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not government funding, but state funding!

Oh but that is the duty of SSB. There will always be state funding for the defense industry. Just like the US defense industry cannot continue to stay big neither can Turkish defense industry be without state funding. But at the same time it is utmost important that these companies become self...

The question is how much a missile truck is needed. F15-EX is nowadays wanted for her range, not her capacity as bomb truck. Nowadays we do not need a truck load of bombs to destroy a target, one smart guided bomb does the trick

Strange kind of sad. Is not the goal to get our defense companies self sustaining? And when such goals are achieved some people find it sad that it is not state funded. You know how only state funded companies (MKE for most of her existence) functioned

Yes that is a possibility, therefor TAI should maybe prepare and also integrate the EJ200 engine on the aircraft to offer it with 2 different engine possibilities

100W module does not automatically mean you have to use it at 100W (the max possible of that module) If you use for instance just 30W on a 100W module than this module can easily deliver this power and will not heat up excessively. If you constantly use it on 100W than your module will need...

Maybe in the future, but priority is the engine for MMU. So we are talking about years

Having 5000 crap tanks is worthless, Armenians could not use their tanks (they served as target practice for TB2)

Currently no, but I hope TAI is smart enough to make the Hurjet available in 2 engine choices (like F16 has choice between GE and P&W engine). If Hurjet is also available with EJ200 it would be able to sell it to countries where the US blocks the US engine

Smaller diameter engine is usually not that big problem and can be made fit Hurjet can very well use the EJ200 if chosen, the main difference is in the air intakes that need to be adjusted for the type of engine (but even that may not be necessary as the pressure and bypass ratio's of both...

Damn! Why? Now I have to re-schedule my summer vacation

Tech and STANAG wise we agree completely bro. But again, will she have any chance against BMC

Automatically comes to mind, how much chance would it have against BMC? Not technologically / protection wise meant

This was the original production scheme, T1, T2 and T3 phases I am inclined to say with so much fuck up with this Arjun Altay tank to skip T1 and T2 and directly go for T3 with the Roketsan turret

Wasn't BMC supposed to make the whole powertrain?

What a garbage program the Altay tank has become. It's one of SSB's shame projects

Did I miss something? Did the US decide not to give F16's?

I can't imagine, firstly it gets a complete new turret, whether you place that turret on the M60 or take for instance Tulpar or Kaplan won't make the price difference. The tank itself will get new FCS, new engine (1200hp is the aim) and if you place a new engine you automatically have to...

Looking from another perspective how do you guys look at upgrading the M60? I am not even speaking about the dumb item of looking for 1200hp engines from England. Take the M60 which is how many years old, 40, 50? How much sense does it make to turn this old tank into this?: It will still be...

Well we get the opportunity to see how western tanks will fare. All we have to do is watch closely and learn, it will be very educative