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The YF-22 (1990) and F-22 (1997) comparisons seem reasonable to me. Except greatly accelerated of course. I'd bet if the cold war persisted the F-22 would have made its first flight much sooner.

I saw an AN-124 (probably the same one) parked at Istanbul Airport a month ago. I wonder if we're safekeeping it for Ukraine... Cool nonetheless. Edit: Here it is!

As others have mentioned, it's hard to say. It's such a beautiful bird already, but here are a few things we'll definitely/probably see: A low observable nozzle once we ditch the F110s. Slimmer farings around the actuators for the horizontal tails (kinda chunky rn). The tolerances of the...

Here you go. Did this with a bit of GIMP and ImageJ. I used your assumption that the concrete tiles are 4x4m. Definitely not accurate, but measurements kinda make sense. Couldn't correct for lens distortion and non-uniformity of the tiles—let alone parallax.

I never knew the current DAS and EOTS were LWIR+MWIR. Most sources online (F-16 forum, Quora) claim they're MWIR only. I don't have any inside sources, so you're probably much better informed than I am. Thanks again.

Here's a quote from this sensor's sales blurb:

Thanks for the corrections and insight @Windchime. I've added links to your posts for posterity. RIP, the company that built the 2nd part of my username's sake :( (also MOS, but they died a loong time ago) Yes, I recall reading they were using multi megapixel sensors for DAS, I guess that was...

Bayraktar TB3 Makes Its First (Simulated) Flight in HAVELSAN's Malazgirt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think Malazgirt is more exciting news than it first seems. Having a high quality, physically accurate simulation platform...

Yes, and the TF-X will have something similar to both DAS (FSS) and EOTS (BEOS) in addition to IRST and side-facing SAR (and rumored Su-57 style rear facing radar). They really are aiming for the sensor suite equivalent of a meze table for the TF-X. If TAI can pull off anything close to what...

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech, and enabling it. What gets me is the hypocrisy of it all. I consider myself reasonably liberal leaning, but I also know know that a large portion of Sweden would lose their collective sh*t if someone arranged an anti-pride parade and/or...

Also keep in mind that the TF-X also has a DAS equivalent called the Full Spherical Sensing System (FSS) in addition to IRST. Not quite sure what sensor DAS uses (maybe L3's 2Kx2K large format 15µm p.p. MWIR InSb), but ASELSAN is getting there in terms of sensor tech (1280x1024 10µm p.p. MWIR...

I got Midjourney to remix this image of the TF-X's front in context (i.e., I shopped the colorized version of it into the sky) since previous results kept it unpainted. It created lots of results that looked like a cross between F-35 (front), F-22 (mid) and Su-57 (rear) which gave me a decent...

No it's definitely a PowerPC from IBM or Motorola, we don't know its specifics, though.

I'm not an embedded and/or real-time systems engineer, but I know that in so called "hard" real-time systems, each task—be that graphics, sensor fusion, or IFF—must be prioritized and scheduled in terms of importance and frequency. For instance, an absolute deadline of max 1ms for all flight...

The clickbait title says it all. There are far worse out there, but seeing that mistake from a person with such seemingly excellent credentials just rubbed me the wrong way. It's just an empty article with thinly veiled threats on, I'm paraphrasing, "what to do with Turkey" if it does indeed...

Either way, the quality of journalism across the world has fallen drastically. If this is the first draft of history, then it gets an F from me.

Bloomberg: If Turkey Blocks Sweden and Finland, Will NATO Boot Turkey? Washington Post: If Turkey Blocks Sweden and Finland, Will NATO Boot Turkey? Identical articles (read, syndicated) with clickbait titles from Bloomberg and the WP by Greek-American James Stavridis, a, quote, "[...] retired...

I asked Midjourney to imagine the TF-X in the air using style transfer from the images we have of its front. These were the results. My trial ran out. Maybe someone else can take my place? Edit: It's a little unfortunate that, in my excitement to share these images with this community, I forgot...

I roughly translated this page from the TurAF's website (last updated March 2022). TurAF inventory also includes 52 PAC MFI-17 Super Mushshaks, which are probably also used for practice.

Yeah, that's what I feared. A lot of the quality of these strategic technologies seems to simply be a function of decades, even centuries, of experience.