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Lol, read again. I said, Total internal payload capacity. Not total internal weapon capacity. That is also why I also added-
And F-22 carries 6x AIM-120 and 2x AIM-9.
Those alone would weigh around 1100kg. Thus for KAAN-
And indeed you were.I think what you are thinking at the moment is the figure includes internal fuel capacity.
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I think people are referring to this but,
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It's massive
If you have any other evidence than I am happy to be listen.I don't know why you are taking that presentation as the only and sole true source, there were many revisions made to the project and aircraft after that.
It is 3 years old ffs
Perhaps TF-X can't carry some Turkish weapons because of weight & dimension limits and it is not unusual. Even F-22 can't carry all American weapons internally.You see, if you take that presentation as your source, Kaan is not able to carry most of Turkish munitions at all.
Nowhere in your article confirms that TF-X carries SOM-J internally. Turkish Airforce's presentation says that it is carried externally.TÜBİTAK SAGE Türkiye'nin yeni füzelerini hazırlıyor
TÜBİTAK SAGE, yüksek teknoloji ürünü bir dizi füze ve mühimmatı güvenlik güçlerinin kullanımına sunmaya hazırlanıyor. - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
Here is an official confirmation of SOM-J in KAAN's IWB's (from head of Tübitak SAGE, ones who develop SOM-J)
Are you trolling?Nowhere in your article confirms that TF-X carries SOM-J internally. Turkish Airforce's presentation says that it is carried externally.
And your article was published before Turkish Airforce presented their overview of TF-X programme. Sigh. No more reply for you unless you bring up some actual evidence.
Are you trolling?
"SOM-J, F-35 iç istasyonu için geliştirilen bir seyir füzesi olmakla beraber hem F-16'da hem Milli Muharip Uçağımızın (MMU) iç istasyonunda kullanılabilecek çok yetenekli önemli bir seyir füzemiz. İHA tarafından çoklu taşıma imkanları da sağlayacağı için SOM-J'yi görebileceğimizi düşünüyorum."
Yeah, you definitely are
Sigh.There is no need to discuss further as it has been proven that A-K/2021-2 presentation is outdated to some extent and not a reliable sourc
Dosirak, you are mostly correct. However, it is believed that SOM-M listed in below tweet is believed to be a variant of SOM for the İWB of MMU mentioned in the article. No concrete evidence, just people speculate that way.Nowhere in your article confirms that TF-X carries SOM-J internally. Turkish Airforce's presentation says that it is carried externally.
And your article was published before Turkish Airforce presented their overview of TF-X programme. Sigh. No more reply for you unless you bring up some actual evidence.
No, he is talking about the "ability"Guys calm down.
If I say "Meteor missile can be used in the iwb of mmu", it does not necessarily mean mmu will use it. This is Dosirak's view.
Bro we are trying to find a middle ground. Please be more welcoming. We need more non-Turkiye affiliated people in this forum.No, he is talking about the "ability"
Still not too sure, or not sure if this is to scaleI'm thinking out loud. Kaan iwb has 7 equally distant notches of sorts on sides. Now it has to be around 4 meters to fit som j or gökdoğan and if they are equally divided chances are maybe they are 2 feet apart, for a total of 14 = 4.2 meters. From there i speculate the width is around 1.8 meters and height is like 700-800cm to the steel structures on top. But these are me eyeballing. That tells me with addition of hardpoints, MK84 is a bit too thick, but you should be able to fit 2 or 3 MK83, or why not modify a more rectangular MK84 like munition?
Edit: wait MK84 diameter is 45cm not radius, that means it could fit 2?, in fact even if we take a lower estimate like 3.8 to 1.5 meter it should fit
Look at kaan and f15 in this and in presentationAviationweek magazine has released the long-awaited photo. The magazine published a photo of KAAN from the top on its cover. So I was able to compare its size with other planes. I got the dimensions of KAAN, F-15C and F-16C from wikipedia. I also added Photoshop's ruler to the image. So I was able to make a scaled size comparison using real photos.