I still don't understand why people are even discussing this "news"?
I mean, this is from an Azerbaijani source...what is the reliability of it to begin with?
1. Isn't the Turkish ship more expensive than Chinese? any ship Turkey can make, the Chinese can make much better and much quicker at a cheaper price. I remember reading a article about an incident when Pakistan had shown interest in buying some sort of military jeeps from Turkey; the price quoted by turkey was very high, and when Pakistanis found that buying these jeeps directly from OEM was much cheaper option than buying from turkey, they wen't ahead and bought them directly from the OEM-which I believe was in England.
2. Isn't inducting a wide variety of attack helicopter platforms a logistics nightmare and eventually drive up the maintenance budget?
3. How reliable is the Turkish supply chain of spare parts? China has a much better supply chain of spares thus ensuring higher operational availability of Chinese built products.
4. As for construction of ships in Pakistan, wasn't there a news recently stating that the option of building of naval ships in Pakistan turning out to be a much costlier affair than building of same ships in china, and as a reason, the decision to build ships in Pakistan was cancelled altogether to save costs.
Ultimately, it will be 'economics' that will be the deciding factor of any decision (unless of-course the decision makers are corrupt and are given kickbacks to swing the deal to other party); and from the very outset, the Turkish products are expensive compared to Chinese.
I mean, this is from an Azerbaijani source...what is the reliability of it to begin with?
1. Isn't the Turkish ship more expensive than Chinese? any ship Turkey can make, the Chinese can make much better and much quicker at a cheaper price. I remember reading a article about an incident when Pakistan had shown interest in buying some sort of military jeeps from Turkey; the price quoted by turkey was very high, and when Pakistanis found that buying these jeeps directly from OEM was much cheaper option than buying from turkey, they wen't ahead and bought them directly from the OEM-which I believe was in England.
2. Isn't inducting a wide variety of attack helicopter platforms a logistics nightmare and eventually drive up the maintenance budget?
3. How reliable is the Turkish supply chain of spare parts? China has a much better supply chain of spares thus ensuring higher operational availability of Chinese built products.
4. As for construction of ships in Pakistan, wasn't there a news recently stating that the option of building of naval ships in Pakistan turning out to be a much costlier affair than building of same ships in china, and as a reason, the decision to build ships in Pakistan was cancelled altogether to save costs.
Ultimately, it will be 'economics' that will be the deciding factor of any decision (unless of-course the decision makers are corrupt and are given kickbacks to swing the deal to other party); and from the very outset, the Turkish products are expensive compared to Chinese.
