How do you know that they are not ready or close to ready?
I followed the long saga of Indonesia failing to meet its agreements, promising to observe its agreements and to make good the development money outstanding then failing to do that again, then asking for a reduction in its share of development costs and (I believe) failing to build facilities in Indonesia as promised for development/assembly of K-FX. IIRC 30 development engineers ended up working in ROK.
According to TAI CEO, TURAF has ordered 16 KAANs and they expect another order this year after a SSİK meeting (3:20).
Thanks! I think it corroborates my point. Interest, request, wishlist and actual orders are very different things. Will TurAF easily order 100 jets, probably yes. Did it yet, no.
Wrong. The second prototype was AA-2 and flew 5 months after AA-1. AF-1 was the first series production model.
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.
