Alternatives ? I told before .
1- Upgrade ourselfs all f16 fighter jets
2- Speed up Kaan 5gen fighter and its engine
3- build large number of CENK & TAYFUN
-Do u think even if we buy f16 will Usa bring them tomorrow? at least not before 2027 while we build Kaan in 2028
And we need alot of money to build our weapons , Frigates , Mildens, drones , SAMs etc etc
I recently saw an interview with Temel Kotil on YouTube.
He said that nothing can be accelerated, new knowledge comes with research, there is no button you press and it comes by itself, it is hard work that costs a lot of time and money.
From the realization of the research of a material to the real test material to test and improve its properties.
It takes time and money to get to the first pre-series product, which is then subjected to a test run over several months or years.
Then comes the test from the government to get approval at all through certificates & co, also over several months & years.
Only then does series production take place, e.g. in the exterior material of an aircraft in the form of composite material or alloys with other materials.
You can't speed things up, either you hire foreign engineers who can speed things up with the risk of espionage or you continue with what you have in terms of human resources.
Now transfer my example to every product in our armed forces that is currently in prototype status.
Let it be engines, thrusters, radar absorbing material, AESA radar, software or ammunition.
These can be totally banal things like a screw that has to withstand extremely strong temperature fluctuations for a short time without the material expanding and contracting again, as is the case with heat and cold, for example.