landslide victory for Erdogan, time to seal the deal.
China won Turkey's missile defense competition
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landslide victory for Erdogan, time to seal the deal.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
the Kurds seem to be pretty much in control of northern Iraq, and unless Bagdad were to suddenly go brain dead they seem to be more bark then bite.over the affair likely realizing that if they don't play ball they won't get a cut of the profits. The Iraqi PM made a speech but other than that notta.
As to the missile deal I think its dead.
That would be good news. NATO system is more expensive. Chinese deal is cheaper, allows co-production so Turkish engineer might gain some good insight and jobs. Turkey can be a bit more independent, in long term and not necessarily depending on 1 weapon system. Of course, this depend on Turkey. What's free market anyway? It's not a free market if you can't choose.
Equation
Lieutenant General
True, but...if it were a true "free market" than half of the world would be possessing nuclear weapons in their arsenal by now. Not exactly a peaceful and comfortable world in my view.
Blackstone
Brigadier
And just how peaceful and comfortable Ukraine, Syria, and Libya feel? No doubt Iran and North Korea are glad they never gave up their nuclear weapons/research.
Actually, anyone can buy one or build one...but it's the problem of testing. Even you have one, testing it is another matter. It takes huge organization, effort, secure environment and facing the wrath of other nuclear states when you set off 1. No nation is big enough, have the place and guts, technical capability to do these test except very few nation.
Take for example, Singapore, rich enough, let say Singapore bought one from the black market, a dirty bomb of Korean make, or US supply them for free. Somehow they got it, as it's a buyers market. Now where should Singapore test them? and what implication to announce they have it. Sure, they could threaten some countries but how they deliver the A-Bom to a country like India? When you have the bom, you have to have the means to deliver it to make your threat. And what can a single piece of bomb do...it only takes 1 to wipe out Singapore from the map, but you need very many to wipe out India. Size matter.
Japan also cannot simple test them, they have no place. Fukushima already giving them radioactive headache, they probably test it in the pacific. But what implication this bring to her potential enemies...it makes it fair game Japan can be retarget by nuclear weapon by bigger state like China.
Equation
Lieutenant General
So you will feel better if WMD under the hands of terrorists groups after a regime change in (__insert country__)?
That may be indeed the case.
FarkTypeSoldier
Junior Member
So the bid is extending to 31 Apr 14? In just a few days time. But there is no 31st Apr??? Is it a hoax?