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Currently US is treating Turkey like those Arab nations.
They sell F35 and the best military equipment to Israel while those Arabs are receiving 2nd or 3rd grade weapons and yet all these Arab leaders keep kissing US ass..
 
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Currently US is treating Turkey like those Arab nations.
They sell F35 and the best military equipment to Israel while those Arabs are receiving 2nd or 3rd grade weapons

If we don't defend our regional interests we would get F35 yesterday. Its not a simple as you think it is. We are in a geography where we have to compete with american, european, russian and isreali instigations.

BTW both Russia and the USA threatened war against us in the last 5 years alone. But we still pursued our interests. we still won conflicts.

Its not easy geography, imagine your country is the other side of the world to europe and for the last 500 years it was mostly occupied by european powers. Where as the Turks came from one side of Asia and destroyed the roman empire and for a thousand years conquered european lands.

So if they can come to other side of the world and conquer you, can you imagine how difficult it has been for Turkey to survive? To survive in a land that were not even native to?
 

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If we don't defend our regional interests we would get F35 yesterday. Its not a simple as you think it is. We are in a geography where we have to compete with american, european, russian and isreali instigations.

BTW both Russia and the USA threatened war against us in the last 5 years alone. But we still pursued our interests. we still won conflicts.

Its not easy geography, imagine your country is the other side of the world to europe and for the last 500 years it was mostly occupied by european powers. Where as the Turks came from one side of Asia and destroyed the roman empire and for a thousand years conquered european lands.

So if they can come to other side of the world and conquer you, can you imagine how difficult it has been for Turkey to survive? To survive in a land that were not even native to?
If we handled our diplomacy well we could defend our interests and have the planes too without giving US a clean excuse to boot us.
 

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Hüseyin Fazla calculated the cost of the quoted items in the F-16 package. It seems total cost should be no higher than 7 billion. DSMC notice should be no higher than 15 billion something doesn't add up.
There seems to be something wrong in this calculation.
For starters, the AMRAAM C8 is nearly 3million dollars a piece. Germany bought 969 of these for 2.9 billion dollars.


Greek F16 V70 upgrade kits costing them 2.4 billion dollars for 123 sets. That makes it nearly 20 million dollars a piece.


Aim 9X block 2 price is wrong too. In 2012 we bought 117 of these and paid 140 million dollars. Dollar inflation corrected that makes 190 million today. Hence 1.6 million a piece.


So taking Wikipedia prices and calculating a final price would give the wrong image.

Nevertheless , even with the correct “inflated” prices the total cost wouldn’t tally. So there must be other reasons that are not clear to us at the moment. Hopefully it will become clear in the days to come.

But as per @Cabatli_TR ’s posts on the matter, this is not the quantity of equipment we will definitely buy and the amount we will pay. This is the total we “could“ buy.
We need to think, in a way, that we are given a 23 billion dollar credit line to use. How much of it we use is up to us.
 

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Nevertheless , even with the correct “inflated” prices the total cost wouldn’t tally. So there must be other reasons that are not clear to us at the moment. Hopefully it will become clear in the days to come.
As I said before, using numbers from other purchases, while better than using prices from Wikipedia or whatever, is still not really accurate as every country sells weapons at different costs depending on the country, we do this as well.

For example, you said Greece paid about 20 million a piece for F-16 upgrade kit, but on the other hand, US paid around 10 million for them. Morocco on the other hand paid 985 million dollars to upgrade 23 F-16s. So, just in 3 examples, we are talking about anywhere between 10 to 40 million dollars.
 

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I am pretty sure everyone would die to see Murad vs Captor-e ecrs mk2 and SABR
Murad is an unknown entity. And it should stay as one to keep its edge. Being built on GaN based T/R module architecture, logically, it should be superior to the SABR as the latter is built as a compromise unit to fit in to F16 specifically; in terms of size and power consumption, avionics match etc.
Captor-e ECRS-2 radar is a hybrid radar (using both GaAs and GaN T/R modules) and is claimed to become the most powerful GaN based radar in use.
If we could manage to purchase a couple of squadrons of Typhoons with the ECRS-2 fitted, it would prove most useful. These planes are most likely the most capable 4.5 generation planes around at the moment.
 

