eliaslar the interview, I sourced from trmilitary dot com, it seems the staff from the forum interviewed Mr. Murad Bayar, I merely did an amateur translation of it to english to post it here like i mentioned on that specific post.
But anyways the projects mentioned in that interview in their general outlines are very well know in the Turkish and international defence circles, and the individual projects mentioned there have coverage in international defence media circles. So they arent new news, although the interview is recent.
We should note that some of the mentioned project programmes have been going on for some time, some even having their root a decade back, back then those were outright purchase programmes but due to global/domestic fiscal problems that affected Turkiye they were frozen. As an example, you might recall the ATAK (Turkish attack helicopter) project which was initially an outright purchase project with many international products from european, american, russian and even south african companies competing for it.
But the delays in such projects did not mean the ceasure of the continuation of their needs. Such "frozen projects" like the ATAK programme , has matured into a licensed modification/indigenous development of an existing AGUSTA platform with Turkish spec engine, armement, control and ew suite modification/manufaturing/ownership.
Personally i think such delays resulted in a better outcome, resulting into programmes that entail the local (Turkish) industry into having a much higher input into the sought after products, paving the way for domestic defence industy to flourish and rapidly develop into increased capacity to answering the needs of Turkish armed forces now and more so in the future.
I think thats something not only you but every defense minded person amateur or professional will be in your words "jealous" of.
But like you and every logical person would accept and like how beleg commented precisly, we have seen many projected programmes made by all defence forces that have not seen completion. Of course such possibilities exist too.
But as the Turkish saying "aslan yattigi yerden belli olur" that is "you can tell about a lion from its den" goes, I have great hope of those project to succeed, at least to mature into a better programme in time even if there are alterations/delays they may face.
Anyway, you said previously that you follow up on the Greek military projects through the media, would be nice if you could provide us with some Greek views about the next generation aircraft purchase possibilities.
What are the different opinions and discussions been put forward in the Greek defence circles that you come across your media about such a project?
It is inevitable that a new aircraft will enter Greek AF ranks, and both Rafale and Eurofighter are offering handsome deals with Germans perhaps throwing into the deal IFV possibilities as well.
Would be nice reading if you could provide us with some Greek opinions/articles discussing what you guys think and which way you will go?
Cheers.
