Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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I don't rate Turkish fighter pilots that high tbh. They take too many risks for my taste. Look at their loss rate and their airshow performance. They're lucky they haven't crashed into a group of spectators as of yet but I won't be surprised if such a tragic day will come sooner rather than later...
To be fair, that was due to a rogue pilot taking revenge for previous events by targeting an unarmed F-16 conducting a training sortie in international airspace. And they still proudly brag about it, as the Turks are the ones they gained their independence from.
Do you have more details on this? An article will be great.
That’s a new low. No different than shooting down an airliner. How could they brag about such a thing?
The main problem between Greece and Turkey is that, according to international law, a country can extend its airspace as much as its territorial waters, regardless of whether it's an island nation or not. Greece tries to circumvent this by claiming to be an island country since it has 5,000 islands, even though it also has a mainland.
They also claim a 10-mile airspace (to cut off Turkish access to the Aegean), even though they have only 6-mile territorial waters, which is obviously not recognized on the international stage as it is not lawful. Similarly, they are threatening to extend their territorial waters to 12 miles, which would confine Turkey to the Anatolian mainland in a wartime scenario. This is why Turkey has a long-standing casus belli should this happen.
Funnily enough, right after WW2, the fate of the Agean islands were handed off to the Greeks on the condition that they are under no condition to be militarized. Guess what happened over the next decades?
Anyway, let's move on to the topic at hand:
On October 8th 1996 a Greek Mirage 2000 fired an R.550 Magic II missile at a Turkish F-16D over international airspace. The co-pilot was rescued by the Greeks while the wreckage and the pilot's body were never recovered.
Turkish prosecutors have demanded two aggravated life sentences, but the Greek pilot has obviously become a national hero. This is part of a larger pattern of racism and ethnic cleansing, with the Greeks always being given a free pass as long as their actions are directed against "non-Western, Muslim enemy" ever since the great powers gained their independence from the Ottomans for them.
From the Greek side:
(Mind you, they've given this their own narrative on Wiki <mission over the Aegean when they violated Greek airspace north of Chios> lmao)
Edit: I've now realized that these links don't work? Strange...
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Turkish Aerospace and Spanish companies signed a MoU for the Hürjet under the coordination of Airbus:
@Radonislav @schrage musik
Aselsan dropped their annual activity report of 2024. Some important points:
No idea what GÜRZ 140 will be:
Not seen IRL yet:
For the TP1400?
That's a lot of radars
To be continued
Aselsan dropped their annual activity report of 2024. Some important points:
No idea what GÜRZ 140 will be:
Not seen IRL yet:
For the TP1400?
That's a lot of radars
To be continued
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CENK 350-N is the name of the 4 fixed naval radar first seen on the Indonesian frigate
STR 800-G is the name for the satellite tracking radar
Nothing new on this front
There is more news but I can't be bothered for now. Mostly it's just previous known projects but further along the development, new nomenclature and of course lots of export contracts signed.
STR 800-G is the name for the satellite tracking radar
Nothing new on this front
There is more news but I can't be bothered for now. Mostly it's just previous known projects but further along the development, new nomenclature and of course lots of export contracts signed.