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In fact, here is a list of everything Morocco got for 4.8 billion in 2019:

The Government of Morocco has requested to buy:
-- twenty-five (25) F-16C/D Block 72 aircraft;
-- twenty-nine (29) engines (Pratt & Whitney F100-229) (includes 4 spares);
-- twenty-six (26) APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars (includes 1 spare);
-- twenty-six (26) Modular Mission Computers (includes 1 spare);
-- twenty-six (26) Link-16 Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems – JTRS (MIDS-JTRS) with TACAN and ESHI Terminals (includes 1 spare);
-- twenty-six (26) LN260 Embedded Global Navigation Systems (EGI) (includes 1 spare);
-- forty (40) Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS) (includes 5 spares);
-- twenty-six (26) Improved Programmable Display Generators (iPDG) (includes 1 spare);
-- thirty (30) M61 Al Vulcan 20mm Guns (includes 5 spares);
-- fifty (50) LAU-129 Multi-Purpose Launchers;
-- forty (40) AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM);
-- forty (40) AIM-120C-7 Guidance Sections;
-- three (3) GBU-38/54 JDAM Tail Kits;
-- fifty (50) MXU-650 Air Foil Group, GBU-49;
-- fifty (50) MAU-210 Enhanced Computer Control Group (CCG), GBU-49,-50;
-- thirty-six (36) FMU-139 D/B Fuzes;
-- six (6) FMU-139 D/B (D-l) Inert Fuzes;
-- two (2) GBU-39 (T-l) GTVs;
-- sixty (60) GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB I);
-- ten (10) MAU-169L/B Computer Control Group, GBU-10, -12, -16;
-- ten (10) MXU-650C/B Air Foil Group, GBU-12;
-- twelve (12) MK82 Bombs, Filled Inert;
-- four (4) BLU-109 Practice Bombs;
-- ten (10) MAU-169 CCG (D-2); and
-- twenty-six (26) AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Pods.

Also included are:
-- twenty-six (26) AN/ALQ-213 EW Management Systems;
-- twenty-six (26) Advanced Identification Friend/Foe;
-- Secure Communications, Cryptographic Precision Navigation Equipment;
-- one (1) Joint Mission Planning System;
-- twenty-six (26) AN/ALQ-211 AIDEWS;
-- six (6) DB-110 Advanced Reconnaissance Systems;
-- communications equipment; spares and repair parts; support equipment; personnel training and training equipment; publications and technical documentation; support and test equipment, simulators; integration and test; U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical and logistical support services; and other related elements of logistics and program support.

The estimated cost is $3.787 billion. And on top of these purchases were the upgrade kits for 985 million dollars.
 

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talk with the germanzzzz.
Regarding Turkiye having an interest in procuring Eurofighter, Erdogan does not seem to know how to talk to Germany unless you deem that launching into a tirade about Israel when giving a speech in Germany is an example of knowing how to talk to Germany.

By the way, I think that both Israel and Hamas should answer to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity due to their actions since October 7th last year. Standards of behaviour apply to all, not just to the side one opposes.
 
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By the way, the Greek cost of 40 F-35s is not 9 billion dollars, but at least 40 billion dollars over life cycle. This 40B does not include infrastructure, ground service equipment, documentation and training. The ceiling-price written to the Congress was found high by all of us. but when making the comparison, there is a weird propaganda on social media, as if the TAF will pay 20 billion for 40 naked jets while the F-35s only cost 8 billion for the Greek side.

This type of sales is not a new practice for Greece, of course, the Greek I linked below has explained the same thing in detail, even giving a few examples.



The present government, in order to show reduced costs for this particular supply, is following the path of previous governments by buying unarmed defence systems ! That is, it buys unarmed F-35s for parades and not for air combat!

The Greek Armed Forces have traumatic experience from the recent past:

- In 2000 the pzh guns were purchased without yet (24 years later) having acquired the 40km range missiles which was the reason for the procurement of this system.
- In 2002 the leopard-2 tanks were purchased without ammunition!
- In 2003, the ultra-modern submarines T Papanikolis were purchased, which after 20 years (they have exceeded the middle of their life span) still do not have the corresponding torpedoes!
- In 2005 the F-16s were purchased and the issue of self-protection of the F16s has not yet been resolved despite their upgrade to vipers.

The offer (LOA) coming from the US for the F-35 will NOT include new weapons because Athens simply did not ask for them to show lower costs, unlike Turkiye's corresponding request for the F16 which includes a long list of weapons systems.

