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By the way, this is the first time Trump and Erdoğan talked since Trump assumed the office for a second time. First time in 2 months. Good, and bad.

This is nothing new and is the Turkish position for years, but still. F-35 might be problematic for a country that would only operate one type, like say Denmark, but not for us. For us, there's only the positives, in a world where HvKK operates F-16 Özgürs, Vipers, Eurofighters, Kaans and...

Because it is simply the most capable fighter aircraft on offer in existence.

"Kiss kiss, hug hug" overtures lasted about 1 week before straddling back to the regular stuff, has to be a new record.

This is a damn good angle. Looks vicious.

On what? Agreed, it probably lowers the amount of USD that enters the system, but allows us to keep our radar, ECM, EW equipment to ourselves, which we should NOT share.

I think it's very possible that we'll see an order of Akıncı and TB3 for Italy soon with some specific Leonardo equipment coupled with more regular subsystems from Turkish companies. "Italianizing" Baykar products or creating new solutions for KE and Akıncı will surely come much later.

Spain is eyeing a new 6x6 program as a "stopgap" measure for the problematic 8x8 VCR Dragon while also possibly lowering the total 1000 number for Dragons. Turkish firms will possibly take part in the tender process. Indra and Otokar had signed a cooperation deal last week, and Indra also...

Also probable, different JV companies. Again to reiterate, there’s no DSCA analogue here, so we may not know the full figure or the full details pf the agreements any time soon.

We have no idea on the specifics as well. Of training, spares, munitions make-up, integration of Turkish munitions etc. 5bn figure comes up at 125mil per jet. Too cheap, and is probably just the flyaway cost of the jets, not including any of the above.

5bn figure is not sourced, nothing to know for now. 8bn is also “at least 5bn”. ıt is good however that gears are finally turning with solid advances. This has been in the works since late 2021.

I like that from time to time they continue to play underhanded.

Turkey already had this capability for at least 2 decades, we are a sub-Harpoon user as well. US, Korea, Egypt, UK, Greece are the ones I remember from my head, they all have UGM-84s.

Possible sale of up to 4 corvettes/frigates to Thailand. Nothing certain, we need a win for this year.

Sadly couldn't get past the paywall, but this is interesting: "Ukraine, Europe is looking for partners: Turkish-led force possible Prime Minister Costa probes the availability of India, Japan, Canada, Australia for the peacekeeping contingent. Erdogan, who has never broken with Moscow, is a...

You don't know that. Untrue. Every force structure have different budgeting due to their different needs and size. It's not 33.3% x 3 at all. A tank used to cost 50.000 dollars in 1945 and a jet used to cost 5 million in 60s. In the original program, KKK is slated to get 250 Altays for about...

With these announced timelines of production and costs involved, we will never have 1000 modern/modernized tanks in the next 40 years unless someone else bankrolls us. Economies of scale don't work here at all. Army is not just being funded less, it's also being downsized since cold war ended...

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk to visit Turkiye next week - seems Ukraine is on the agenda. Poland currently holds rotating presidency of Council of the European Union Says he wants to discuss Turkiye taking a bigger role in stabilizing the region via Reuters