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Retrofitted with what? Wording gives the impression that we have purchased these planes bare with no options, even those ultimately necessary.As ASFAT, we delivered the second A400M aircraft, which was retrofitted at our FASBAT Retrofit Center in Kayseri, to our Air Force Command on time.
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This will be indeed very good for us and worth signing the contract under those terms but unfortunately, it won't get congress's approval. We need a miracle for this to happen.True but let us be a little bit optimistic and think out loud about another alternative:
Tusas has experience in setting out production line for F16 planes.
Tusas can manufacture all the fuselage and most of the plane if not all.
Tusas has local companies that can manufacture most parts.
TEI/GE will manufacture the engine.
It would be at Lockheed Martin’s interest to contract Tusas to produce our F16s and a portion of it’s current order book of F16s in Turkey. That way get Tusas to produce the planes and have them flown to another site, like Italy, to confirm quality etc, and sell them to Turkey under FMS. (Like they did with the Peaxe Onyx program)
That would cut down the timescale drastically and be cost saving on LM’s part.
Just thinking out loud!!
Source:F-16 ESM/Electronic support (EHPOD) and ECM/EA pod (EHPOD) projects move to the qualification phase. The first pods will probably be delivered this year.
Always have. Greece and the Armenian diaspora is probably the biggest bot user after Russia and China in the world.
Not a single Turkish tourist should go to Greece.These fackers getting shameless now
we need to establish a mini defence pact with Albania, Macedonia, Algeria, Bosnia, Kosovo and possibly Bulgaria. If Greece does those kind of deals with France and Israel, so can we.Not a single Turkish tourist should go to Greece.
Greece should be excluded from all energy projects.
Israeli gas must be brought to Turkey via northern cyprus. Israel's recognition of northern Cyprus should be ensured.
Diplomatic and military relations with the Balkan states should be developed. especially the albania and macedonian army should be strengthened, and military grants should be given if necessary.
Bulgaria should be incited against Greece. Bulgaria always dreams of reaching the Aegean Sea. This plan should be supported. Refugee migration to Greece should be accelerated, the violence of Greece against immigrants should be shown to the whole world.
Greece's support to the PKK terrorist organization, its persecution of refugees and the illegal arming of the Aegean Islands should be expressed on every platform.
We should talk about these issues so much that these unlawful attitudes of Greece should be known by heart by the world.
Every move made by Greece against Turkey must be retaliated with, and it must be shown that dealing with us has a price.
We've already developed RAM paint no? We used them on our subs I think. And this was years ago.
USAF new RAM paint for its F-16CJ (SEAD) Fleet. Claims 30% smaller RCS value.
I think it would be wise for us to develop and use our own RAM paint, maybe with the experience gained through TF-X, on our F-16 Fleet. 30% is not a small difference.
Ibrahim Sunnetci mentions it:We've already developed RAM paint no? We used them on our subs I think. And this was years ago.