Their prototyping phase continue and first prototype deliveries for testing should be by next year at the latest from my head. These are subcomponents, not really flashy things they will scream about. We will see them on Kaan, KE and Anka-3, they're coming.
Wouldn't the time frame match the expected flight date of the new prototypes?
Indonesia chose Kaan over Boramae because Kaan is more capable and with no strings attached. If there were a better choice they would choose that one. This does not mean they will not honor the Kaan deal, on the contrary it means they will stick to it as it is the only good option in the decade ahead.
This is not news. TAI wants to do the first flight of the first second prototype just before 2025 ends in a similar fashion to the first prototype(they still can), but a more realistic date is January to March. This has always been the case. December to January is 1 month, December to March is 3-4 months. This is not a delay.
If you are making a contract with a known bad payer or dishonest customer you take care to protect yourself against non-payment. I guess that insurance against non-payment for its Rafales by Indonesia was quite expensive after Indonesia had shown how little importance honouring its contracts was to it in its dealings with ROK.
Türkiye is on the way to becoming a one stop shop for weapons, we can support our partners with unmanned planes and even Kaan can be optionally manned with an immature engine.
Per what's been released, deliveries will start in mid 2030s, so basically.
Yet. Libya used to have one of the largest air forces in the region. They used to operate up to 60 Mig-25s and no less than 15 Tu-22s.
We are not putting immature engines on a state of the art 150 million+ airframe.
Why not, we just don't need to make too many of them.
Why UAE?
UAE is an enemy that attacked Turkish personal recently.
They can pay
Let that be Kaan
They won't use Kaan to attack Turkish forces
They are doing what they are doing under cover. It is better them than someone else; we can deal with them better than we can deal with a high tech player.
They used Cirits to attack Turkish proxies in Libya and Roketsan supplied MLRS in Sudan. When they need it, they will.
