Actually I am more interested in what components we will be using that are imported and if it can be made totally in Turkey. Looking at the specs it may very well be totally Turkish made I guess.
Planes use lesser power in cruise than in take off, some of the power can be allocated to the radar during cruise. There needs to be a bigger alternator or some pre-charged battery capacity to supply power to the radar. Radar may also be used intermittantly to save power.
A bomber for delivery of precision missiles to long ranges. You never know what is enough and wether you need more. It maybe more suitable to carry missiles halfway before you release them for the rest of the way to fly on their on power. It differs from a drone in its payload capacity and speed...
A variant of TFX with two engines can be optimized for bomber tasks however one with four engines will be more capable carrying probably missiles as well for long reach. Looking at American, Russian and Chinese bombers.
It is probably just you being skeptical.
The counterpart wants to make it easy and just deal with one party selling the package rather than many. So the vendor of the main platform acts as the main contractor and coordinates the delivery of the peripheral components that go with their product...
A plane landing on a short strip needs to be able to fly slowly, generally speaking. A fast plane may not be able to slow down enough to land on the short strip. I am guessing.
Hopefully there wont be much time between the subsonic model and the supersonic one of the MIUS.
I guess the subsonic model should be the carrier capable one while the supersonic model lands on land.
As long as money flows in the projects and payload customers can be found it can happen in a timely manner. It will depend on military satellite projects which can not be outsourced to foreign launchers as well as civilian customers.
Turkey is transitioning from a defensive position to a proactive position. The tools in our hands are not perfect yet but given the situation the leadership is doing brilliantly, despite all the challenges
There is no such thing as disrupting everything from military to economy to diplomacy to geopolitics and still being on the best of terms with counterparts.
Şimşek II is announced the first time and it marks the phase when Turkey can be a player in space launch of satellites, space probes and cargo to space stations. I wonder what the timeframe will be for it.