it actually make a lot of sense if you consider Isis is retrated in many villages. And Fsa is heading south pretty fast.This manuaver is about preventing Fsa/Turkish army to reach Raqqa before They do. Since Their attacks towards Raqqa had very little succes. They are afraid Turkey might beat...
Please stop claiming this. It just is impossible to buy any meaningful engine and older design wouldn't do any good. In any case, Tei is already reverse engineered all the the engines used by TuAF. But We currently don't have material science and resources to design/produce engine. Designing...
We dont have almost unlimited military budget of US. If we can invest either fighter jet or tiltrotor. I would go fighter jet everytime. Especially after considering there is literally no customer and user for this machine Since 50s.
I think This isnt anything larger than academic research or small team. Personally This would be such a waste of our limited resources. Tiltrotors are overly complicated and overly expensive. We should invest more immidiate needs and their subsystem in the long run.
Here is aselsan official website that states it is X band;
http://www.aselsan.com.tr/en-us/capabilities/radar-systems/reconnaissance-–-surveillance-radars/sar-synthetic-aperture-radar
Nobody sells their turbojet/turbofan engine design. It is that simple. You can have all the money but that wouldn't happen. Eg; China
RR is offering to build a manufacturing plant in Turkey and They also planning r&d center in Turkey (independent from the deal) . If all the critical Spare part...
...motor arızası nedeniyle, planlanan bölgeye ve mecburi iniş paterni uygulanarak kontrollü iniş yapmıştır. https://t.co/uKadit6Glp
Very successful upside down landing. Flir looks intact. We need to start use local engine, thielert centurion is causing too many problems.
Avl has office in Istanbul with over 100+ really good engineers. I think mostly Istanbul office is gonna help to Tümosan. If Tümosan can pay 20m$, Avl won't be create problem. Mark my word for it.
you know, You have higher chance of being killed in Traffic accident than Terrorist attack even this year in Turkey? Odds are it safer to be in Turkey than US if you look homicide rates :)