Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "Jake Broe" channel.

@Chris.Brisson And they were never delivered. Turkey had no interest in producing drones. They tried to buy American drones but that failed. Then they purchased Israeli drones which kept breaking down on them, they had to send these drones back to Israel to get fixed and in some cases they never got them back. So, they got fed up and made their own. We're probably going to see the same thing happen with their air defense systems in the next 5-10 years.
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@chuckgilly That's an easy result to achieve when only people you've "approved" can vote.
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@Capt Lazer, these things have insane tech. From electronic warfare capabilities to the very high end software that runs the entire thing.
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@leonieromanes7265 I don't think nations have personal reasons when crafting policy, at least not rational nations. If something does look personal, the personal aspect is essentially being used for strategic purposes. The last thing Turkey wants is Russia controlling the entire Black Sea. But at the same time doesn't want to risk armed conflict with Russia either. It's walking a tightrope.
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@mobiuscoreindustries It's the electronic warfare capabilities of these drones which makes them so difficult to take down.
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@billyjesus5442 This is normally true and probably applies to literally every country except for a select few. Turkey kind of falls in the middle because they've actually been producing F16 parts for nearly 20 years. To keep their current planes flying they can produce all the spare parts they need during a war for that specific plane. Hell they even make the engine for it. Modernizing them however will be a challenge for them. Their major problem is a stop gap measure until their own plane is up and running. Perhaps that is why they're trying to buy upgrade viper kits for their F16s from America right now.
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@billyjesus5442 If they get those things done (which is a big if) they'll be top 5 not top 10. They're already top 10 without the fighter jet and turboprop UAV.
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@Bill Blinky I remember reading somewhere that the fact it's so slow gives it some sort of advantage in avoiding detection in high end air defense radars and the way they're made. They're making them this slow on purpose for some reason and it's working.
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@Larry 0, It makes sense 50 Bayraktar drones will do a lot more damage than 1 predator. Yes in a 1v1 comparison the Predator is leagues ahead of the Bayraktar. But when you add price into the equation the situation changes as to which is better.
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@112deeps It seems they're willing to take short term pain for long term planning.
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@johnmiller7231 I've read that too and it's hard to believe. These things take time to make and they haven't been making them along enough to have the logistics to pop out 7 of these things a week. Military hardware these days is very complex, especially with the software requirements to push them out that fast. If they can pop out 1 a week they're well ahead of the game.
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@Triggy EV, It's the Turkey-Poland-United States triangle that recently formed which is getting these things into Ukraine now along with all it's missiles. Turkey makes them, United States provides the cash and Poland provides transport.
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@Chris.Brisson Turkey never owned the predator as far as I know. I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure. If they did crash they were probably American operated predators working out of the Incirlik(spelling) Airbase.
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@BASSfromtHeBOSS I don't remember commenting otherwise.
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 @randomdude8202 I'm not sure Russia and China are in a position to force a nation Turkey's size into anything.
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@Mary Beth Rathged, I don't think their economy has any impact on their foreign policy and military industrial complex. Their defense spending is nearly the same as it was before this crippling inflation.
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@o.c.g.m9426 The Minarets in Spain have nothing to do with the Ottomans. It was the Moors that did that.
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@Un Located, It's hard to know for sure since Baykar is not a publicly traded company but I remember reading somewhere that they're selling the drones to Ukraine at a loss. The rest being subsidized by the government. That might have only applied to the additional 12 they sent before America started paying for the deliveries out of it's own pocket.
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@GarthVonMaraner The government can order that company to stop selling the weapons to Ukraine when ever they want. They simply don't do it. They'll basically testing to see how far they can go without making Russia react. Basically they have more balls than the so-called E.U. power house states.
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@Chris.Brisson Why would they do that? Also I'm not sure the globalists would allow such a thing. We'd probably see another coup attempt or something if they tried to pull out of Nato. That's a dangerous game.
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@randomdude8202 Not sure that day will come. Russia is dying and it will take another 100 years for China to project that type of military power that far from it's shores. That's also something China isn't too interested in.
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@randomdude8202 The collapse will come, we probably won't be alive to see it. They're in demographic decline, they won't have the population to sustain their landmass. All those ethnic groups they've conquered, once they feel ethnic Russians are in the minority will revolt. But don't say you hope I'm right, Russia collapsing is one of the most dangerous things the world can face. Imagine a nation with 7000 nukes collapsing. Who gets those nukes? Where do they end up? Russia collapsing is a doomsday scenario. As much as I hate Russia the last thing I'd want to see is their collapse.
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@kevinwarburton2938 Arms sales won't even come close to making a dent in that economy. What it can do is provide more liquidity to the arms industry itself for it to stay a float and keep innovating. But it will have no impact on the economy, the numbers simple don't add up. Like an earlier poster said it would take billions, not hundreds of millions to make a dent in the economy.
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@RevolverDoomGUY, if everything we're hearing out of Ukraine is even remotely true about numbers of Russian equipment destroyed. It will take Russia 20 years to recover from this. Replacing an entire fleet of tanks is no easy task.
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@JakeBroe I live there 5 months out of the year. The social unrest and political problems are overblown. Their biggest long term problem isn't even the economy. It's the nearly 7 million refugees running around, that right there could lead to social unrest. It hasn't yet but imagine nearly 10% of your population being refugees. This isn't going to end well. All this talk about economic and political problems is all just BS, they're short term problems. It's the amount of refugees that is their main problem.
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@Douglas Jackson. Turkey doesn't have great demographics. Their birthrate is dropping every year. If you take a microscope it's even worse than that. The high IQ segments of their society in the west (the groups who produce most of their leaders) have replacement rates less than 1.7 which doesn't make for the best demographics going forward. They need to find a way to incentivize these people to have more children to have "great demographics" going into the future.
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@fatihersayn7877 Yes but in the west of the nation the inbreeding rates are lower, which is why the average IQ there is much higher than in the interior. The people in central and eastern Turkey inbreed much which leads to serious genetic damage. These aren't the people you want breeding out of control which is what is going on in Turkey. The gene pool might get destroyed and Turkey could potentially turn into another Iraq in 200 years if this continues.
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@BelloBudo007 The difference is you're not running around with a state of the art electronic jamming system which makes you look like a flock of birds to radar. lol
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@xavierg8985 So your contention is that because Erdogan owes his life to Putin, he sends high tech military equipment into a warzone where they're destroying high end Russian military equipment at an alarming rate? Is that your argument? If so, I have an amazing Atlantic Ocean front property in Moscow I'd love to sell you at a really really cheap price.
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@Marty Moose, Russia failed in trying to topple the Ukrainian government quickly. But it does seem like they're simply not going to stop until Ukraine is landlocked. Once that happens there won't be many trade opportunities in the Black Sea to be had for anyone.
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