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Exactly. Doesn't mean shit. Germany is building 10500 ton frigates.

Project started its life as a frigate. Tonnage increase doesn't mean much in itself. At the end of the day, Navy will just slap the F prefix in front of it like all others.

It was never called a destroyer. TF, Turkish Frigate. So many British lines from QE. Don't know how much sense that makes when Brits are thinking about modifying QE heavily. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/project-ark-royal-plans-for-angled-decks-and-drones/ And I'll point the elephant. Kaan...

Erdogan's top aide colonel Ali Yazıcı is currently in prison for being a FETO member.

Nothing except the CGI video from last month which was rare for TAI, they don't usually make videos like that.

I will kindly ask you to please refrain from low effort posting. 6 billionaires didn't die, 2 businessmen, wife and child of Wigwe and two pilots of the aircraft died. Event was pretty well reported on and I also followed the news. Crash is of course under investigation by NTSB and Airbus as...

I do. If you think such a huge thing can be kept secret in Turkey of all places where we have gulenists, other cults and dumbass 3rd degree officials that spout any info they have on live tv, be my guest. Back to exports pls.

Former Hürkuş test pilot and TAI test flight chief Hüseyin Fazla says TAI spent 600 million dollars from its own resources on T929 Atak II. No other sources for the figure aside from his own words, but this is a very rare figure we got on development costs of a national project. "According to...

"The company that established the 155 mm artillery ammunition production line in the USA and the companies that will establish the light ammunition factory I wrote about do not want their names to be made public yet. Let me add one more thing: Soon you will hear news about a Turkish company...

In my ideal scenario, we get kits and license, TAI builds the aircraft and HvKK applies the kits if possible, and TAI takes some of the backlog from LM, building jets for other customers, bringing in sweet cash to fund other projects. But as I said, nothing is certain as of yet. Maybe first TAI...

It isn't. Nothing is certain until deal is signed. We don't even know if TAI can accommodate building the new aircraft with a whole new production line, or if LM would be interested in license production, or if US is even interested in such a thing. I think modernization kits can be applied by...

Interesting wording from Güler. "This initiative, led by Germany, is an important step towards the fulfillment of NATO's requirements while ensuring interoperability and integration of allies. Turkey is ready to contribute to this initiative with a wide range of national capabilities. I would...

Looks like talks with PUK didn't work. Cooking. - PUK's support for the terrorist organization in Sulaymaniyah - President Erdoğan: When it comes to our survival and national security, we close the doors of tolerance and do whatever is necessary.

"Ministry of National Defence sources said that the official congressional notification for the procurement of 40 F-16 Block-70 and Viper Modernization of 79 F-16 aircraft and various other materials for the F-16 procurement and modernization process and use and the F-35 program was made by the...

Thinking about capabilities this would bring, doesn't ESSI use Patriot for long range, and Arrow 3 for ABM? How do we get into *that* ? This is not THAAD or SAMP-T that we may think about getting into with some back and forth.

I already wrote about it yesterday on this same forum, it's on the last page. Noone forced us to use 40 year old tanks against modern ATGMs and use horrible FSA militias as an infantry force to protect the tanks. There are no contemporaries to Leo2a4 that could survive Al Bab, it was hell on...

I mean, all arms procurements are political decisions. Still, Leo2 came out on top of all tests we ran and it was the best tank available for our needs. Original Altay was basically a Turkish Leopard 2A7. There were no other tanks we liked at the time, literally. K2 came much later and even...

Lol, maybe an anti-Starlink EMP for LEO. Now, that would be an interesting capability.

I mean, if they put nukes in space, it still doesn't change much. Be it for a first strike or a second strike, US doesn't have the ABM capability do shoot down all, even most warheads. No one does.

I think it's just a big whole smoke and mirrors.