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Listen closely to Putin: His imperial ambitions could include Turkey Yes, it's NATO propaganda, but the author does make a salient point on right-wing and historic Russian sentiment towards Turkey, and especially Istanbul.

This article also mentions how MAM will handle the canopy. Full translation: Turkey's developed 5th generation fighter aircraft, KAAN, took off from the runway, meeting the sky as it lifted its wheels off the ground. The flight, which held the breath of all Turkey, also made a great impact...

From open sources, job listings give a good idea as well, but there aren't any open right now: CAD/CAM: Dassault CATIA & Siemens NX Engineering Simulation: Ansys and in-house tools OS: TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (GzİS) Avionics: ASELSAN Training Sim: HAVELSAN I think flight control algorithms are...

With these new images/videos you can clearly see the bump where a non-conformal antenna just behind the canopy was added for data-link. I suppose the shape of the airframe has to be finalized before they engineer all that stuff.

A momentous occasion! What astounds me is the sheer volume of revisions done on GTU-0. Things I noticed, besides the obvious flight test boom: - Unpainted surfaces for flaperons, ailerons, rudders and horizontal tails. Maybe parts were revised/replaced? - Unpainted area just behind the canopy...

With respect to Turks in space, I think we should have a Lt Gen Kerim Kerimov (1917-2003) appreciation day in Turkey. An Azeri Turk, he was the chief scientist of the Soviet Space Program (SSP). His mere existence was kept secret from the world, for the safety of the SSP, until 1987. Whilst the...

More KAAN, still not textured, just having fun doing some night renders. Enjoy, folks!

The reality today, in my view, is even more sinister and hands-off. Japanese policymakers probably aren't getting direct orders from the State Dept. anymore. Their population are so deluded that most begrudgingly accept that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary. When you raise...

"Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena" by Clinton Fernandes, a Professor of International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales, is an excellent book on this subject. While the book is ostensibly about Australia, this framing of sub-imperial powers being...

If they can keep the operating costs of the light combat version of Hürjet down, it'd really give our F-16s a much needed break from more mundane operations like civilian aircraft interceptions, and perhaps do some basic counterinsurgency ops, especially with that drone operator concept.

The shape is finally getting there! I slapped a temporary procedural metal panel material for this render, texturing won't be done before the topology is locked in. Cem Gürbüz' version, while excellent, has a strange nose, and doesn't really match Kaan's at closer inspection. I also modeled the...

Sure thing, from what I understand, it's TUBITAK's hand-rolled version of an end-to-end machine learning platform. ML/Data scientists, software engineers at various institutions across Turkey doing critical basic science and (defence) R&D probably used (or wanted to use) commercial MLaaS...

Yeah HD is marketing speak in that context, current DAS is less than 1MP (he might mean that the stitched image is HD, which is true). At 41 seconds, you can see the Northrop rep holding a mockup unit. Wide and tall but not that deep. Plus, we really don't know the scale of IRIS-300.

From the F-16 Forum: "[...] Key attributes are dual-band MWIR (3–5 mm) and LWIR (8–10 mm) using a 640x512 FPA. Each sensor measures ~7x5x4in (18x13x10cm = 2400cm³), weighs ~9lb (4kg) and consumes less than 20W [...]" So the DAS sensors units aren't that large, and this source is quite old. It...

Yeah probably covering their bases for RR FADEC, MB seats, etc.

I had a chat with the TEI and TRMotor folks way back at Ankara Teknofest. I asked one engineer at TRMotor about rumors on assistance from IVP for the APUs, and they weren't shy to admit that they indeed had. As for TEI, and this came up organically when talking about the TF10k, one engineer said...

Hearing TAI talk about this commercial passenger aircraft (that isn't a helicopter) worries me. I think competing in the commercial civil aviation sector against the Airbus-Boeing duopoly is a fool's game. Canadian, Russian, and Chinese (state) firms either almost or literally bankrupted...

On a lighter note, I've been upping my rendering and compositing game for my renders of what Kaan might look like after it gets the full stealth treatment. Currently building my own fully rigged model using paralay's CAD drawings from the Secret Projects Forum. Practicing on Fat Amy for the time...

Blob and his ilk have been served a federal corruption indictment: BBC NYT Indictment

There are different types of licences for proprietary software, even Windows has a source code sharing program for eligible organizations. Even if ASELSAN doesn't have full source access to INTEGRITY, they were almost certainly provided extensive documentation on private/public APIs, and a full...