Well, they prolly made a typing mistake. Reuters is talking about $20 billion which we've heard before so it doesn't come as a surprise.
Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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What the Turks want:
800 PGMs seem like a token number seeing that Turkish annual production is ramping up to more than 5000. What is the most interesting in this is the amount of air-to-air missiles. Never have the Turks gotten so many of these missiles. We are prolly looking at a ratio of 2 AIM-120C8 for every AIM-9X for a total of 600 AIM-120 and 300 AIM-9.
The TurAF has received only 252 AIM-120C7 and 224 AIM-9X thus far. If the Americans approve of so many BVR missiles to be exported, then I'm sure they'll sell the F-35 to the Greeks to maintain the balance.
$20 billion is a mind-boggling amount for a 50 year old airframe and its munition...
800 PGMs seem like a token number seeing that Turkish annual production is ramping up to more than 5000. What is the most interesting in this is the amount of air-to-air missiles. Never have the Turks gotten so many of these missiles. We are prolly looking at a ratio of 2 AIM-120C8 for every AIM-9X for a total of 600 AIM-120 and 300 AIM-9.
The TurAF has received only 252 AIM-120C7 and 224 AIM-9X thus far. If the Americans approve of so many BVR missiles to be exported, then I'm sure they'll sell the F-35 to the Greeks to maintain the balance.
$20 billion is a mind-boggling amount for a 50 year old airframe and its munition...
I find it hilarious that they used an R-27 for the missile picture, typical intern stuff.What the Turks want:
800 PGMs seem like a token number seeing that Turkish annual production is ramping up to more than 5000. What is the most interesting in this is the amount of air-to-air missiles. Never have the Turks gotten so many of these missiles. We are prolly looking at a ratio of 2 AIM-120C8 for every AIM-9X for a total of 600 AIM-120 and 300 AIM-9.
The TurAF has received only 252 AIM-120C7 and 224 AIM-9X thus far. If the Americans approve of so many BVR missiles to be exported, then I'm sure they'll sell the F-35 to the Greeks to maintain the balance.
$20 billion is a mind-boggling amount for a 50 year old airframe and its munition...
That is an inflated price, the real sum is going to be considerably lower although not cheap at all.What the Turks want:
800 PGMs seem like a token number seeing that Turkish annual production is ramping up to more than 5000. What is the most interesting in this is the amount of air-to-air missiles. Never have the Turks gotten so many of these missiles. We are prolly looking at a ratio of 2 AIM-120C8 for every AIM-9X for a total of 600 AIM-120 and 300 AIM-9.
The TurAF has received only 252 AIM-120C7 and 224 AIM-9X thus far. If the Americans approve of so many BVR missiles to be exported, then I'm sure they'll sell the F-35 to the Greeks to maintain the balance.
$20 billion is a mind-boggling amount for a 50 year old airframe and its munition...
Still, I'm of the opinion that Turkey should've pulled the request back than to be ridiculed this much for this long.
Even if the deal goes through, the aircraft won't become available until too late and Kaan was always supposed to continue at its own pace much like any other next gen fighter development programs, i.e. not according to gap-filler needs of TurAF.
They should've gone for the Eurofighter instead. Had they too ridiculed Turkey, then all Turkey should've done is to grit its teeth and bear it until its their time to ridicule them back.
It'll be a tough decade for TurAF. There isn't a single border Turkey shares that isn't in trouble and Greece has really been arming itself for a quick punch against Turkey for a while now. As soon as this F-16 request is sent to Congress, they'll pass the F-35s for Greece to tip the scales even further.
Those fellows have always been warmongerers whenever the balance of air power in the region favoured them. Coincidentally there has only been wind of peace when the power balance was even. Coincidence? I THINK NOT! (Insert thos meme here)
Anyway, what the Americans have been doing is simply put playing with fire and it won't result in anything good for anyone.
At least that's my two cents regarding this topic.
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So it's a rolling chassis presently and not a flying one ? When the Block-10 prototype will be ready ?
If it's clearly just a rolling chassis... it look like an election PR stunt.
It has always been a ground test article (and a tech demonstrator). It is not a PR stunt. You could see that if you'd look at old project timelines.
It's just that at some point two years ago, they had figured flying it earlier could be useful to shorten the development.
Anyway, it happens. Even the maiden flight of that Anka- III drone got delayed by almost a full year but it eventually flew. It's always better to make sure nothing goes wrong than to rush everything.
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