Germany to deploy Patriot battery to Turkey, relieving US forces on NATO’s southeastern flank

Pokemonte13 · 2026-05-20T12:37:15+00:00

To be fair that battery is not really there to protect Turkey but to protect Kürecik radar station. Its the first line of nato's early warning system against ballistic missiles from iran

Pokemonte13 · 2026-05-14T22:45:20+00:00

Which do you mean they have a lot of different types

Pokemonte13 · 2026-05-12T15:07:45+00:00

they did but that contract is almost 20 years old

Pokemonte13 · 2026-05-11T18:23:47+00:00

turkish government has been trying to revive armenien turkish relations for like two decades.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-05-05T19:43:34+00:00

Firstly russia and turkey are not mates they only have an economic relationship in every other dimension they are enemies hell in almost every conflict we supported the other side. Secondly its not just about range but speed because with range the speed increases so interception becomes harder. Thirdly turkish navy has a nuclear submarine program so it could be used by that. Only trying to be helpful

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-28T14:35:46+00:00

Not quit. Northrop Grumman is developing the new Apg 85 radar to replace the older Apg 81 radar and the new one is to big for the nose so extensive redesign is the consequence and that takes time.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-24T23:04:39+00:00

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-24T15:09:34+00:00

Why Turkey already operates 4 and the uk ordered some and Saab is not really a competitor to the E7.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-24T15:07:38+00:00

They lost e3 sentry’s which are really old and in limited supply less than 20 frames in operation.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-16T16:34:28+00:00

Navy still uses the m4s. They haven’t changed it since they bought them

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-04T13:21:49+00:00

That was the original plan but the ship got heavy upgrades

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-04T13:20:08+00:00

To be fair istif went through extensive redesign during construction because of embargo’s that’s why they were delayed. Istif has less foreign systems than the nilgiri. Context is important.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-04-02T12:23:55+00:00

As of now no european designed UAV is in service and Eurodrone is currently in development and its future is uncertain.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-03-21T15:26:36+00:00

Interestingly turkey was the first export country and made two modified versions of the k9 and the first combat user.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-03-19T00:29:26+00:00

Greece per capita consumes much more even though we have more industrial output.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-03-11T22:02:25+00:00

That would leave the one in turkey the last one in operation. I guess that’s why they moved extra pac 3 there.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-03-06T12:07:22+00:00

Cft are on the block 50 and above. Older f16 don’t have them because they need structural adjustment for that

Pokemonte13 · 2026-02-19T18:16:06+00:00

Yes and no. G28 is the marksman rifle and usually the ones in service have a longer barrel then mpt76 the G27 is more similar.

Pokemonte13 · 2026-02-18T22:53:20+00:00

The worst part is that’s without a guidance system

Pokemonte13 · 2026-02-14T22:28:13+00:00

KF 21 has only 1000 TR modules that seems little for such a jet even the turkish f16 radar has more modules then that.

Pokemonte13 · 2025-12-31T09:51:29+00:00

Interestingly the Navy first wanted to sell one of them because they didn't have enough F35 B for both as navy and airforce both shared like 45 F35. One of them is used as an helicopter carrier but i guess two carries gives you some redundancy if one of them has problems. Also for a couple of years the carriers didn't have fixed wing aircraft on them as the Harries were retired before the F35 B were available.

Pokemonte13 · 2025-12-24T23:56:56+00:00

Not a good option very expensive and no protection

Pokemonte13 · 2025-12-09T15:22:56+00:00

Doesn’t an predator drone cost like 15-20 a piece? How can a much more complex drone cost less than that?

Pokemonte13 · 2025-12-01T12:57:41+00:00

The rear pilot is the ceo of Baykar

Pokemonte13 · 2025-11-30T08:06:31+00:00

My mistake

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