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As for TB2 obliterating Russian forces, stop reading turkish news. https://www.meta-defense.fr/en/2022/06/22/tb2-bayraktar-drones-no-longer-useful-in-ukraine-against-russian-anti-aircraft-defense/ They were effective when Russians like morons brought out convoys of trucks and armored vehicles...

Nothing will get to the scale of US military industrial complex and hence similar cost reduction for other military jets is improbable. US is producing 180 F-35 a year. There is a reason Rafale is expensive even with export orders. Even at best it comes down to 25 million + ammunition, it...

Where did you get the price tag ? Only article I found was. this : https://aircosmosinternational.com/article/first-flight-for-the-future-turkish-stealth-combat-drone-kizilelma-3439#:~:text=The%20Kizilelma%20would%20cost%20%22only,Reaper%20posted%20at%20%2432M. It says it will cost 35 million...

NVM, mixed up lbs and kgs. MTOW are similar according to wikipedia. 10433 kg for Apache and 10000 kg for T929.

My bad, although Turkey call it heavy attack, its max takeoff weight is less than half of apache. Not sure what is the criteria for categorizing a helicopter as heavy attack.

Turkish heavy attack helicopter (in same category as apache) : https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/our-first-clear-look-at-turkeys-new-t929-heavy-attack-helicopter

Does turkey make civilian or transport planes ?

UK government has given export license to all British companies to supply components for TAI TFX.

Probably most of their components are going to come from UK.

I have full faith in ADA+HAL+Babudom :)

TAI TFX might be a bit late than specified timeline, but I think they will be able to build it. BAE is helping them out. Turkey has a good industrial infra. UK has given export license to all its defense contractors to export to TAI TFX...