is armored to the brim with NERAs but when they're penetrated, you die. Not always the same case with Leo2. It has far greater crew survivability. Germany didn't...

We, and tanks have come so far from this, to this in 2 short decades. Tank itself is old, tech on it is another thing. With how modified "M60TMM" is, they are more than a gap filler at this stage. They'll soldier on for much longer. With the latest TIYK update that saw the Israeli Knight FCS...

Sabra Mk I was a proposed Israeli mod program, never ordered by Israel or Turkey. Sabra Mk II is M60T.

We have our own Korean DNA L55 but hit a brick wall on L44, such a Turkish problem to have tbh.

AFAIK Turkey license built the IMI L44 gun in Turkey, but this was a fixed contract for the Sabra program, not for us to do as we wish in the future.

And judging by this night's ruckus, looks like Alpha came out on top on the tests. But the claim that a contract was signed can't be true. It will be very public, it's the first AFV program in years.

Assad and his government still breathing is a crime against humanity but here we are.

Too early to say anything, as testing phase for tracked vehicles haven't even started yet per what's been reported for the last 2 weeks.

I don't remember that quote, by FNSS said during their recent talk with Defence Turk that Alpha was part of the testing phase for YNHZA program from beginning to the end. I think we can say that FNSS bid is not Pars III or IV but Alpha. Beginning from 5:00

"The procurement process for wheeled vehicles in the YNHZA(New Generation Light Armored Vehicle) Project will begin in the short term. The results of the competition for wheeled vehicles have been announced. Next up is the competition for tracked vehicles. The initial demands of the TAF for...

Cobra I still alive and kicking. Wonder if they are refurbished from army stocks. Sarp RCWS and jammers are a nice addition. @Afif

Eh, all blockages we got from the congress in the last 5 years have always been bipartizan. If there is political will, they can do it. Our job is to remove that political will, so diplomacy.

That crate only holds 100 or so ammo, so less than 0.5 seconds of engagement time for a Vulcan. And when you add a bigger ammo box and the place to hold that box, it's now a 2.5 ton system. There's a reason why C-RAM is on a flatbed trailer with a huge ammo drum under the gun.