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What an amazing footage. Spectacular drone work. Non existent Russian CIWS strikes again. No wonder Aselsan's naval RCWS sell like hot cakes lately.

NEW: Turkish Defence Ministry sources' reaction to these statement by Biden Admin on F35 issue: - There is no change in the stance of both countries right now - At this stage, the statements made by the USA should be considered a declaration of good faith.

Full unnamed quote: "Our Eurofighter demand continues" In response to a question on whether Turkey's demand for the Eurofighter continues, ministry sources said, "Our demand continues. The positive approach of Germany, one of the consortium countries, is expected. Discussions and studies are...

It used to be Italy 15 years ago. Probably would be UK now. As far as we know, Turkey hasn't yet officially requested to by EF2000, so there's no actual blockage, just that Germany was being "unhelpful".

It was announced as a Tajik and a Russian national.

For this exact reason, delays with GTU-0 are more than normal, even more so than the actual prototypes, and giving it a set date of first flight was always wrong. - Playing the devil's advocate, if we had few F-35s flying around nowadays, we probably wouldn't do this. As we could just use the...

Rekindling old flames? :)

NEW: Erdogan plans to meet Egypt’s Sisi in Cairo for the first time in 12 years on Valentine’s Day, sources tell me. Erdogan might visit Rafah if Sisi looks favourable to the idea to support Palestinians in time of their need

Which do come very handy but you're not replacing 20k MTOW F-16's that go Mach 1.6 with 700kilo TB2s that go 150kts. Even for ground ops, when we want to deal some real damage, it's F-16s with HGK-83s in double rails, not Akıncıs. What's the current Akıncı number anyway, I don't remember a...

This is the least fighters we had since the second world war. F-4s are also goners. HvKK shrinked half to its size since 1990.

It certainly is not but it is perfect for the kind of small and short conflict Turkey may be pulled into against Greece. A long seeing, not being seen AMRAAM machine. We can't afford to lose air superiority against a country like Greece.

Yup. But there's some issues here as well. Mainly, highly unrealistic project schedules with even with many subparts still depending on US and US allies.

Yup. Funny thing is, Turkey even with its current economy can handle Viper, Özgür, F-35, EF2000 and Kaan together. And if the goal is to come to top, and survive the coming decades, we probably will need to. Both the firepower, and the relationships these purchases create.

It wasn't. Just like Juan Carlos 1, Anadolu also needs to be modified to handle F-35B operations.

For one, Turkey never officially asked for F-35Bs.

Not EEZ, territorial waters.

This is passing knowledge. Most if not all ISIS attacks in Turkey were either undertaken by Turkish nationals or by those with Central Asian ancestry. Reina attack was made by an Uzbek, Dokumacılar group was responsible for Ankara, Suruç and Diyarbakır, 2016 Taksim attack was made by a Turkish...

Interesting Polish angle. "New details of ISIS church attack in Istanbul; · Poland Consulate to Istanbul Witold Lesniak was in there, · The car used in the attack was brought from Poland a year ago and it hadn't been used until the day of the attack to church, · Turkey formed an...

I'm still of the opinion that a license built F110(T110), very much can be called a domestic engine.