Why are you so much afraid about F-35s, we're not planning to use them againts US are we. They will make it clear who can't we use them on and IF our politicians agree (like the last time) then we can purchase the aircraft. There won't be any suprise later.
Nothing we can do but I'm sure alot of people care if it's going to be a 7 billion USD or 5.4 billion USD deal. You can build 2 more ships with the difference. Also building a ship for 2/3 of the price others do is a proud thing for the defense industry.
Sorry for my ignorance but isn't communicating with submerged underwater platforms is almost impossible? You may not need to control data collection platforms but how would it work for an attack submarine?
I just realized the title of the video. Hakan Kılıç stresses that he isn't asking for Turkey and when Levent Özgül explains why those aircraft aren't good for Turkey shuts him down yet puts a title that says ''wich aircraft should Turkey get instead of F-35 and F-16''. What an...
Over 1 billion USD seems unreasonably high for TF-2000. It would roughly have same cost as a Horizon class FREMM. Shouldn't it be lower at around 800 million range?
Also this thread is becoming a pissing contest between Greek FDI and Istif class.
Hakan Kılıç says USA doesn't sell F-15X to Turkey unless Turkey accept terms like not to use them in operations abroad e.g . Libya and that's why we didn't buy F-15s but instead wanted F-16-Block 70s
Engine technology belongs to companies but if GE wants to sale or license the technology to Turkey they would need state permition right?
This seems reasonable considering such deal would result on Turkey building more than 600 engines for TF-X but wouldn't this mean we will need permition...
So they will replace Barbaros class ships with medium weight frigates and they're not planning to increase the number of frigates. Don't we need to increase both the number of ships and capabilities of ships together for a future aircraft carrier group while also having enough ships for the...