Is this navalized helicopter is in the same room with us? We are not talking about future T625Ns for navy, we are talking about civilian T625s that were produced at least 2 years ago and are yet to be delivered to gendarme. We first saw J-6001 in 2022. A 2 year delay for a serial production aircraft is not nothing. This aircraft was to be delivered to gendarme in Q1 2023, which was already a delayed date, because first 3 T625s were to be delivered to gendarme in 2022. Going even further, originally first delivery was to be made in Q4 2021, which was later updated to 1 T625 by H2 2022, which was later revised to first delivery in Q1 2023, then revised to Q4 2023, and we currently do not have any dates.
"The first batch of 3 helicopters is expected to be delivered in 2022. The delivery date for the T625 GÖKBEY was previously planned as October 29, 2021, which was later updated as 'mid-2022'."
TUSAŞ Genel Müdürü ve CEO’su Temel KOTİL, sosyal medya hesabı Twitter’dan 17 Mayıs 2022 tarihinde yaptığı bir paylaşım ile ilk uçuşunu yapan 4’üncü GÖKBEY prototipinin icra edilen test uçuşları sırasında çekilmiş kareleri takipçileriyle paylaştı ve ekledi, “Gece gündüz demeden çalışan tüm...
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"Kotil announced that they will deliver the first GÖKBEY helicopter to the Gendarmerie General Command towards the end of 2022."
TUSAŞ, 2022 yılında Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı'na 3 adet GÖKBEY genel maksat helikopteri teslim edecek
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I get that you like to be optimistic and usually take the words from appointees as gospel, but there's a fine line between being optimistic and too optimistic for his
own good. I guess I'll be the bad guy again, but that's fine. There are some big delays in this program for the last 3 years and we don't know the cause of those delays because like rest of the media, most of the defence media is also just a bunch of propagandists that are too scared of asking questions for the fear of being put out of the ecosystem and losing their access. Those that do question things are shunned and forced to stay away, being called traitors even for asking questions. So all we get is continuous delays and revised delivery dates with no accountability whatsoever while we are hurting heavily for utility helicopters and our pilots still use UH-1s.