buraktunahan
Active member
I guess beggars cannot be choosers, but when the USA has a geopolitical agenda against Turkiye its never a good idea to rely on the British, since its pretty much known here in the UK we do whatever the USA wants.
Turkey's motto is: "If anyone can do anything, I can do it too."
Maybe we'll make that engine a little late on our own. It will be a difficult process. But we'll build that engine eventually. Türkiye sought ways to cooperate with RR to shorten this process. Therefore, even if there is no RR, Türkiye continues on its way. It will take a long time, but eventually Türkiye will make its own engine.
It's always been like that. Years ago, we wanted to buy an armed Predator from the USA, it was not given to us. We started making our own drones 20 years ago. Today we export our own drones to 30 countries. Along with our own developed missiles.
We wanted to buy Patriot from the USA, we couldn't. We bought S400 from Russia. The United States imposed an embargo. We built our own air defense system. (Siper, Hisar, Sungur etc.)
We were building ships, but we couldn't get Harpoon from the USA. We've made an effort for years. We built our own anti-ship missile Atmaca.
Our "ally" USA no longer sells us F-16s or F-35s. He kicked us out of the F-35 project. So we started making Kaan. Hopefully this plane will be made eventually. But on the day this plane was built, we will not forget those who supported us and those who hindered us.