Nobody can "safely predict" that, but the 3 musketeers (Aksit, Demiroglu and Gorgun) all sound optimistic about it. Aksit himself said it won't take as long as the F135 or God forbid, the EJ200.
In this chaotic world, small countries buy jets from multiple separate sources will become increasingly common. They're considering more of cross political protection, rather than weapons' integration or logistic complexity. Cross political protection means they're less likely to be attacked, aka look more neutral, when one side launches a war against another side. These countries don't want to choose solely on any side politically, so does their military equipment. So don't feel too strange/confused on this.
Here's Ayi's view. More and more countries are going to have eastern & western major weapons simultaneously. Meanwhile, Egypt & Indonesia, are expected to collect the most diversified jets of all !!
Too bad this won't happen next week.
He's just making it up. Do you really think he'd give us confidential information? Moreover, I don't see any provisionally allocated space required to install side radar arrays. Nor have we had any leaks pointing to anything like that.
There will be flank radars
"Meanwhile, Demiroğlu painted a bleak picture for the stalled T-70 Black Hawk helicopter programme. Sanctions imposed under CAATSA have blocked kit transfers for 71 remaining helicopters, with only 38 delivered so far. “There is movement, but not forward. It is up and down,” he said."
