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Tolga Özbek reported a timeline similar to mine. What I heard is that TAI will deliver the first fighter in the 84th month and will deliver all 48 fighters before the 120th month (48 fighter in 36 months, TAI wants to complete deliveries ahead of schedule before the 120th month) . Indonesia...

Holy crap that is so different from what i heard.

This is not news. TAI wants to do the first flight of the first second prototype just before 2025 ends in a similar fashion to the first prototype(they still can), but a more realistic date is January to March. This has always been the case. December to January is 1 month, December to March is...

All 48 Indonesian Kaans will be delivered in 120 months (June 2035) . Indonesia also has an option for +12 fighters. TAI plans to deliver the last fighter in 2034 before the official deadline. All Indonesian fighters will have a national turbofan engine and all the fighters will have block 30...

It is operated at %80 of the thrust most of the cruise phase to sustain the cruise speed. Only acceleration and final terminal approach uses the full 3200 N thrust. At %80 thrust fuel consumption value is different. I might be wrong on 271 kg due to it being hearsay(i heard from someone in the...

KTJ 3200 has a service life of 17 hours and consumes roughly 271 kg of fuel per hour at max thrust. SOM uses JP-10 fuel with a density of 0.94 g/cm^3. 271 kg of JP-10 fuel needs a volume of 288 liters. This is a problem as SOM is 4 meters long and you need something like 200cm x 40cm x 38cm...

The best part of this test is the hot stage separation. 200km altitude is trivial.

It is not just the engine. There is extensive nationalization of components.

I hope the Azerbaijan deal includes Turkish weapons and subsystems.

YIHA-III is an extremely cheap drone. It is basically a pipe with wings, and it has the cheapest pipe, wing, and propeller you can get. I wouldn't be surprised if unit price is something like 5k USD.

Arca should have invested a lot more in R&D. No advanced explosive production, no fuze production, no new product development. They are just producing vanilla products. Assan invests heavily in advanced capabilities and develops new projects. ASSAN Group continues to fill explosive materials...

Someone is really concerned about Assan improving in a lightning fast pace. After Assan acquired Dynaflow, Assan can now produce both the bomb, filling (RDX, HMX, TNT, PBXN, composite explosives), and fuze. A direct threat to MKE and another newly found company Arca. Arca has serious influence...

Who cares what the Indian press says? They are the least reliable source of information.

According to a study done by Avrasya Araştırma polling company (CHP leaning company), Mansur Yavaş wins 54 provinces out of 81 in a race between Tayyip Erdogan, Mansur Yavaş, Selahaddin Demirtaş, and Fatih Erbakan. Erdoğan wins 15 provinces while Demirtaş wins 12, Erbakan wins none.

BTW, it doesn't matter how much you pay, no one transfers armor technology. Korean technology transfer angle is bullshit. What they transferred is base technologies that are used for developing your own armor solution. Developing cutting-edge armor is really difficult. You need many...

Composite armor consists of several different layers, like Al2O3 (Alumina), B4C (Boron Carbide), SiC (Silicon Carbide, TiB2 (Titanium Diboride), etc. Roketsan probably outsourced either raw materials or tiles for all of the layers at the beginning, and one by one nationally developed armor-grade...

According to the latest polls, CHP is far ahead of AKP. Somehow, AKP managed to make it worse with peace process 2.0 and Ekrem İmamoğlu trials. Who would have thought? Erdoğan should hang the advisors who advised those genius moves. It seems like Bahçeli will destroy Erdogans political career...

Hurjet will also have an armed and a naval version. IMHO, armed Hurjet and naval Hurjet need a stronger engine ,either F414 or EJ200 can be candidates in this regard, until Baykar's 20000lb engine comes into the equation.

According to this, Roketsan will only provide add-on armor for T1.

This is a known issue for those who follow the Altay project closely. T1 was never supposed to have the Turkish armor. It seems like they are sticking to that. Roketsan demonstrated its own armor solution via live firing tests, but demonstrating that capability is one thing; mass producing...