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How many fighters do they have left after the splinters, HTS beating them and infighting of the last few years?

Wish we had some kind of defence media that could ask this question. Who's Unirobotics and why are they being propped up to replace Stamp and Stop directly by SSB and the navy. Hisar Class ships are still at least 100 million apiece, Using a new, untested non stabilized gun, while we already...

This will have security complications for us as well.

Rosatom: We will build the second nuclear power plant in Turkey "President Erdogan made it clear that there was a political decision to transfer another field to us. Now we are working on the details. Most likely, the new construction site will be named Sinop." Directly says "transfer". Sinop...

I think Atmaca launchers are just not shown on the new images. No way navy goes for vertical launched ASM and bring about all that new development cost and lose VLS space.

Since everyone is talking about it: I'm fine with dealing with Saudis and creating a partnership on Kaan if need be. Can't say the same on UAE tho. Unlike Saudi, UAE spent billions on working against us in multiple theaters, in Libya, Syria, East Med, Sudan and Somalia and again unlike Saudi...

I've had similar thoughts on this for some time, and never knew there was such a concept. Sad that there's only one easily found Turkish work one can read up on it, and it is of course from Evrim Ağacı, northstar of the Turkish internet...

I think this is much bigger news. That's not good.

Please stop trying to sew American alt right politics into Turkish politics, no such thing exists here. "Attacking parenthood and traditional marriage" is literally a key American alt right talking point. Guess fucking what, we have none of that in Turkish politics and our population growth is...

Old 27000 ton MTOW figure is from before 2019 when Kaan was to use 2x 20000lbs engines. We don't have a set projected figure for the 35k engined Kaan.

I mean, I would fervently oppose Turkey buying JF-17s. It's an aircraft Pakistan wanted to replace F-7s and Mirage 3s with. Its other customers are Nigeria and Myanmar. It was always designed to be the low in a hi-lo mix. And Pakistanis clearly class it below F-16s and J-10Cs. But if it fits...

well... I wouldn't follow American aircraft developments from the Russians.. JF-17 is a low cost fighter for the 21st century with some real improvements. Threat to Azerbaijan comes from Armenian and Iranian Sukhois. JF-17 B3 can deal with those. B3 includes an AESA radar, HMDS, IRST and few...

Well this has been talked so much over the years so until we see an agreement or even planes delivered(remembering the case of M346s for Azerbaijan) it's better to not get too hyped just yet.

Well we haven't seen the actual text, but I doubt it would give coordinates instead of just saying "Somali territorial waters". Both Somalia and Turkey recognizes "Somaliland" as part of Somalia. So, technically yes. We'll wait and see what it actually means and what are Turkey's plans about...

Holy shit it's a fast news day!

Thinking about it, any platforms we may retire, would not be a great pick for operating costs. Burak Class avisos maybe? I'm thinking lots of Yonca and Ares boats and even 1 or 2 lightly armed Hisar Class OPVs in the future. Maybe we can send the first two Hisars after opearting them for a few...

Very interesting development. Everyone is talking about the Ethiopian angle but Somali sources say that this was in the works long before. We don't have the details sure, but the deal looks to be pretty comprehensive on everything naval and EEZ. Somalia doesn't have a navy, or a coast guard. For...

"Let them embarrass me if they can, I'll be satisfied." I wrote this back in 2018 on TF-X. And today, I am so, so happy to be proven wrong and embarrassed. What a great day to be alive to have witnessed this event, even though I had to be away for the day and keep my excitement to myself while...

Nope.

Come to Istanbul...