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All your arguments suggest we shovel money into mouths of the enemy. Those weapon makers are to stand in front of us as enemies. And those weapons can only be used against their enemies and not ours. Hard work for an organization means putting more man hours and resources on projects and not...

It says defence industry and not defence procurement, reporting may be inaccurate though.

We are talking about something that is totally up to Turkish engineers performance and the leadership that leads them. Hard work and more resource allocation can speed things up by a good margin. While this is a fact getting in costly long term engagements is only political and not rational. It...

In 5 years we will be getting our Kaan powered by our TF35K engine, we better not touch somebody else's weapons. The world is changing but our TSK want to stick to old school.

Niger is using competition as a bargaining chip but they know very well that they are to be the first one to go that path, Saudi Arabia walked that path backwards. Looking at Lentatek website you can easily tell that Karayel is not well developed, standard features on TB2 are yet to be developed...

If they have not changed to Rotax recently Karayel used some other engine, iirc Continental, and it was 80hp not 100, hence the 120 kg payload rather than the 150kg TB2 carries. There is no mention of an engine in Lentatek website, so 80hp it is.

Having two different aircraft with different parts will make complications compared to having just one.

They probably wanted to buy at the price level of their previous order and didn't take dollar inflation into account. Karayel is different and it will be a logistical nightmare for Niger down the road.

TEI's engine doesn't need to be cutting edge, it is OK if it is even comparable to GE's existing engine which I guess there isn't one in that power class. Who even needs to compare ones own work to somebody else's foreign work.

We know that TEI are working on a 3000hp turboshaft engine but what we don't know is if they will be working on a turboprop from that engine too.

This is fantastic news. This will likely be still a twin engine plane yet a single engine plane made from this engine will still be a capable one.

In training mode you decrease the wear and tear on the plane by limiting its high performance features. You also need to train pilots quickly at times of pilot shortage, like we see in Ukraine.

Of course not but serial improvement of everything about it is.

You can use a non coated version of Kaan, can't you.

You can afford that much, it is scientific development after all and can pay off greatly. It is the best investment you can invest your money in and remember how we have already progressed in that field within a short few years. You can of course add more life to a plane by simply doing parts...

19 days is a long time, I wonder if they have to get in a queue before they cross the Suez Canal.

What is holding you from adding hours to a plane's life, it is your plane that you have made.

You can invest more on the one platform you have and take every pilot and every engineer in to top shape and the plane itself with continuous development rather than losing time with special training planes and you are better off. I know it hasn't been like this so far, I can tell you that as I...

That saves you from developing or buying separate planes for training. Combined with the fact that simulators can play a big role in training and the fact that national planes comes cheaper than imported ones when they are made in big numbers. And planes having smarts to not put the plane in...

I am talking about a highly automated plane training the trainee, like when Kaan can fly itself it can fly the trainee alone, eliminating the need for a separate jet trainer.