I'm not against the idea of smaller, more affordable AEW&C systems but I think it's going to come in shape of an Akıncı drone or Gökbey helicopter carrying a large non-rotating AESA radar.
Regarding what you said about the uncle sam, yes the relations are poor but we still need their...
if they take nearly a month to publish something, it's fake.
Fake like the 40 beheaded babies.
So? what are we waiting for?
We love announcing our moves before we make them.
Wase is a dog eating chink
Even if China gave them for free, what would we do with them? They aren't compatible with anything we have.
Reallistically speaking Turkey needs F-15Es to replace the F4 Phantom fleet, about 40-50 units would suffice. But the US won't sell them.
And Frankly Turkey...
That's why I said "comparable" not the exact same performance of Gripen-E. I expect there to be significant redesigns but there won't be a Delta wing for example, it will be significantly different.
if the airframe stays the same, it will be more comparable (in kinematic performance) to Gripen...
We can't dedicate engineers to building a stealth variant, No country in the world will do that, it will have to be a Pakistani project but we could happily provide Özgür systems.
Hürjet combat variant will be equipped with an F-414 engine and comparable in performance to Gripen-E. JF-17 could be an option but Chinese engine would be the issue. I don't think TAF will touch that. If Pakistan was making a %100 indigenous fighter down to the engine, that would be different...
I don't dispute any of this, but at the end JF-17 is a supersonic aircraft with more payload capacity then what would fit F-35s internal weapons bays. Unless you're getting a fifth gen aircraft, bigger airframes with more kinematic performance doesn't matter enough to make a real difference
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Doesn't matter.
There's F-5 and there's T-38, there's the T-50 and FA-50. There's the trainer and combat version of all planes in this class. JF-17 itself was offered to Turkey as a trainer back in the day. You're an idiot for not being able to connect the dots. And you're an idiot in general...
You're an uneducated twat. Planned combat version of Hürjet will be in a similiar role as JF-17. or the Korean FA-50 or Gripen
That's not going to happen, but ASELSAN's IRST, EOTS systems as well as Tulgar helmet can be fitted to JF-17s regardless.
Turkey as we know it will be destroyed from inside long before we'll ever have to worry about nuclear weapons lol.
We have a giant castle with thick curtain walls and bastions everywhere and the gates are wide open.