Turkey has started construction of 300m long aircraft carrier.What role will this vessel serve, given that Mediterranean and Black Sea are not ideal environments for operating surface combatants? https://x.com/Defence_Index/status/2002384343873073474?s=20
>>64662895Rubbing it in russia's face that not only are they just a regional power, they're not even close to the strongest in the region.
>>64662895Caspian sea patrol boat
>>64662895>a ramp
>>64662895Flexing on the poors (Russia)
>>64662895retarded waste of money unless they sell it to Muslim southeast Asians and Pakistan
Huh, how does it fit with Montreaux Convention? >t. don't really know shit about the MC
>>64662895This seems like a way for them to gain experience putting their drones and domestic aircraft onto a carrier so they can offer that to export.
>>64663041Imagine the Turks refusing passage to themselves.
Force projection in the Black Sea and med, I suppose.Just drive it out to an obscure part of the water, and then launch suprise attacks from a vector that's not expected. You could do the same thing by making your planes and drones fly longer routes and then make sharp turns, but any aircraft carrier besides the US ones is just a big trophy, anyway.Flexing on the weak neighbors (especially Russia) is the point.
>>64662895This is probably gonna be a drone carrier? Turkey doesn't have carrier jets
Bragging rights against Russia and another thing to make the Greeks mad. Its a face culture weapon
>>64663096I think Greece isn't even in their equation anymore.
>>64663041It gives Turkey official control over the Bosporous and allows them to place limits on what can transit into the Black Sea. Turkey can do whatever it wants in its territorial waters.
>>64662895These Med-focus carriers have altered stability constraints (tl;dr they're wider). Its a good look.
>>64662895No catapult? lol
>>64663086> any aircraft carrier besides the US ones is just a big trophy, anywayThe Charles de Gaulle is doing work. We'd need a few more to really cover our oversea territories but nuclear powered CATOBAR carriers are expensive.It's a miracle we managed to build one.
>>64662895>What role will this vessel servewhite elephant>>64663041>Montreaux Convention?it will be used to enforce the Conventionby the way, the agreement is quite short and to the point, google it and read for yourself
>>64662895A nations first CV always suck, good luck
superpower by 2035
>>64663920Goddamn, France has that many islands in the Pacific? Are most of them tiny plots of land that are barely above sea level or something?
>>64663997Yeah. But the seas around then are ours. That's why our carrier and subs are nuclear.
>>64663086Also they probably upset Russia and Iran by deposing Al Assad, so they might want to have a way to project power to, say, the Arabian sea.
This one is going to carry israelis back to Germany
>>64663041Montreaux Convention has nothing to do with aircraft carrier limitations, that's just propaganda cope of russians about why they've had shit made.
>>64664682>t. didn't read the fucking Convention, repeats fuddloreidiot
>>64663041It is long enough to span the Ballspo'r'us strait so that Turkish kebab tanks can cross to rape gyros, as is tradition.
>>64662904Cope slope
>>64662895Sultan's prestige weapon. Strategically they don't make any sense for Turkey since it has neither overseas territories nor overseas interests which require such an extremely expensive power projection tool.All their interests are regional (think mediterranean, arabian peninsula and central asia. And airbases can generate far more sorties than a carrier. Even if you want to extend their reach to, say, the western med, it would be way more efficient to spend money on aerial refueling and AEW aircraft.
Turkey has interests in Somalia, Libya, Western Africa where France got kicked in the cunt.This vessel, along with Anadolu will serve as drone bases (KE + TB3)Also, it can be used for blockading "some countries" from the red sea and western med, if they go too uppity
>>64662895>So many stupid comments from fellas here, yet they neither remember or studied the Gallipoli campaign and Subject of Aircraft or Aircraft Carrier.
>>64666332>Also, it can be used for blockading "some countries" from the red sea and western med, if they go too uppitydon't fly too close to the sun Mehmet
>>64666346I don’t have any strong thoughts about the Turks getting AC’s but what does the Gallipoli campaign have to do with this?
>>64666245>Strategically they don't make any sense for TurkeyA mobile air base is much harder to bomb and requires specialised ordinance that is available in much smaller numbers.
>>64665923very rude way to refer to a SEA wife.
>>64667783I prefer to say >emotional-support lbfm
>>64666992>They lacked an AC during that timeWhich would be super useful against Russia or Ententé (Rest of it) on the other side as tactical mobile Airbase. Turkey has those Straits in their hands would be always able to relocate from one direction to other, place his AC and use it on way on Defense that no other country would be able. Just Study the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the_Dardanelles_campaign
>>64666992>In Addition:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbM-MIME40s
>>64662895Probably going to be for drone use like that thing iran has.
>>64663134Doesnt greece still have a big navy? or did that get wiped out to in 2008?
>>64672605I looked it up, greece had a bigger navy and a airforce that was close to turkey but because of the 2008 crisis there where massive budget cuts and now the greece navy&airforce&militairy is only a shadow of what it was before 2008. No shit the turks dont really think greece is a problem anymore. Europe castrated greece.
>>64667737If that was a valid reason militaries would have done away with barracks long ago.
>>64672865Are you fucking retarded?
>>64663041They'll call it a LHD like the japs and wops do.
>>64662895>What role will this vessel serveExpensive boondoggle project that eats up public government funds for 15 years and is finally finished only in a performative manner. Brownoids from the third world will hail this as a victory for collective Brownistan nations just like they did when the Chinks and Street Shitters got one, then promptly forget it exists because none of these nations could fix a straw if it was bent, much less fight a war with the West. It'll sit in dock for three years, then half of it will explode because of some illiterate dumbass trying to siphon off fuel incorrectly, and finally be scrapped when they realize it'll cost more to repair than it cost to build the damn thing in the first place.Screencap this. I expect everything to go down exactly as I have detailed in this very post.
>>64674423Are you?
>>64675069The nips call theirs a CVM, multirole aviation cruiser.
>>64664935>It is long enough to span the Ballspo'r'us straitAre you aware that there are a load of bridges and a tunnel across the Bosporus?
>>64662895What aircraft will they operate from it?
>>64675628Are you aware that thirdies say and plan a lot of things that don't fucking happen?
>>64675784I guess. It's not certainly not a turk saying it.
>>64675773>Delta wing with canards sitting on a carrierI think that's a Rafale but might just be a placeholder for the picture.
