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I’m actually surprised here nobody mentioned Trump did a trump and back out at sending the f 35 to turkey honestly not surprised he’s a snake can’t be trusted honestly I hope turkey does field a fighter as capable of not more so in the future and with foreign tech but solely Turkish and joint Arab and Muslim countries at least turkey has come a long way to become independent of foreign suppliers

Do you know what the one thing is that stupid America and Israel don't understand ?

After the first American arms embargo on Turkiye by 1975 , Türkiye began to establish its own defense industry ( TAI , TEI , ASELSAN , HAVELSAN , ROKETSAN , STM , etc )

American sanctions actually made Türkiye a military power in the world

-- USA blocked sale of UCAVs to Turkiye and Turkiye has become a UCAV super power in the world with its own TB-2/3 , ANKA-S , AKSUNGUR , AKINCI , ANKA-3
( only USA and Turkiye in NATO )

-- USA blocked sale of PATRIOT to Turkiye and Turkiye has developed its own STEEL DOME AD umbrella with its own SIPER , HISAR , GOKDEMIR , SUNGUR , GURZ , KORKUT
( only USA , France and Turkiye in NATO )


As of 2026 , with more than 1400 military projects, Turkiye is in the league of giants in the world.

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Turkiye is moving forward on its own agenda
In the last 10 years, Turkiye has made tremendous progress with the developmet of Platforms and subsystems

Manned - unmanned stealth Fighter Jets like KAAN and KIZILELMA have been developed and made their first flights

With the development of the TF-6.000 , TF-10,000 and TF-35,000 turbofan engines in the next 5-10 years, Turkiye will be among the top 5 in the world for aviation Industry

USA , China , Europe , Russia and Turkiye

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Here I will showcase technologies that only a few NATO countries can develop/produce for the Air Force ..... 2026-2032 period


1 -- 5th gen Fighter Jet
USA : F-22 and F-35
Turkiye : KAAN ... ( also TF-35000 engine under development )

The UK and France have their projects for 2040s

2 -- Unmanned stealth Fighter Jet
USA : YFQ-44
Turkiye : KIZILELMA

3 -- Flying-wing stealth UCAV
USA : X-47
Turkiye : ANKA-III
The UK : TARANIS
France : NEURON

4 -- Strike UCAV
USA : MQ-9
Turkiye : AKINCI

USA : MQ-9 Seaguardian (Seaspray 7500E V2 Radar with range of 320 nm - 592 km)
Turkiye : AKINCI UCAV ( FULMAR-500 AESA Radar with range of 320 nm- 592 km )


5 -- Attack Helicopter
USA : AH-64 and AH-1Z
Turkiye : T-129 and T-929
Italy : AW-249
France-Germany : Eurocopter TIGER

6 -- Utility Helicopter with Turboshaft Engine Technology in the World
USA : S-70 Black Hawk ( General Electric T700-GE-701D )
The UK : AW159 Wildcat - Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322
France : EC-725 ( Turboméca ( SAFRAN ) Makila 2A1 )
Turkiye : T-625 GOKBEY ...( TEI TS-1400turboshaft Engine )


7 -- Next gen Trainer Jet
USA : T-7
Turkiye : HURJET

8 -- High-altitude long range Air Defense System
USA : PATRIOT
France-Italy : SAMP-T
Turkiye : SIPER

9 -- Exoatmospheric Ballistic Missile Intereptor
USA : THAAD
Turkiye : SIPER-4 .. ( under development )
France-Italy : ASTER-30 Block-2 BMD .. ( under development )

10 -- Weapon Locating Radar
-- 50 km AN/TPQ-37 ... USA
-- 100 km ARTHUT ... Sweden
-- 100 km COBRA ... France
-- 250+ km SURALP ... Turkiye

11 -- Land based long range AESA Radar
-- 250 km Hensoldt TRML-4D ... GERMANY
-- 470 km Thales Ground Master 400 ... FRANCE
-- 470 km Saab GIRAFFE 8A .... SWEDEN
-- 500 km Leonardo RAT-31DL ... ITALY
-- 450-600 km Aselsan ERALP .... TURKIYE

12 -- Airborne AESA Radar for Fighter Jets
USA : AN/APG-81 and AN/APG-85
Turkiye : MURAD-100A and MURAD-600A
France : RBE2
Italy : Raven ES-05
The UK : ECRS

13 -- BVR Air to Air Missile
USA : AIM-120 , AIM-260
France : MICA , METEOR
Turkiye : GOKDOGAN

Turkiye also develops 185+ km GOKBORA and 200+ GOKHAN ramjet powered air to air Missile with active AESA radar seeker


14 -- Stand off jammer Aircraft
USA : EA-37B
Turkiye : ASOJ-23A

15 -- Primary Military Satellite Producers in NATO
USA
Turkiye
France
The UK
Germany
Italy

16 -- Global Positioning System
USA : GPS
Europe : GALILEO
Turkiye : ULUGBEY .... ( with 100 Satellites within 5 years )

17 -- Thermobaric Bombs
USA : BLU-118/B
Turkiye : GAZAP ( WRATH )
( World’s one of most powerful non-nuclear Bomb )

GAZAP’s thermobaric blast reaches 5,432°F (3,000°C) delivering near-nuclear level destruction without crossing the nuclear threshold.


18 -- Cruise Missile with turbojet Engine technology
USA
Turkiye
France

19 -- Air launched Ballistic Missile
USA : AGM-183 ARRW
Turkiye : 300-ER

20 -- Targetin Pod
USA : SNIPER
France : TALIOS
Turkiye : ASELPOD

21 -- Next Gen HMD System
USA : Collins Aerospace F-35 Gen III
The UK : BAE Systems STRIKER-2
Turkiye : Aselsan TULGAR

22 -- Bliks and Single crystal blade technologies for gas turbine turboshaft/turbofan Engines

USA
UK
France
Turkiye

23-- RAMJET for supersonic Missiles
USA
The UK
France
Germany
Turkiye

24-- Ground based Hypersonic Weapon
USA : DARK EAGLE
Turkiye : TAYFUN Block4 and CENK

And many more
Even I am not talking about the Army and the Navy

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What gives some of these daydreamer Countries in the region like Israel and Greece the confidence to dare to challenge Turkiye which is one of NATO's top 5 most technologically advanced Countries ? ..... ( USA , The UK , Turkiye , France , Germany )


Those fools who are still happy about blocking the F-35 can't see what kind of technological power is coming