Also despite the promises and announcements of the Defense Minister to strengthen the domestic defense industry the LOA coming to Athens from the US does not include any industrial returns (once called AO) because they have not been requested by the Greek side ! As a result Greece is not demanding any co-production or participation in any level of F-35 maintenance.

The cost of repair and maintenance of the "completely free" LCS frigates is prohibitive
As far as the "completely free" acquisition of frigates from the US is concerned, the reality is quite different.

The "coastal trawlers" (LCS) that...generously provided by the US, have already been deconstructed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Michael Gilday during his testimony to Congress: "I refuse - he said - to pay an extra dollar to a system that could not detect a high-tech submarine in today's environment. An LCS is as noisy as an aircraft carrier."

But U.S. Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith has also said of LCSs, "We can't use them. First, because they can't do anything. Second, when they do operate they continue to fail. Their propulsion apparatus has been found to be unreliable."

The US in their effort to get rid of the LCS are trying to convince the Greek Navy that they are amenable to improvement interventions, the cost of which is some tens of millions of dollars that certainly exceed 50 million ! In addition to these costs, the maintenance costs must be added, which are considered unbearable as it is estimated that they correspond to more than one time of the total operational costs of the Navy.
 
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By the way, the Greek cost of 40 F-35s is not 9 billion dollars, but at least 40 billion dollars over life cycle. This does not include infrastructure, ground service equipment, documentation and training. The ceiling-price written to the Congress was found high by all of us. but when making the comparison, there is a weird propaganda on social media, as if the TAF will pay 20 billion for 40 naked jets while the F-35s only cost 8 billion for the Greek side.

This type of sales is not a new practice for Greece, of course, the Greek I linked below has explained the same thing in detail, even giving a few examples.



The present government, in order to show reduced costs for this particular supply, is following the path of previous governments by buying unarmed defence systems ! That is, it buys unarmed F-35s for parades and not for air combat!

The Greek Armed Forces have traumatic experience from the recent past:

- In 2000 the pzh guns were purchased without yet (24 years later) having acquired the 40km range missiles which was the reason for the procurement of this system.
- In 2002 the leopard-2 tanks were purchased without ammunition!
- In 2003, the ultra-modern submarines T Papanikolis were purchased, which after 20 years (they have exceeded the middle of their life span) still do not have the corresponding torpedoes!
- In 2005 the F-16s were purchased and the issue of self-protection of the F16s has not yet been resolved despite their upgrade to vipers.

The offer (LOA) coming from the US for the F-35 will NOT include new weapons because Athens simply did not ask for them to show lower costs, unlike Turkiye's corresponding request for the F16 which includes a long list of weapons systems.

Also despite the promises and announcements of the Defense Minister to strengthen the domestic defense industry the LOA coming to Athens from the US does not include any industrial returns (once called AO) because they have not been requested by the Greek side ! As a result Greece is not demanding any co-production or participation in any level of F-35 maintenance.

The cost of repair and maintenance of the "completely free" LCS frigates is prohibitive
As far as the "completely free" acquisition of frigates from the US is concerned, the reality is quite different.

The "coastal trawlers" (LCS) that...generously provided by the US, have already been deconstructed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Michael Gilday during his testimony to Congress: "I refuse - he said - to pay an extra dollar to a system that could not detect a high-tech submarine in today's environment. An LCS is as noisy as an aircraft carrier."

But U.S. Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith has also said of LCSs, "We can't use them. First, because they can't do anything. Second, when they do operate they continue to fail. Their propulsion apparatus has been found to be unreliable."

The US in their effort to get rid of the LCS are trying to convince the Greek Navy that they are amenable to improvement interventions, the cost of which is some tens of millions of dollars that certainly exceed 50 million ! In addition to these costs, the maintenance costs must be added, which are considered unbearable as it is estimated that they correspond to more than one time of the total operational costs of the Navy.

9.4 Billion are the flyaway cost. So meaning no maintanence included, no armaments included, no infrastructure included, and the most important no training included. Add those costs on top and the sale would top out around 12-13 Billion dollars for 40 planes, depending on how many missiles and bombs they buy and which "tier" of maintanance package they order from LM. 1000 C8 Missiles alone would cost them 3 billion dollars.

It is also laughable that the greeks expected any industrial participation. They don't have the necessary sophistication to add anything to the F-35 program other than maybe deliver a panel here or there, if even that. If the americans trust them even with that, lets not forget Greece has a history of leaking military secrets to the Russians.

