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A CHP rally in Izmir is always bound to big and red. That's one way to surmise that. Other is, Erdogan's 52% in 2018 translates to 47% in 2023 in regards to demographic changes in the country, people dying, new voters etc. Erdogan needs to keep that 47% and also get 3% more.

A more survivable, compared to a TB2, faster launch platform. It gives more options to strike with from multiple directions and altitudes.

They gotta stop with this first in the world nonsense imo.

Baykar and Ukraine signed 3 new agreements today. I think one of the deals concern engine sales to Baykar from Ukraine.

Let's just call it a hybrid munition as that's what it is. It's a loitering munition, a stand off munition and a short endurance UAV in the same platform. With all the links, kement and others, theoretically the chopper pilot can launch the thing and can give the control to a UAV pilot and just...

and the front of the vehicle you're riding, and the engine, and the dashboard, and the driver.

As an Istanbul romantic, one thing I love is reclaiming old ferries and putting them back into service instead buying soulless new ones. Much much lower cost as experienced workers that know everything about these boats are still working for Şehir Hatları and the nostalgia. I see they also added...

I don't like the name, especially not the TF-23 moniker, but Istikbal is good enough. It's non divisive, references Atatürk, it's something everyone can relate to, pronunciation for non Turkish users is pretty easy as it's an Arabic word. It's fine.

Nice! Better question is, how many will TSK actually get? Don't remember seeing a number.

It was also a half baked prototype with some Israeli tech inside and not much else, compared to other more tried and tested participants. I think it's cute that TSK even entertained the idea and allowed them into the tender. But I've always found the retractable turret setup interesting. The gun...

It's "Mehmetçik Busters" actually, it's a patch of the HAF 331 Sq and is a play on Ghostbusters. Sharing patches between participants in an exercise is pretty common.

Hence my thinking that the navy is indeed interested in T23s and it's not just the Brits trying to offload them. I'd think they wouldn't even offer the A140 design to Turkey as we'd just reject it.

Size difference with the T129 is something for sure. It could be a test bed/prototype to see if the engine set up works. We'll see.

As we literally have no info on whether this is part of a grander cooperation or sale between UK and TR, we can't really comment on them. But, if they are still talking about this between closed doors months later it was first brought forward, we have to take into account that the navy might be...

Can we see a test fire of the Çakır family first to see the rate of development, please and thank you.

Typical. There will come a day when these groups will be named as criminal organizations and its members will be hunted by the police. Assassinating past members after "leaving the cause" is something the mafia and the terrorists do. Bahçeli played on the "days of the armed conflict is over, we...

My day was made. Thank you, finally. Imagining an A330 or a 767(a type TK is not experienced in but Turkish technic does maintain foreign customers), you can load engines, radars, any EO and avionics you can think of. Something smaller, and you might have issues with stability and lack of space...

I get what you're saying, but why does it need to be a direct new tech? Being a good systems developer, a good concept developer and having the affinity to bring many different COTS parts into a meaningful product is a trait on its own, something Baykar does excel at. As for the CONOPS of...

That's one ugly chonky boy. LOVE IT

Remove the orange test bits and it's such a clean design.