Eurofighter Typhoon

okakac said:
Brexit intends to replace losses from lost EU trade with increased efficiency from elsewhere. British control of the industry, especially defence.
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Nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit, apart from making it more difficult for everyone. Germany's the default European partner for Turkey on many things because of the depth of the Turkish diaspora there, but it's been more confrontational with the Turkish government of late than the rest of the partners, so it's not unexpected for Turkey to want to deal with someone else, and the UK is the obvious second string.
 
Makes absolutely no difference to the fact that Typhoon is neither required nor desired.
 
DWG said:
You seem to be repeatedly confusing people's ability to articulate facts or hypotheses with their political opinions.
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I have no interest in decreasing the US's influence in Turkey. In fact I personally would prefer to see the US influence increased.

But by imagining myself as Turkey, I/Turkey would want the US to have as little influence over me as I/Turkey can achieve. And by buying Typhoon I/Turkey can achieve that.
 
GTX said:

BAE Systems offers to upgrade Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet for Türkiye with electronic warfare capabilities

BAE Systems offers to upgrade Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet for Türkiye with electronic warfare capabilities
www.armyrecognition.com www.armyrecognition.com
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That's kind of false because we've heard from multiple reliable insiders (at the same time) that Turkey is planning to take over the orders of a Gulf country (Probably Qatar) for the first 20 aircraft.

Last I checked, the last 6 QEAF planes were still in production and the ones in service are still kind of brand-new.

As I've made it clear before, I am against this whole deal but at least TURAF have their eyes on planes that could be handed over relatively soon. It would've been even better if these planes were equipped with ECRS Mk2's instead of Mk0's but they don't have that kind of time since they sat on their asses and did nothing for too long...
 
timmymagic said:
This is an interesting thread....particularly around the comments around common baseline for the fleet...does this imply having the EK capability being able to be ported across airframes? Or what? Looks like the hope for further German orders beyond the intial EK, Quadriga and additional 20 a/c has diminished though.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846123791077785808
View: https://x.com/GarethJennings3/status/1846123791077785808
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Maybe the wing mounted systems of EK get integreated into the pylon for WVRAAMs which may even get modefied anyway if they build Iris-T FCAAM. Afterall tust would make space for the updated DASS and allows the EK "soft-kill' capabilitys for all jets (or atleast step 1 capabilitys which i see as the "soft-kill" part with step 2 bringing actual jammer as "hard-kill" system).

Edit: In the end it would be like Terma pylon based sollutions.
 
snne said:
That's kind of false because we've heard from multiple reliable insiders (at the same time) that Turkey is planning to take over the orders of a Gulf country (Probably Qatar) for the first 20 aircraft.
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Not sure how you're getting 'kind of false' given it's entirely possible to update aircraft with ECRS Mk.2 after delivery.
 

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