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Offset deals , local manufacture of some parts for Stinger, Patriot etc.

F-16 B60's radar, nose cone and a targeting system on a BAC 1-11 testbed owned by Northrop. We want the funky. Same aircraft carrying F-35's radar. This aircraft was retired in 2019.

Last month's news. T625 is reportedly for their health ministry. What's interesting is that, if it's going to be an air ambulance, it needs to be fitted out. We don't have any experience in doing something like that, at all. For one most air ambulances have backdoors. T625 doesn't. Weird sale...

Ye that's not good.

And the first visible kill. Looks like a big munition.

Approximate location that F-35 went down is about a 1000kms away from Cuba. It probably crashed somewhere in the swampland inside the country as the pilot landed on land, not water.

Absolutely not. San Fransisco's pressured hull wasn't breached and she returned to base under her own power. This Kilo is dead. Not even sure if it can even be repaired at all judging by the third photo that came out. Even if they could, absolutely not in Sevastopol. Perle is an SSN, for...

Yes, their FLIR will be replaced by R-400D, as well as their radars. As far as I know, no SLEP or anything like that is planned for them however. If T625N becomes reality, it won't see general use for at least 6-7 years anyhow and SGK birds can be replaced later down the line. One thing going...

I want to give them some leeway but Russian navy guys manage to surprise me every single time, so let's say she'll probably be back in 2035-38.

We still have some number of AB212s in service, 6 ASWs and 3 EWs if some weren't silently retired. They are less capable but find work on older Mekos all the time, which can't support the Seahawks. Add to it 8 coming Hisar class ships, I can see the need for at least 10 T625Ns just here. Add...

Oh boy, that's a lotta damage. No way she's coming back in this decade. Scratch one improved Kilo.

Yes, Seahawk is unparalled, we are all aware. but there's not much we can do if US won't sell it to us. Then what do we do when we have an increasing number of frigates, OPVs and Anadolu without helicopters to go with them?

To add to this, we never had this many attack helicopters before. It's now 58 in KKK service, 13 with JGK and 3 with EGM. 11 years ago, we only had 12 attack helicopters, we now have 74(+11 whiskeys for the navy), at least half of which are potentially used in COIN ops. They are available like...

And to add, multiple countries are also developing new ones or adding newer capabilities to available platforms. US is procuring new, longer range and faster scout attack helis, making Apaches able to take control of any UAV in the sky with Apache E, Chinese are modifying Z-10, Indians are...

Agree. Suffice to say as Phase 3 is scrapped for T129, the 35 options for T129 will be made a reality with T629 so we can expect at least 35 T629s for KKK already.

edit. Deleting the photos as Heartbang also added them. T625 Gökbey is a 6 ton general use helicopter similar in size to AW169, H160 and Dhruv T629 also known as "Atak 1.5" is a 6 ton attack helicopter using the same engine and transmission as the T625. It will be a bit heavier than T129 Atak...

In my opinion, T625, T629 and T925 will all be navalized. DzKK needs all three for different roles.

Saffet Uyanık says as there are issues with procuring sufficient numbers of engines from Ukraine for T925/T929, T629 development will be accelerated. T925 will be going forward while T929 will be on the backburner.