Türkiye is not the old Türkiye. Look, our defense industry is constantly producing new solutions.Westerners sneering at us with their threats and insults about F-35 is just tired at this point. It's the same energy with EU applicaton. EU one is waaay worse though because we genuinely don't care about that one anymore. After we find our interim solution this F-35 situation will not be that big of a deal anymore, either. It's a great plane, but not worth our independence and honor. Also it's a shackle. We can't defend against greeks with it, we can't use it against PKK. It would just fly on national fetivals so F that.
Personally, I find people who talk endlesly about greek air superiority to be alarmist. We don't build a world class layered air defense system for nothing. Who says it's going to be F-35 vs F-16? What is this a kindergarten karate class? If shit hits the fan, Turkish Armed Forces have the necessary -and very diversified- tools and training to keep those peons away.
One must remember, they got real cocky about 6 months ago. Their generals and strategists were talking about what basically is a decapitation strike. Then Tayfun missile got leaked. I'm sure we got some more stuff hidden.
The Greeks cannot say that you are superior in the air by comparing one-to-one airplane models.
Recently, there was news that ehpod entered the inventory. Now, with the eh pod and sniper or aselpod of our f16 planes attached, what would happen if the opposite plane was f35, what would happen if it was a rafale?
In fact, very soon, when the ehsim fake target is used, if the Greeks fired a meteor missile at our planes, what percentage of them would hit one of our planes?
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