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Barring any magical innovation that completely replaces how ICs are designed and manufactured there will always be a rift in technology between established manufacturers and newcomers. This is the unfortunate reality. The chips our factories manufacture will never be cost-effective or cutting...

SMIC (China) is pushing ASML DUV systems to their absolute limits (5nm) with multipatterning. I wonder what manufacturer of DUV machines we'll be using before (if ever?) ASELSAN produces something. Probably Canon. We're so far behind that these factories will only serve our military...

IIRC Kotil mentioned TAI having a substantial titanium stockpile in an interview a few years back. It could be that they got a sweetheart deal from some shady supplier and never checked the quality. Unacceptable. UPDATE There are two companies (probably more) going by the anglicized name Baoji...

TAI part of Boeing and Spirit counterfeit titanium scandal. This might have contributed to TK's ouster. Really bad for TAI's reputation and business. From the NYT:

Dr. Mehmet Demiroğlu was a frequent collaborator of Dr. Mahmut Akşit, so he's a turbomachinery guy through and through. He has patents under GE in his name. It might be good for TAI, seeing that most projects' success now revolves around the development of indigenous engines. I'm conflicted...

What if the thrust class of Baykar's engine is the same as TF-6000, the only difference being attritability? It might be the approach Baykar is going for.

Yeah what's the discrepancy between payload of T-50 and Hürjet? They seem identical in most aspects (engine, dimensions), Hürjet even has slightly more wing area. Is TAI being conservative on purpose? Perhaps precisely because of this?

The S- (Smart) prefix on all of these indicate that TÜBİTAK is building an ecosystem of homegrown software tools for defence including Computer-aided Engineering (CAE) and Software Development Kits (SDKs). Likely intent of some of tools I see: - S-RT-DevKit: Integration with GİS, TÜBİTAK's...

Yeah, looks like they tuned the PID controllers with data from the first flight. I hope they keep GTU-0 flying, if only for testing avionics and basic flight controls.

Isn't the main gearbox of ATAK-II the same as T-925? I always saw the test flight last year as more of proof of concept for the mechanical portions of both, placed in a attack helicopter shell for... reasons. It isn't a big deal if ATAK-II is put on the back burner as long as progress is being...

F-35 APG-81 SAR imaging for air-to-ground attack, having multiple arrays or a repositionable one isn't a significant advantage for this use-case:

And still no supersonic flight. Maybe this first prototype is built to only test the subsonic envelope? In the documentary there were two prototypes being built, but we haven't seen the second one since.

This is great, but I would prefer a MediaWiki-based platform (like Fandom) for flexibility and version control. I also think using an existing wiki platform (again, like Fandom) would help with search engine optimization (SEO). There are XenForo wiki plugins that can come close, so if we stick...

Continuing discussion here. What you said is sadly true, but it's unfortunately the reality of Wikipedia. My hope is that we could have something like radartutorial.eu, which is so beyond Wikipedia, they're basically not worth comparing when looking up radar-related stuff. For me it doesn't...

Continuing my rant, I'd like to propose an English language wiki (free from idiotic Wikipedia mods) headed by a babayiğit from this forum on cutting-edge Turkish defence projects—starting with the KAAN. I'd like to envision it as a neutral, leading source of truth on open-source info on such...

This guy can't even keep basic facts straight: dates of embargoes, missile ranges, etc. It's a shame such lowest common denominator sources are so popular...

I mentioned my opinions on this a while back. Back in 2018, there was talk of a joint-venture between TAI and Antonov on a jet-powered version of the An-70. Not only that but the An-70 is one of few aircraft powered by a propfan (the Progress D-27). CFM's rise and RR's UltraFan use modern...

My theory, BİLGEM piggybacked FCS off other computers like the Central Management Computer, since they share a common architecture. The other computers don't do a lot right now, so it makes sense. Therefore, I believe the systems are in-house, but a full independent computer isn't installed for...

They're quite transparent in the slide. If they'd used a Leonardo FCS they'd mention it. "Computers: TUBITAK". Secondo Mona, fuel system (Italy) OMA, hydraulic power (Italy) Martin Baker, ejection seat (UK) General Electric, engines (USA) Airtificial, active sidestick (Spain) Aerosonic, air...