The LCS transfer is straight up just a scam from the Americans. They are gonna give them those ships "free" and then have them on the hook for decades of maintanance costs as well as MLU. All those they will be bound to order from the americans, maintanance duh cause no one else on the planet operates those shitcans. So "free" suddenly becomes over the next decade a 1-2 billion dollar investment into ships they don't need and that don't even work and if they do are pretty much useless in the modern combat theatre.

They are getting I believe free engines for their P-3 Orions which they actually wanted to replace but due to budget reasons decided to "modernize".

And the 2 C-130 are second hand aircrafts from the USAF inventory.

So If we actually take objective look here, it looks more like the Americans told the greeks "hey you wants this toy? How about you also take of 4 of those shitcans we don't want to use anymore cause they are useless and a moneypit of our hands too, huh how about it? *wink wink*"

The 40 number is nothing more than propaganda by Mitsotakis, pretty much a "Hey look we are buying FOURTY of those expansive jets, aren't we STRONG!"

In reality they will most likely order in the first place 12-16.

I expect them in the end to pay around 7-8 billion dollars for 12-16 planes+service+armaments.

Funny thing is since we left the program, or rather were kicked out the price of one F-35 went from 70-80 to now 200+ M for the greeks. But kicking us out had no negative effects am I right?
 

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Regarding Turkiye having an interest in procuring Eurofighter, Erdogan does not seem to know how to talk to Germany unless you deem that launching into a tirade about Israel when giving a speech in Germany is an example of knowing how to talk to Germany.

By the way, I think that both Israel and Hamas should answer to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity due to their actions since October 7th last year. Standards of behaviour apply to all, not just to the side one opposes.


You are saying that Turkey is the problem? What should Turkey talk about pkk with Germany? Israel is not the problem..


 

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By the way, the Greek cost of 40 F-35s is not 9 billion dollars, but at least 40 billion dollars over life cycle. This 40B does not include infrastructure, ground service equipment, documentation and training. The ceiling-price written to the Congress was found high by all of us. but when making the comparison, there is a weird propaganda on social media, as if the TAF will pay 20 billion for 40 naked jets while the F-35s only cost 8 billion for the Greek side.

This type of sales is not a new practice for Greece, of course, the Greek I linked below has explained the same thing in detail, even giving a few examples.



The present government, in order to show reduced costs for this particular supply, is following the path of previous governments by buying unarmed defence systems ! That is, it buys unarmed F-35s for parades and not for air combat!

The Greek Armed Forces have traumatic experience from the recent past:

- In 2000 the pzh guns were purchased without yet (24 years later) having acquired the 40km range missiles which was the reason for the procurement of this system.
- In 2002 the leopard-2 tanks were purchased without ammunition!
- In 2003, the ultra-modern submarines T Papanikolis were purchased, which after 20 years (they have exceeded the middle of their life span) still do not have the corresponding torpedoes!
- In 2005 the F-16s were purchased and the issue of self-protection of the F16s has not yet been resolved despite their upgrade to vipers.

The offer (LOA) coming from the US for the F-35 will NOT include new weapons because Athens simply did not ask for them to show lower costs, unlike Turkiye's corresponding request for the F16 which includes a long list of weapons systems.

Also despite the promises and announcements of the Defense Minister to strengthen the domestic defense industry the LOA coming to Athens from the US does not include any industrial returns (once called AO) because they have not been requested by the Greek side ! As a result Greece is not demanding any co-production or participation in any level of F-35 maintenance.

The cost of repair and maintenance of the "completely free" LCS frigates is prohibitive
As far as the "completely free" acquisition of frigates from the US is concerned, the reality is quite different.

The "coastal trawlers" (LCS) that...generously provided by the US, have already been deconstructed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Michael Gilday during his testimony to Congress: "I refuse - he said - to pay an extra dollar to a system that could not detect a high-tech submarine in today's environment. An LCS is as noisy as an aircraft carrier."

But U.S. Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith has also said of LCSs, "We can't use them. First, because they can't do anything. Second, when they do operate they continue to fail. Their propulsion apparatus has been found to be unreliable."

The US in their effort to get rid of the LCS are trying to convince the Greek Navy that they are amenable to improvement interventions, the cost of which is some tens of millions of dollars that certainly exceed 50 million ! In addition to these costs, the maintenance costs must be added, which are considered unbearable as it is estimated that they correspond to more than one time of the total operational costs of the Navy.

