For the moment, I believe so.
Cenk has been in development for a while, before the embargos ...
2022?
Lol, Ismail Demir kept telling Anadolu will be transferred to Navy to continue extended trials by end of 2022 and i have been telling this is not possible even since 2021. Yet alone the 'commissioning' or delivery, what Mr. Demir was referring that Navy taking over.
Any information from friends?You know what, fair enough.
I’ll ask the boys at the “Company“ (wink wink) then
If tb3 can take off and land, Hürkuş could make a first trainer for naval aviation I guess. Sounds more realistic than Hürjet for now.
That's not what Sünnetçi's interview with naval aviation chief suggests.
So first steel cutting will be made during tch Anadolu hand over ceremony!!Within 4 days of the signing of the contract for 3 new I-Class frigates, first steel cutting ceremony will be held for TCG-Izmir.
Sözleşmeden 4 gün sonra: TCG İZMİR'in ilk kaynağı atılacak
MİLGEM İSTİF Sınıfı Firkateyn Projesi kapsamında, sözleşme imzasından yalnızca 4 gün sonra TCG İZMİR (F-516) Firkateyni'nin ilk kaynak töreni gerçekleştirilecekwww.savunmasanayist.com
Hopefully other ships’ steel cutting will follow consecutively as the plan is to deliver all 3 ships within a time frame of 36 months.
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2 AH-1W and S-70B helicopters preparing to take off at the same time on TCG Anadolu.
It would be great to see a longer version of this shot from a helicopter or drone.
It's mostly a sociopolitical thing imo. Big ship = we have something to boast about hahaha, we call it aircraft carrier and masturbate at night thinking about it how big of a ship we got and hope we could even gain some votes before elections thats always a plus side
It does not really make sense otherwise. We have like 7777 things to care before this, but navy and the goverment had huge and unrealistic dreams i dont really blame them, its not in our cultural to act rational and planned, we are mostly fanciful so now we got a big dick LHD and 2 huge ass LSTs. Our m48s cant wait to give it a go hahahah. Imagine you see this huge ass ship and then m48s popping out ahahahaha 10/10 would make day.I thought it was to get know-how in order to build an actual aircraft carrier sometime in the 30s?It's mostly a sociopolitical thing imo. Big ship = we have something to boast about hahaha, we call it aircraft carrier and masturbate at night thinking about it how big of a ship we got and hope we could even gain some votes before elections thats always a plus side
Jokes aside, I dont think when this ship planned to be build they thought our economy is gonna completely crash, we are gonna be ambargoed from all western countries on military sales and stuff, so there is that too. The plus side is at least we builded the ship succesfully in a fairly good time, dont forget it could always be worse. I think it is gonna be useful regardless even for civilian-peace time duties, if we had the ship during earthquake it could really help and also boost the morale sadly she was 2 months late.
LHD project started its life as a LPD project, similar to San Antonio and Type 071. It was still called the "LPD Project" for years after Navantia's Athlas 26000 design was selected. In intervening years design got bigger and bigger and talk of F-35Bs being bought to be employed aboard the ship was started to make it an "aircraft carrier". This doesn't mean they always thought about going with F-35s and the design requires changes on its flight deck to accommodate launching and retrieving F-35Bs in the form of increased resistance to exhaust gasses F-35B would release.
