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Interesting, is that an RPG warhead equivalent? Looks different than the real photo below.

US is in the red 3/1 to its budget for the last 20 years, that's not how finance works. Army is a government institution, it continues working just like any other continued to work. Central Bank being in the red doesn't mean we ran out of money. 89% of the budget comes from taxes, we work our...

Not true at all. Procurement budget is of course part of the yearly budget. About 43% of the 2024 budget was used to buy equipment and services of all kinds. There is also the separate defence industry support fund, in 2024 this was 165 billion liras or about 4 billion dollars. Which is less...

If we shoot 100 billion tomorrow to fund German businesses, have a nice working relationship with Israel and no issues with Greece on Greece's terms, I'm sure they will listen to us closely. We are not KSA. We can't afford to be KSA. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and...

Expendable sonobuoys in question are very light, 10 kilos for Aselbuoy. The housing/launcher unit and say 6-8 buoys will still come at at least 150 kilos. Anything less than that number, it's not worth it. A drone can stay airborne for more than 15+ hours. It can work as the picket line with...

It will be, once it becomes a thing. Such a test would be a Baykar/Aselsan test, not a navy test. Still waiting on that sonobuoy launcher for Aksungur, TB3 I think is too small as a platform for it.

TR is in talks with US to assume the same anti-ISIS ops these RAF jets fly at the moment.

It's not Yaycı's place to announce a Baykar capability. And it is very possibly wrong as well.

Well yes, there are no other 2007 registry aircraft. 30(-1) Block 50+s with CFT and spines for Ds are all 2007-08. This small bird is among our most modern fighters. If I remember right, this might be the first ever photo of SOM with 50+. Possible that UBAS has had a hand in this SOM equation...

F-16 B50+ with SOM, nice catch.

Özbek claims US and Turkey are discussing continuing the stalled T70 program. https://tolgaozbek.com/savunma/t-70-projesinde-kalan-70-helikopter-icin-turkiye-ve-abd-masada/

Annan Plan gave everything Greek Cypriot leaders asked to GCs. Mind you, this was still the same group of people that murdered their ethnic minority neighbours a few decades ago. What's with this chasing equality when history of the island very clearly shows that when the majority had absolute...

Turkish concessions over the decades have been big. Turkish public always by and large supported the consecutive governments in regards to this. What the other side demands is more than an arm and a leg. A withdrawal of troops without a political solution in place with guarantees? What? When did...

More important question here is, is EU willing to failing to integrate Turkey at the whim of Greece and Greek Cypriots. Annan Plan was supported by Turkey, Greece, US, EU, UK and UN. It would oversee a token Turkish force on the island, which would be reduced to 500 in 5 years at most and a...

If we enter 2030s with an all American air force with 2-5 Kaans, so help me god.

She was reclassed as a training and test ship last year. Interesting that it wasn't sent to Somalia instead. It should be a simple, small very short range OPV with two big guns for patrols.

No. That's for HARM. EHPOD(EWPOD) is a a more comprehensive EW/ECM pod, similar to but more powerful than AN/ALQ-211. This Defence Turkey article from 5 years ago is the most detailed piece on EHPOD. I have no idea how delayed this is, but it's a great capability to have, even moreso that...

Dearsan's Hisar model in ASDA 2025:

Also pretty much about money. We don't have unit costs but a very conservative figure of a million dollar each is 4 billion for 4000 SOMs. Dare I say that's probably more than air force spends on all munitions purchases over few years. There's a reason why MAM-L, converted from UMTAS ATGM is our...