India HAL Tejas Program

[IC3M@N FX]

Yeah the courage will come automatically when you are in NATO and the chance of you fighting a peer war is almost zero. Come to the subcontinent where your neighbors are a revisionist superpower with 5th gen aircraft and almost neer peer adversary. You cannot have luxury of doing science projects. You want stuff that is the best and if you dont have it buy it from some one else and replace it later.

Are you really serious? Turkey waged war against the PKK and its affiliated groups for more than 30–40 years; for several decades, these groups were supported by the West in order to contain Turkey and keep it below the threshold of total escalation—to control it, slow it down, and keep its sovereignty slightly unstable.
We were blocked and sanctioned multiple times, for more than 40–50 years by Europe and the U.S.; in the arms industry, they wouldn’t even sell us defense systems like air defense.
We are rivals of Germany, France, Greece/Cyprus, Israel, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, and to some extent Saudi Arabia; this goes so far that they even confirm it in their own strategy papers and think tanks.
We were sanctioned technologically and economically....
What are you talking about?

 

[dronie]

Are you really serious? Turkey waged war against the PKK and its affiliated groups for more than 30–40 years; for several decades, these groups were supported by the West in order to contain Turkey and keep it below the threshold of total escalation—to control it, slow it down, and keep its sovereignty slightly unstable.
We were blocked and sanctioned multiple times, for more than 40–50 years by Europe and the U.S.; in the arms industry, they wouldn’t even sell us defense systems like air defense.
We are rivals of Germany, France, Greece/Cyprus, Israel, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, and to some extent Saudi Arabia; this goes so far that they even confirm it in their own strategy papers and think tanks.
We were sanctioned technologically and economically....
What are you talking about?

A ragtag miltia vs 2 nuclear powers. Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby type comparison