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The wellbeing of our drones is important. They're gonna become sentient soon. :cool: 😂

Don't expect KIZILELMA to engage in dogfights anytime soon. Just shoot and scoot. Why risk getting a lock-on when you're stealthier than your opponent?

Is this the first time we(indigenously) flew an unstable airframe?

We are very excited for our new highly-advanced platforms like KIZILELMA or TFX. However, these aircrafts are not tested or proven themselves yet. TFX, for instance, is better than F35. But only on paper. It will have go through excruciatingly painful testing processes and most of the problems...

We're getting live update 😂 I wonder when they're going to install the control surfaces.

Can GÖKDENİZ ER or LEVENT be integrated to our USVs in the future?

Have you ever thought about what engine classes should TEI derive from their expanding turbine catalogue. What I mean by this, take TS1400 for instance, you could say TEI should have 5 different engines derived from this core. One is the same size turboprop version, second is a 900hp turboprop...

I don't know about the "expensive" part but I also think it has to do with Ukrainians. Or to do with the company "Black Sea Shield", to be exact. Baykar could, potentially, renege on the deal, citing the supply risks and issues caused by the Russian-Ukrainian War but I'm not sure if they'd...

People, rather enthusiastically, say KIZILELMA will be the real deal with TF6000 but we have never heard BAYKAR making any reference to TF6000 yet. someone should direct this question to Selçuk Bayraktar in an interview and get his thoughts.

AT LEAST (it should've been capital letters.)

If you don't mind me asking, did you use simple controllers like a PID for preserving the temperature or you'd have to use more sophisticated optimal control techniques or something?

Let's go with bullet by bullet. Will these features be standard on TFX or will it have the ability to upgrade or none at all? Advanced digital capabilities including high-capacity networking, AI, data fusion, cyber warfare, D2D and battlefield command, control and communications (C3)...

Maybe someone should give us a clear definition on what constitutes a 6th gen fighter. What makes the aircraft 6th gen but not 5th? The line between 4th gen and 5th gen is clear but not with 6th gen and 5gen. To me, it's a sales pitch. Anyone wants to take the bullet and give us his opinion on...

To be sure, what we knew as EİRS(Erken İhbar Radar Sistemi) renamed as ERALP, right? Those are not different radars?

I'd say because of the requirements. TUAF wants high range(bigger fuel tanks), big weapons in IWB, very powerful sensors and twin engines. And when you add the possible inclusions of 6th gen technologies like laser weapons in the future, you don't have much option other than to go big. Mind you...

I drew a quick sketch on Inkscape to compare the height of various 5th gen platforms. The lines are to scale. TFX seems to be the tallest by a wide margin. I wonder if our plane will have built-in ladder like the one in F35. Edit: I forgot about AMCA. The Indian aircraft is 4.5m tall...

For the non-Turkish audience, I transcripted Temel Kotil's ten minutes speech and Google-Translated to English. I did small changes that seemed off. Translation could be improved but you'll get the gist of it. "They showed it in the 60's when I was touring(Lockheed Martin). They designed...

I don't wanna jinx it or anything but the projects progress in lightning speed. Too fast even. The aviation sector of Turkey has the perfect execution, imo. They know our weaknesses and plan for them ahead. But regardless of the excellence so far, we're gonna hit a stone wall at some point and...

I wonder what happened with the fleet supply vessel deal. It had a multi-billion dollars figure.

According to this twitter account(seems reliable, followed by Arda Mevlütoğlu, Kubilay Yıldırım, Abdullah Şentürk etc.), TFX's mid section with the wings was manufactured vertically as a single piece. It weighs 4 tonnes. And the aircraft will be comprised of 4 main sections. F35 is produced...