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Hopkins seem to agree with my thinking. Something will happen, not sure what tho.

I think we should read this in more strategic terms than tactical. Kalın and Fidan's visit to US to meet with Blinken this week, Iraqi movements up north, Barzani's visit to ADF 2024 etc must be linked.

"We continue our fight against terrorism with determination, regardless of the obstacles inside and outside our borders. We will resolve the issue regarding our borders with Iraq this summer." Hmm. New, big scale op in preparations looks like...

Wow, I think this is the first time we got confirmation of different length Midlas models. Turkish navy only operates tactical length Mk41s. And I'd think only larger Siper versions and Gezgin will use strike length, so it will be basically TF-2000 specific for now. Tactical and Strike...

"NEW: Turkish President calls Greek Prime Minister to wish him happy birthday. Just a week after Mitsotakis called Erdoğan to wish him a happy birthday. Seems like the Friendship Declaration signed in December is functioning." Same guy Erdogan said he didn't exist for him anymore and would...

RAM and SeaRAM can be reloaded while underway. They have a simple winch and pulley system. Being a CIWS, it's a necessary capability. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/achnkFYLECc -- New Levent mockup has double the front fins over the one shown in Idef last year and in a 2022 presentation btw...

Hürjet development program cost is $1+ billion. "-With a budget of more than $1 billion, this project is Turkey's first national manned supersonic jet aircraft. Development and maturation work continues unabated. TAI Deputy General Manager Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Öztürk"

No project cost was made public. From a quick skim, most I could find was a 800 million dollar figure for all the projects signed by Turkish companies in Dimdex 2018, which also include 200+ NMS from Nurol, 85 Kirpi and Amazon from BMC, 6 TB2s from Baykar, 9 boats up to 50 meters from Ares and 8...

Al Doha Class cadet training/OPV ships are not something huge or very special, but I think they would be a simple and not so expensive design as a training ship for the navy. Anadolu already built 2 of them back to back and very fast. Put a 30mm gun on the bow, work it as an OPV when needed...

I have a question on this. How does Kargu's warhead work? I always imagined it being like Claymore mine, where majority of the blast is pointed forward. How do we know this was a failed strike?

And the first official confirmation that T625 Gökbey will be navalized in the future. T625 was always the perfect choice to replace SGM's 14 AB-412s. They want both T625s and T925s. Once it can finally be delivered, T625 already have onlookers from coast guard, possibly police and of course...

I remember the detractors... "We don't need no flying test bed, we have Akıncı"...

With Turkish subs

It is interesting to me that Japan is considering Mowag Eagle 5 (partnered with Marubeni) and Thales Hawkei(Mitsubishi) to replace its Komatsu LAV fleet. Non Japanese vehicles in Japanese army is interesting, and other interesting thing to me is that out of all the available Turkish ones, they...

Probably an incomplete list, but Turkish Ucav users per IISS Military Balance 2024. @Zafer you got a competitor...

Albania had placed their order back in december 22, 16 months ago. Baykar's order book is so full...

By the way, I might be reading too much into this and the missiles on the first test fire from last year had no guidance sections probably, but unlike those missiles with a supposed RF seeker, this Çakır has an IIR seeker. Çakır from May 2023: Çakır from February 24 with IIR seeker

Honey wake up, new Çakır test dropped!