TR Air Forces|News & Discussion

[Ripley]

I'll eat haggis for a week if he approves it.

Haud yer wheesht McTavish! Curse yaeerrr mouth

 

[Yasar_TR]

No mention about the version of EF2000 ? which tranche, i suppose it's TR 4.
they just started on the German 54 tranche 4 order, Spain has additional orders too like 45 +, best case scenario, the germans somehow give the go, i assume at least a year and a half of contract negotiations. i don't see how we get those birds before 2028 - 2030 for the 40 jets.

Eurofighter consortium sees up to 200 aircraft sales over next 2 years - Breaking Defense

Gaincarlo Mezzanatto, CEO of the Eurofighter Typhoon consortium, talked about potential sales to Spain and, after a recent meeting, Poland, among others.

breakingdefense.com

For quick introduction, couple of squadrons of the Tranche-1 upgraded to Tranche-2 to partial 3 set up would actually be the way to go. These planes in majority have already been configured for air to ground missions for the RAF any way.
But to make it simpler to see, below is a list of Typhoon tranches with different capabilities.

Whence configured to Tranche-2 or above the planes can fire amraam, meteor and storm shadow missiles.
Germany is upgrading all of its Tranche 2 planes with e-scan Aesa radar. So once upgraded to tranche 2 configuration with some TR-3 equipment, the GFR4 RAF Typhoons can have Aesa radar too; albeit at a cost.

 

[Ecderha]

Then this news was true

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725143818813513888

I really, really LoL on people here that still ignoring last 10+ years of history related to usa, germany, netherland,france etc...
They are systematically hostile against Turkiye on all matters. They say it, They do it.
Some people here are naive - They like to lie themself.
usa president (germany premier) will bypass own Hostile political behavior toward Turkiye and allow military product to be procured

 

[Ripley]

For quick introduction, couple of squadrons of the Tranche-1 upgraded to Tranche-2 to partial 3 set up would actually be the way to go. These planes in majority have already been configured for air to ground missions for the RAF any way.
But to make it simpler to see, below is a list of Typhoon tranches with different capabilities.

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Whence configured to Tranche-2 or above the planes can fire amraam, meteor and storm shadow missiles.
Germany is upgrading all of its Tranche 2 planes with e-scan Aesa radar. So once upgraded to tranche 2 configuration with some TR-3 equipment, the GFR4 RAF Typhoons can have Aesa radar too; albeit at a cost.

A while back, Typhoons were on the table by the British
and they were simply eager to dump their T1 aircraft on us (about forty, iirc) without any upgrade or even selling them with upgrade kits, probably because the fear of a German veto.
So, now are we gonna buy those forty T1?
If we buy them, will they let us reconfigure/upgrade them T2 and gradually T3?

 

[Afif]

A while back, Typhoons were on the table by the British
and they were simply eager to dump their T1 aircraft on us (about forty, iirc) without any upgrade or even selling them with upgrade kits, probably because the fear of a German veto.
So, now are we gonna buy those forty T1?
If we buy them, will they let us reconfigure/upgrade them T2 and gradually T3?

24, not 40 I think.
Also, there was an infromal offer to BAF iirc.

 

[Ripley]

24, not 40 I think.
Also, there was an infromal offer to BAF iirc.

Again, it was a while ago and it was one of the items that were on the table. The exact numbers may have missed me. This was a meeting/series of meetings between two governments headed by their respective defense ministers and honestly don’t remember who offered what to whom.

 

[Yasar_TR]

A while back, Typhoons were on the table by the British
and they were simply eager to dump their T1 aircraft on us (about forty, iirc) without any upgrade or even selling them with upgrade kits, probably because the fear of a German veto.
So, now are we gonna buy those forty T1?
If we buy them, will they let us reconfigure/upgrade them T2 and gradually T3?

There are 52 tranche-1 planes UK has got . They are all to be gradually retired. All of them can be upgraded to Tranche 2/3 configuration at a cost. Whether Germany has any say on the sale of planes, now owned by RAF is a matter of debate. It has been mentioned that there is a clause in the consortium agreement that no one country should be able to stop another from achieving a sale. But in the case of new planes, since a good deal of engine and body parts are manufactured in Germany, they can stop shipment of those parts if and when it is decided by the German government. This means those parts will have to be manufactured by the remaining 3 nations, which will make it too expensive as they are not geared to do so. But for an already manufactured and sold plane it should be a different case. The only problem being the upgrading to Tranche 2/3 configuration, if must be done by Eurojet GMBH, then it is a handicap to be overcome. (But as they say if there is a will there is a way; UK can get Eurojet to do the upgrades, then sell them to us)

 

[Afif]

There is good possibility in case of Typhoon sale to Türkiye, France can block the sale of Meteor. Could UK sale Meteor from RAF inventory too? Will RAF agree to it?

 

[Nutuk]

I hope Germany blocks EF2000 with whole my heart.

At least Germans would disable Turkiye to make idiotic moves

 

[Bozan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725590341305126963

Given the speech Erdogan just gave in Germany insulting Germans and Scholz, I would not expect good will

 

[ClaudeJ]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725590341305126963

Given the speech Erdogan just gave in Germany insulting Germans and Scholz, I would tvexoect good will

Where is the insulting speech?

I felt the good evening and a good night whishes quite heartwarming.

Too bad the football game was deemed too risky to attend to.

 

[Bozan]

Where is the insulting speech?

I felt the good evening and a good night whishes quite heartwarming.

Too bad the football game was deemed too risky to attend to.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725571118306640173

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725576997517304281

He made a looot of statements like this and praised Hamas as liberators

 

[Afif]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725571118306640173

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725576997517304281

He made a looot of statements like this

Did he say that while standing there?

 

[Bozan]

Did say that while standing there?

Right next to Scholz, in front of Germany

 

[ClaudeJ]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725571118306640173

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725576997517304281

He made a looot of statements like this and praised Hamas as liberators

An actual part of his speech, not a retweet.

Erdogan says he is leading fight against anti-Semitism | AFP

Still, nothing to do with the Typhoon deal, though.

 

[BalkanTurk90]

Can Germany aslo block the deal with UK if Turkiye buy UK used typhoons one ? and modernise them after?

 

[godel44]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725571118306640173

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1725576997517304281

He made a looot of statements like this and praised Hamas as liberators

Where is the insult?

 

[Bozan]

Where is the insult?

Germans are very sensitive about the Holocaust, especially in politics, Erdogan constantly bringing it up is going to upset them, especially saying that they are under a debt to Israel

 

[godel44]

Germans are very sensitive about the Holocaust, especially in politics, Erdogan constantly bringing it up is going to upset them, especially saying that they are under a debt to Israel

That's not an insult and it's highly relevant to the subject.

 

[Bozan]

That's not an insult and it's highly relevant to the subject.

The Germans will decide if it's an insult, we shall see. I think it's likely though