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I wonder if it's F16 but they specifically avoid saying they did it because they fear of legal repercussions from LM and US in general, or maybe trying to promote Akıncı first?

Remember wagner coup

I expect a couple dozen at best but it'd be nice if we had like 48+ Ankas. Also yeah I hope we make a fighter drone that resembles the concepts of 6th gen fighter after Anka 3 as a prelude to 6th generation and beyond.

Yes it's not meaningful to expect people to fly 44 hours without sleep, toilet and food surprisingly. Wouldn't wanna be in the place of U2 spy plane pilots though

So now we just need to see firing tests of Sapan and basically all weapons systems will be indigenous from now on

When landing it puts the front gear very quickly, unlike TB 3 that takes a long while and TB3 is supposed to land on Anadaolu. Interesting.

You mean for KAAN? Yes, we knew that for years. I think it was like first 40 planes that will be "4.5" gen versions with F110

Shit is that for real? Now that's some good news we needed

I'm disappointed in myself for actually believing something at face value once in a long time.

And land on tcg anadolu as is tradition

When KAAN airframe becomes proper airworthy why don't we just quickly integrate avionics of özgür which are pretty much complete and MURAD that hopefully is like 2-3 years away for fastest interim solution? Are we planning to use BURFIS etc for first block? Because I don't want to be reading...

W.r.t drones with A2A missiles, NASAMs was very effective in ukraine and if we find Gökdemir compelling, I don't see why we can't have a drone that's effectively flying version of an air defence system.

I don't know the power output of akıncı but PD170 is 4.5×2 kW. Aksungur therefore has 18kW. I couldn't find info about PT-6 but what are the chances it's less than a PD170? I remember that for F16 A/B that for F16 A/B that's 30-40 kVA and for C/D it's 50/60kVA. So if 2 PT-6 can produce anywhere...

Hope they have a B plan to recycle MURAD, those will still be relatively new by then.

I mean sure they want but operating 240 Kaan and operating 240 F16 are monumentally different. Both regular cost and effort for maintenance etc will make that very difficult

Do we have any companies testing stuff like 6.8mm? It's kinda weird US army decided on it when like entire rest of nato is going for stuff like HK416 including US marines. It's gonna make logistics difficult. We would be smart to offer alternatives if nato at large decides to stock up on it.

We also have some atacms I think :)

If we try to make use as many common subsystems as possible I too support the idea of splitting project into two if given the budget. Light corvette and smaller FAC would make it easier to finalize requirements.

My expectation for navy slightly resembles that of russia though I know russia isn't best country to mirror. Nonetheless. you know they don't have the best budget and only one carrier which is always under repairs. But not having a carrier doesn't mean we shouldn't have proper airstrike...

FAC are low endurance ships and they don't have room for a usv anyways. For most operations where FAC may be used you can also use the USV from home port.