No way it's 40 billion USD for the total deal. I remember doing a little bit of research in the past regarding the cost of the acquisition of the F-35, as well as equipment, and infrastructure costs. I found a number between 200-300 million USD per F-35 including maintenance, equipment, and infrastructure cost.


note: maintenance and personnel training is included in the 8.6 billion USD figure.
 

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Guys,its not about what we pay for what but why we pay it.
It is a balance issue.
All this talk about paying to much for getting nothing is bs.
This is a well orchestrated scenario for an interim ''decade'' of the TurAF.
Just enough to deter any enemies until our domestic platforms are ready.
Simple as that.
 

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You are saying that Turkey is the problem? What should Turkey talk about pkk with Germany? Israel is not the problem..


You are putting words in my mouth. Why did President Erdogan go to Germany? Was it not in the hope of persuading Germany to lift the block on EF export to Turkiye? How well did President Erdogan choose his words in seeking to reach that objective? Let me know if he succeeded in reaching his objective.
 

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You are putting words in my mouth. Why did President Erdogan go to Germany? Was it not in the hope of persuading Germany to lift the block on EF export to Turkiye? How well did President Erdogan choose his words in seeking to reach that objective? Let me know if he succeeded in reaching his objective.

EF was exclusively made by the British.

Most of it comes from Britain even the Prototypes were made in Britain.

It was pretty stupid of the UK to allow Germany have a hand in the EF. Now its costing you sales thanks to the Germans chucking a hissy fit.
 

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If it was for me i will buy some 220 j10c Fighters together with 240 f16 will bring Turkiye at top airforce. Aslo steath aircraft dont play so much role agasit 4+ aircrafts that country have too many aircrafts ,
- lets take a example Turkiye vs Greece 450 4+ gen vs 100 f35 . The war happened so Greece will bomb Turkiye with F35 steath.
But most Turkish industial military complex are in around Ankara 700km from sea of islands .
So greek sends 12 F35 steath to bomb the complex at kirikkale others to protect greek airspace and chances are 50/50 to success without spotting, There are so many radars and aircrafts around . Lets take that 12 greek F35 success to bomb kirikkale but they need to turn back alive
which will take at least 35 minutes to safe zone . So Turkiye with 450 fighter aircraft has at least 30 fighters anytime patroling around . At least 10 of them close to ankara so How the hell those 12 F35 will get back to grecce safe ? Patroling J10/f16 will be for 3 minutes there and will spot F35 . Putting other air force at costal area on alert and soon 12 F35 will find themself sorrounded by 50 4+ fighters just 5-100 km away of them ?! They all will shoot down and F35 dogfight is terrible.
So F35 is good just with weak countries launching Stand Off weapons from sea of island to Turkish Coast . That mission can aslo 4+ aircraft do .
Thats why i always say quantity over quality and ww2 proved it .
 

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If it was for me i will buy some 220 j10c Fighters together with 240 f16 will bring Turkiye at top airforce. Aslo steath aircraft dont play so much role agasit 4+ aircrafts that country have too many aircrafts ,
- lets take a example Turkiye vs Greece 450 4+ gen vs 100 f35 . The war happened so Greece will bomb Turkiye with F35 steath.
But most Turkish industial military complex are in around Ankara 700km from sea of islands .
So greek sends 12 F35 steath to bomb the complex at kirikkale others to protect greek airspace and chances are 50/50 to success without spotting, There are so many radars and aircrafts around . Lets take that 12 greek F35 success to bomb kirikkale but they need to turn back alive
which will take at least 35 minutes to safe zone . So Turkiye with 450 fighter aircraft has at least 30 fighters anytime patroling around . At least 10 of them close to ankara so How the hell those 12 F35 will get back to grecce safe ? Patroling J10/f16 will be for 3 minutes there and will spot F35 . Putting other air force at costal area on alert and soon 12 F35 will find themself sorrounded by 50 4+ fighters just 5-100 km away of them ?! They all will shoot down and F35 dogfight is terrible.
So F35 is good just with weak countries launching Stand Off weapons from sea of island to Turkish Coast . That mission can aslo 4+ aircraft do .
Thats why i always say quantity over quality and ww2 proved it .

Seriously, which Air Force school did you graduate from?
 
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