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We had facilities for what we needed; if we needed Boron Carbide, we probably had it or establish it. There is no problem with it. What I am saying is that the price of the boron is so minuscule that it doesn't affect the price of the final product. Boron is so worthless that we process it to...

He is quite a shady figure releasing highly biased and often exaggerated information. He said he visited TUSAŞ and was impressed by the size of MMU. MMU was taken to the final assembly line months later. How can you impress by the size if the thing is not even the final line? That was one...

Boron is almost worthless when it comes to price. So it doesn't matter if we have %76 of the world's total reserve or not. The price of boron in production is just a very tiny part of the total production cost; this would be the same for any other country as well since they will buy it from us...

Sharing stuff from Mete Yarar should be banned in this forum.

Oğuz Ergin, who have a lot of student working in defense industries, made a video about this; you can look for it. TUSAŞ is a state-owned company that suffers from some chronic issues just like others. Those are mostly related to efficiency and poor management of human resources. That was...

My question was not, "why landing gears are not retracted" but "why was the landing gear's DOOR closed."

Landing gear being not retracted is general practice for first flights but that does not mean first prototypes are not able to retract the gear.

Does anyone know why does landing gear door are being closed even when gear is extended?

TF-6000 needs some more time. If the Aircraft is revealed before the engine's prototype is even produced, it will use something else. It could be a Ukrainian engine, or since we have a good relationship, it also could be a Rolls Royce engine. Or maybe F404; who knows?

You mean Rolls-Royce. Since Kale Arge didn't make any engine to be working longer than 30 hours, Rolls-Royce is the company that had to make that engine. Experience that Kale Arge is nowhere near TEI that made at least several engines used in drones. I am not sure that TAEC can make such a...

It is related to the engine's dry thrust and has nothing to do with 5th gen. Typhoon, Gripen, and Rafale can do it, and none use the 5th gen engine.

This one is also unlikely, Baykar would release the videos by now if there is a first flight that ended with a normal landing.

First flights are just going around the airfield and land back, so there will be people around, especially when you give NOTAM that causes curiosity. Hiding potential crashes would be easier if you just made it secret. Also, Baykar had over 2k employees, at this level, hiding a thing is really...

It is a niche application. If you need something that requires more than Akıncı, you would use an F-16 because that situation is not so common that it requires you to buy new aircraft. Also, there is Kızılelma on the way who is going to fill that position before Hürkuş-C.

Just as every other military. Look at the F-35, for example, how much change happened and still happening, They are literally changing motors at this stage.

I did not write a single word about TUSAŞ's current quality. Simply we have no information about Hürkuş's rejection since the whole process is anything but transparent. All we can do is combine the information available and opinions from defense industry experts. Hürkuş is not bad aircraft...

You should be angry about TUSAŞ, not TuAF. They had a list of requirements from TuAF and tried to deliver something else. If TuAF stops being picky, companies will lower their quality, as many are monopolies. It is a basic rule of trade.

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He is generally correct when talking about some inside information, but his opinions, on the other hand...

The second picture can not be the first flight. First flights are generally executed with landing gears left down, aircraft take off and made one or two tours around the airfield, then land. It is done for checking basic systems and low-speed profiles. However, in the second picture, there are...