TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

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Some claim the tail boom will house both EW and part of radar suite, some say only a part of the EW suite. But by how BÜRFİS is structured, EW and radar are basically the same thing.

We'll learn more about it in the coming years anyhow.
 

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Yes, i know this. I talked about that in the past. When I mentioned Burfis in the past, I wrote the exact same thing (360 degree radar coverage), but now I have this info that is different than the past info.

Data-link, sensor fusion, IRST, wide-angle AESA radars like Raven, passive sensors, cheek arrays. There are multiple solutions. Of course, having cheek arrays as a brute force solution is good, but cheek arrays don't have the same capability as the nose array. Nose array is bigger, have more power output, and range.
 

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My source directly asked TUSAS official at IDEF but of course it is possible that he might be a marketing person that doesn't have deep knowledge about the project having said that i doubt that and i consider this true unless i see a more reliable source

That's what I mean, I don't want to attack you or declare your source unprofessional, but you know yourself what fanboy talk is. And let's be honest, no matter what technological leaps we've made in the last 10 years, we have to view many things with skepticism and not take every piece of nonsense at face value or treat it as such.
If it were up to fanboys, they'd already be building spaceships with warp drive technology.
 
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KAAN IVDL, this is not a mock-up.
 

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KAAN's radar, MURAD 600

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i wonder if this is representative of the latest design or an old mock-up they, conveniently, bring from fair to fair.
 

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Bro i didn't say the mockup belongs to MURAD-100. I said it looks smaller than the real MURAD-100, meaning that it doesn't make sense to read something out of that mockup.
 
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Maybe limits of power generation for the AESA radars or maybe because it's not useful to have a AESA radar sticking out of KAAN's butt :unsure:
KAAN's but is already sticking out.they could have used the sticking out part.

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@Yasar_TR abi,could they have used the ''butt'?
 

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Do we know if 270 degree is continuous? Maybe its front and back 270° coverage because it would be difficult to have 270 just from the nose, unless they are like angled 90 degrees?
 

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No reason for it to be non-continuous (radar here is both the nose and cheek combined into a blob), the issue for all a/c is the non-transparent body (to radar):

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The cheek antennas probably already do a large part in extending coverage to 270 deg, as with nose only its likely less than 180 deg.

I would imagine maybe KAAN develops a DAS (on wings) later to address the 90 degree gap with EO sensor fusion along wings and aft body etc.
 

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