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And Bell is robbed of their double win. No way Raider X would win after Defiant fiasco in FLRAA. We can say that compound helicopters are sent away for this decade.

That's why we have Korkut and Hisar-A, no? Although yes, Hisar-A is not a perfect system. No way army accepts a 8x8 vehicle for armor brigades. And we don't have a tracked vehicle that can accomodate all this gear.

I wonder what the unit price of Gürz would be. 20? 40? New system, 4 to 8 missiles, 4 Sungurs, 35mm turret, 4 AESA radars, multiple EOs, even a laser? Could be interesting for Saudi, no way we get these in numbers tho.

Quoting this from US' cancellation of FARA. With KKK's interest in T629 being very high, is this the best course of action for future army aviation. T629 is not a big helicopter, it will still be hard to develop mission profiles for it as it will have a lower MTOW compared to purebred attack...

Army already had plenty of drone projects for future as well, and also with drone-helicopter teaming. But yes, they probably mostly think that the time of scout helicopter is over when there's a proliferation of SHORADs over the world. Remember droves of Russian Mis being shot down while flying...

US Army cancels the FARA program aimed to replace Kiowas. https://www.twz.com/air/army-cancels-hight-speed-armed-reconnaissance-helicopter-program "We are learning from the battlefield – especially in Ukraine – that aerial reconnaissance has fundamentally changed," Chief of Staff of the Army...

Didn't they say it was a CAP aircraft from Jordan or something like that, am I misremembering?

Tangibly related. Turkey assumes command of Operation Sea Guardian. We should invite France back 🤪

We can't know which is better, and they both probably have their own advantages. Turkey is a user of L3 EW suites and pods for a long time and we know that they advertised Viper Shield for Turkey for some time...

Yes, the "or equivalent Electronic Warfare (EW) systems" part. Hence the confirmed. :) - Number of spares for this is interesting, especially for the mod part(1/4 new builds and 1/2 for mods). Wonder if it's a new system and they fear of possible problems with units or if something else like...

I guess this means IVEWS confirmed for F-16Vs. Nice.

Unsure, i'd expect AF300, kinda looks like it as well. Twitter's compression is also making it pretty muddy tho.

We will never be 100% and we don't need to be 100%. Literally no weapon system or platform we have are 100% local and they will never be. We still have plenty of projects that do have foreign components and are in fact in the inventory. All TB2s have foreign components, even more than Anka...

LGK-81 is integrated to Hürkuş HYEU. Good news for the niche HYEU training teams and possible future exports. Hürkuş 2 is still planned for 2025.

Is this navalized helicopter is in the same room with us? We are not talking about future T625Ns for navy, we are talking about civilian T625s that were produced at least 2 years ago and are yet to be delivered to gendarme. We first saw J-6001 in 2022. A 2 year delay for a serial production...

Yes, but a light general duty helicopter that will be given to a semi civilian agency is not such a system.

T129, T625 and T70 all have plenty of major foreign subcomponents in them. None of these deliveries can ever be secret. Furthermore, MSB does weekly press conferences talking about recent events, exercises and new stuff added to inventory. That's how most of defence media literally learns about...

An OGM(forest service) Aksungur with a Süper Şimşek. Veeeery interesting. They probably use it as a testbed outside of the fire season? That would be an interesting contract.

First T625 was to be delivered to gendarme in Q1 2023 with all three being delivered by end of 2023. Current delay is 1 year, as still no official deliveries to gendarme has been made and no news about the third being built. Tests are continuing and in november it was announced that 3 T625...