I mean clearly with so many dependencies it doesn't look like a great stop gap that helps with risk reduction and won't be delivered soon enough to matter, where we could make early KAAN variants to similar standards.
Our problem is we have a limited budget. R&D takes money and time but so does finalizing a product and establishing production lines. If we spread the budget and work force too thin to make new prototypes, we won't have resources to focus on establishing enough serial production lines for those...
The population of entire scandinavia is 27 million. Israel is a country with small population as well. Small countries next to significant adversaries conscript women because they have no other option.
I am curious about AKREP. It is told to be 100km+ fire control radar. Wonder if it can help guide siper 2 to its max range as well. That would be nice.
Completely disagree. You are too out of touch with majority of the nation to say that. You just gotta see the level of sexism in average conscript dormitory. Though it would be good education for most to learn how to behave around woman, it would take resources from the army, not help it. We do...
Well yes but a quarter of what KAAN can carry may be more than other planes with lower thrust to weight ratio can. At least its got two huge engines. A single engine plane might be even more dependent on Catobar if it isn't magic airframe like Gripen or something
By the time we build aircraft carrier, sam systems and 5th generation aircraft will be even more common. Hürjet, or even twin engine something based on Hürjet ( ie F18 A/B copy) is simply not good enough and not worth building an aircraft carrier for. Even the drones that accompany it are low...
Well you still need a naval trainer too so, making a variant with operational capacity wouldn't hurt as a stopgap, until eventually a Naval Kaan or whatever proper plane is planned.
