Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

F-16 saga continues. According to Bloomberg LM wants to see extra money to open another production line and upgrades to MC. The Turks want to integrate their own Radars and avionics in the B70.



Imagine a B70 with CFTs and Murad radar with Gokhan/Gokbora integtration. That would be a B70+

reftar said:

It's not Toy Gun
It's a Turkish male name, albeit rare. It comes from the archaic Turkic root

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(or töy) which means assembly or council (often for military or state decision-making). “-gun” is a suffix meaning a person related to something, so toygun means a

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, usually a high ranking, of a high council.
In some Turkic dialects it can also mean a

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, and also a general name for birds of prey (toygun/

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)

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They should’ve gone with Tuygun. The other spelling is confusing.

siegecrossbow said:

They should’ve gone with Tuygun. The other spelling is confusing.

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"A true TVRK does not care about how others see his glorious words. It is for he and he alone to enjoy reaching into ancient times for linguistic inspiration"

siegecrossbow said:

They should’ve gone with Tuygun. The other spelling is confusing.

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Toygun is the modern version, and it rolls off the tongue easier.

Turkish military industrial nomenclature is dangerously close to being as confusing and terrible as Iran's already.

There's almost always a case of two completely irrelevant products/projects having the same name.

It's even confusing to the people who dedicate a significant portion of their days to tracking these kinds of matters.

At least, even if already too late, the industry has started to notice this problem and the electronics giant Aselsan has started to combine its typical nomenclature with coding; e.g. Toygun-100/200/300, Aselflir family, MURAD-100A/110A/600A, FEWS F-16/Kaan, FULMAR 200-A/500-A, etc., there's tons of examples of this within Aselsan's huge product family now.