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To build new F16's we need to free up production lines, get production line setups from LM etc. etc. (not worth the investment while we are fully going for Hurjet and Kaan) The Tomtas facilities can be fully reserved for upgrades, buy 80 upgrade kits for viper upgrade and pump out Ozgur blk II...

Simply go full rate on Ozgur upgrade, Turkiye has the TAI and Tomtas facilities. Upgrade them in record time to Ozgur blk II level

Turkiye should buy more upgrade kits and cancel buying new F16's, their delivery time is just not worth it. Buy maybe some AA missiles and keep the cost at minimum

I doubt that a 140kg Bozdogan missile can be carried on the wing of TB-3. There are plans for the Sungur missile but I have not seen any plans for Bozdogan. Is it a wishful thinking?

Is a round radome not a blob on the radar?

20bln doesn't make sense Even if the 900 AA missiles cost 3mln / piece it would make less than 3bln As usual the mentioned amount is far above the real value, kind of masking the real sales

Has to be a hybrit than, for Ramjet, Scramjet the missile needs an initial speed that pushes the air inside. These type of engines do not have a fan that compresses air into the engine like a turbojet engine. Or it needs an initial booster that brings the missile at speed

Yes, navalized Hisar RF

Even removing the package alone is not enough since chips are multilayered, they have to find special ways to remove layer by layer and than go from chip architecture level to schematic level to understand the working. It is not impossible but it is IMO even more difficult than design a chip...

While we talk about smart missiles comes to my mind Gürcan Okumus, we still do not know what happened to this guy. Is it so easy to sacrifice someone important like that, we have very important project ongoing: Kuzgun, Gokhan, gezgin and hoooop the guy leading the projects get wasted just like...

I would say OK we have a certain problem with Altay tank production but why are the M60's and Leopard 2A4's still not upgraded. Looks to me that we have a tank problem that goes further than Altay somehow

Unless there is real proof I do not like it when some things are insinuated (like Baykar trying to slow down TAI, where is the proof?) On the choice of Rotax engine I think Baykar has taken the most logical and technically best solution. Rotax has damn good engines that provide the power and...

Are you aware you are comparing our drones against countries that are World power nr. 1 and 2? Something impossible just 10 years ago

How many dogfights occurred between Ukrainian fighter jets and Russians?

Why not? There is already the concept idea to make Kizilelma twin engine. A cooperation with Tusas to make that drone a twin engined jet fighter with 2x T10000 engines is technically very possible, question is do we still need the pilot, if yes than it could be a smart way

In very exceptional cases perhaps but it would be extremely odd since Greeks modernize their F16's with AESA. They'd be stupid to engage our F16's with dogfight

Don't think so, Turkiye shot in the last 10 years 1 Russian and 2 Syrian craft, none of them by dogfight

This is exactly where the "stealth" factor of 5th generation impacts. See first, shoot first. Besides dogfights nowadays only occur during training with "friendly" forces. When was the last time a fighter jet was downed in a dogfight?

Sure I do not disagree with that, but see US and China buying 4th gen is to support their own industry and that is not a dumb thing to do. Question is who do we support if we chose at this point a 4th gen? Chosing a Hurjet light fighter would be acceptable just like US and China is doing...

Yes I guess so, not my opinion but that of an experienced US pilot.