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Have you got a source for Roketsan ramjet firing? That is really big !

Exactly! That was what I meant With TOT as well.

During Temel Kotil’s time a deal was signed between TAI and Pakistani Nescom to manufacture certain parts of Anka drone in Pakistan with some TOT. https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defense/turkish-aerospace-pakistani-institution-to-jointly-produce-uav-parts

All very well. But can anyone see when the ignition video bit of the ramjet is? I couldn’t see it. There must be at least 7 different angles of the missile shooting up in to the air at different angles (3rd one looks perpendicular). But I’d be damned if I could see the ignition of ramjet engine...

Anka-3 is a subsonic plane. So it doesn’t need TF10000. But if you want to take off with extra load TF10000 would help. For KE , TF6000 could be enough too. After all many fighter jets spend most of their time in subsonic domain. I doubt we would be using KE in dogfights or in conditions where...

Yes. Although both engines are classed as low bypass engines, their bypass ratios are slightly higher than most low bypass engines of their peers. In fact the TF6000 has slightly higher bypass ratio than TF10000 if we look at their individual specs (1:1.08 for TF6000 and 1:1.00 for TF10000) By...

According to the 2024 interview notes below he is vague about the engine production of Baykar. https://archive.gdh.digital/haluk-bayraktar-bayraktar-kizilelmanin-motoru-dort-yila-yerli-olur-117958 He says they have decided to allocate 300 million dollars to engine development of Akinci and...

We mustn’t compare apples with oranges. TAI is a state owned company with certain bureaucratic practices that can not be overcome easily. That makes it lethargic and not malleable like a private sector company as Baykar. There is a fine and sensitive division of work share between the two...

Yes, the plane will be the same as a US plane. But they won’t be able to integrate any munition they want. They probably won’t come with EW suites and long range munitions. Just like Egyptian F16s, they will be the same plane , but without AMRAAMs. That is why Egypt is buying Chinese planes to...

I fully agree with everything you say. Turbofan engine is one of the hardest technologies one can acquire. If you are building a 6000/10000lbf dry/wet thrust engine you are probably at the first steps. If you are envisaging building a 12000/20000lbf dry/wet thrust engine, then you are half way...

Let us hope that an IWB a2a test is not too far away. That is when it becomes a real danger to all 4.5+ gen fighters. One has to remember that both Gokdogan and KE are still going through their testing processes. There is still some road ahead. We will also need the TF10000 and operational...

So let me try to understand this and translate it for us mere mortals: There was no search radar present with the unit. It received search data from elsewhere. It was manually fired and fire control radar and/or its onboard seeker guided it to target. That shouldn’t work. It has to receive data...

Bro, not usually! It means “without human intervention” “Autonomous firing of a missile" means to be able to independently select and engage a target without continuous, real-time human intervention in the critical functions of searching, detecting, identifying, and launching an attack.

My understanding is: without someone pressing “fire” button. System’s own radar recognises threat and it fires an interceptor missile by itself after targeting it.

https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/10/01/turkey-denies-claims-erdogan-was-misinformed-on-kaan-fighter-jet-engine/ This is an interesting article on the latest situation regarding KAAN engine. The last sentence is of significant importance when you think of previous posts here about the KAAN...