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It is said that we bought them at the cost it costed to Italy, 270mn a piece. https://www.haber7.com/guncel/haber/3575666-eurofighter-anlasmasinda-dikkat-ceken-detay

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-control-china-has-over-the-worlds-critical-minerals/

Only the £5.4bn part is a firm deal, we are not a big fan of paying top dollars. Other deals may follow like Hürjet or Kaan down the road, both countries have products to sell and money to buy.

British PM had already disclosed this deal total but people kept speculating anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony Antimony is what makes soft lead bullets harder. Your 9mm bullet has 5-28 % antimony in it. A hard cast lead bullet if also heat treated can penetrate a bear's hard scull while ordinary solf bullets won't. China started sanctioning antimony starting a few...

Please share your posts in this thread reserved for the discussion of critical minerals The definition of critical minerals or materials vary from nation to nation; it is practically materials not widely available but made by very few suppliers. These materials are usually needed in high...

FPV drones rely on critical minerals so we can not make them until we refine our mineral reserves, so we need to make tanks instead.

I read in some webnews that we have software accees and we can use our ammo, selling ammo is my speculation. https://ekonomi.haber7.com/ekonomi/haber/3575123-eurofighter-yaziliminda-turkiyeye-tam-hakimiyet-kaynak-kod-ve-yerli-muhimmat-ayrintisi

F16 no more the top gun, long live the new king

So we can use our own developed wepons on the Typhoon which is great. This can open the doors for our ammo sales to other users too.

Typhoon can fill some gap in the Air Force's capabilities but it will not take any pressure off of the Kaan development.

F110 engines won't make Kaan a top stealth fighter so they will probably be sold.

Isn't a Hürjet LCA already planned for 2027, yes it is. Based on this we even offered our Hürjet LCA to Malaysia against the T50 but we were still in development so we lost. If the Malaysians knew that we would progress so rapidly they would have probably chosen Hürjet instead. We had even...

With all this money going to the Typhoons probably new F16 are already ditched an F35 is unlikely.

The payment for the planes will probably be made over a number of years.

Yes they are just the miners, there are also those who have the reserves but are not meaningfully mining it like is Türkiye. Statistics about refiners are scarse but China is the top one followed by Russia. Sponge state is ready to be melted into the ingot blank you need.

By giving their production slot today they may be looking to secure a Kaan production slot for when the time comes.

They should find a western country to make engines for them to strike Russia. While Russia is far away from them it is our next door neighbor.

So it's not all about the money ha!

Finally a promising step for general aviation in Türkiye; 13 air camps in 11 counties around Türkiye has be designated and more to come. These camps are meant to have the amenities aviators want to have. The promising bit in the news is that they want to spread air camps to the 922 boroughs...