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The conflict ends with Türkiye's victory, France continues shrinking.

Turbines work with their best efficiency between 90% and 100+% throttle but for some reason the UK went for a twin RR engine. Probably because it is UK made instead of American. Same applies to us if we can have our own engines we can mix and match as we wish. Smaller engines with large engines...

What do you mean, diesel versus turbine efficiency?

Because we need to use the whole length of the ship to launch some of our planes as we will not have catapults on the first incarnation of the ship. We do have an angled runway but it is angled inwards not outwards.

On the AC turbine propulsion: A possible marine version of the upcoming Kaan engine will likely have more power than the GE LM2500 engines so a shift from 4 turbine engines to 2 turbines like the HMS QE2 can be possible given the amount of time there is to the building timeline of the MUG.

So we can't afford the gas the ship will burn, then we should stop having a navy altogether. UK ships are gas powered too. Until a nuclear propulsion becomes available we can have a ship that has everything else. We have other strong sides like UAVs to compensate for lack of nuclear propulsion...

That seems to be the intent. Some may argue Kaan is too big for shipborne operation but there is no solid arguement against it.

May sound weird but the site resisted me when I wanted to add that same source, asking for maybe a twitter.com domain instead of x.com, not sure.

The US is looking for fast VTOL flyers. We need such flyers too. One that can fly from the helicopter port of any navy ship and can reach half a mach or more...

Americans are testing them already...

Hürjet test pilot says they will expand Hürjet's flight envelope beginning this May.

It would probably be inconvenient to make the ship adaptable to both turbine and nuclear as their requirements may be vastly different which I am not aware of. So this one ship is to be made with today's tech and a future ship can be made with the latest tech we will have in the future. Better...

This is an intermediate ship until a future nuclear propulsion AC becomes possible as otherwise you need to wait longer to have an AC. A lower power EMALS can be made to fly smaller planes up to Hürjet size. A ship that can fly Kaan can only be made with nuclear propulsion. You make the ship...

That same AC will have unmanned fighters that the opponents have not matched as of yet. Some may argue that our Kızılelma or Anka3 have not matured yet but I should remind them that we are expecting them to come out of production line in a year.

I should say expansion of planes capabilities in many respects. The plane has to handle everything to a safe degree before they can push it further. This is also the first manned jet the company is making so the pace of progress is acceptable if not fast, I should say.

2000+ hours for an average civilian aircraft AFAIK.

Why do you have to be warring with the US or China with this AC.

It depends on what they are doing in every flight, whether big chunks or small bits of envelope expansion is in question, production time being brought nearer says something.

Hürjet is only 60% of an F16, does this make it a big plane, NO. Kaan is 240% of an F16, yes Kaan is a big plane, alright. Planes rated by their engine power.

Small planes launched by small catapults come with a small price tag. Good thing we have made a good start with unmanned planes.