TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

[Pokemonte13]

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This is excellent news about the F110 engines moving forward. This covers one of the most fragile points in all of Turkish defense industry projects and carries the program until 2032-2033 when the indigenous engine is scheduled to be ready. It seems the usual ethnic lobbies in the Congress won't be able to get the majority required to block the process and it will move forward. I hope the deliveries happen with a reasonable timeline.

It's a bit concerning, though, what they said about an agreement about S-400 being done. We have long had a good policy of keeping the S-400 and insisting on F-35s. I hope that continues.

It’s a law specifically designed to target countries/governments that buy Russian military hardware. Even if they wanted they couldn’t and it’s not like s400 is really that important to our air defence too few systems and not enough performance (lacks an iff etc). What we could learn about the f35 is much higher

 

[godel44]

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It’s a law specifically designed to target countries/governments that buy Russian military hardware. Even if they wanted they couldn’t and it’s not like s400 is really that important to our air defence too few systems and not enough performance (lacks an iff etc). What we could learn about the f35 is much higher

I don’t disagree. The S-400 is not very useful for us and the CAATSA provisions require them to certify it has been removed irretrievably.