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https://turdef.com/article/tusas-offers-aksungur-uav-to-us-border-security This is interesting! Aksungur is being offered to US border security. Well they are not going to find any UAV that can stay in the air for more than 41 hours and convey intelligence and surveillance, non stop day and...

Anka-3 and KE are quite different aircrafts. Anka-3 is subsonic. Being a flying wing, it can not go supersonic. But due to its airframe design, it is theoretically a true Low Observable plane. It should have a very low RCS value, especially when married with TF6000 engine. It will have 2...

Now let’s look at the shape of our SOM-J : This is a totally stealthy design missile. Under the belly of Anka-3 it shouldn’t increase the RCS of Anka-3 to detectable levels. It is in theory external stealthy storage boxes. It has 275km range which makes it a stand off munition. With a LOS...

There are unverified rumours about I Sunnetci’s statement regarding Turkey buying some of the unwanted A400M transport planes. (6 out of 7 with Germany getting the other) There were news that S Korea was offering Spain their trainer aircraft. Spain came back with a counter offer to give them...

When we finished the first 240 plane f16 programme, we had over 300 fighter jets including F4s and F5s. Since f4 and f5 jets were to be retired soon we would have needed more f16s to keep the numbers of non stealth jets ( the work horses of the airforce) at a decent level. Of course, without...

As per Temel Kotil’in own words, TAI, over the years, has lost a good deal of the expertise and workforce that was trained to produce the f16s. We produced 270 aircraft’s for ourselves , including the last 30 planes that were delivered between 2006 to 2012 to make up for the lost ones...

Yours is wishful thinking! This agreement is totally about the F404 engines and its variants. Remember these engines can develop from 10500lbf to 12000lbf dry thrust as shown in Korean, Swedish and Indian versions. The F404 to be assembled at TEI, will be like T700 Blackhawk engines, and have...

https://turdef.com/article/ge-aerospace-extends-cooperation-for-huerjet The last sentence in above news is critical. quote: As the efforts are focused on TEI TF6000/10000 turbofans and KAAN fighter jet's indigenous engine being developed by TRMotor, cooperation with GE Aviation will likely...

Apparently it is claimed that Esad’s wife has lost her fight against leukaemia and passed away! Let us see how this will affect Esad‘s demeanour and approach related to his policies with Turkey. Any life changing loss like that is bound to have a big effect on anyone‘s decision making process...

https://sanayigazetesi.com.tr/3-savunma-sanayii-devi-hurjetin-motoru-icin-birlesti-aralarinda-abdli-sirkette-var/ Let's hope we hear the same for f110 for KAAN. GE and TEI with Turkish Aerospace have agreed to produce, maintain and develop f404 engine at TEI.

I think you will find that it is dictated by monetary value rather than quantity. Below site defines it in different categories from 14 million dollars to 300 million dollars, depending on the type of equipment and services being exported. Whilst congressional approval is needed for ammunitions...

KAAN needs to start resuming flying tests like Hurjet is doing, in order to develop in to a plane that can become a block 10 aircraft. That is number one issue. A second issue is the finalisation of license production agreement of f404 and f110 engines between TAI and GE. If we are to produce...

As you probably know a jet fighter like this being produced from scratch is an ever evolving project. Every single prototype produced will serve the purpose to improve upon the previous one; until it is decided it is mature “enough” to be applied to serial production. Whilst serial production...

There may be some decision making process involved here. In conventional practice UTKU is the engine of choice going forward. But due to behind the frontline operational nature of these howitzers, the hybrid engine is also a good solution. MKE made a point of it with their prototype...

As far as I can recall, this current KAAN will probably make another flight before the end of the year. The second prototype is being built. It should be ready to fly early next year with all the necessary alterations made with the information and data gathered from the initial flights of the...

Without being pedantic, first of all, with turbofan engines on a plane, there is no power but thrust. No we are not giving up on thrust. By increasing bypass ratio slightly, we are making an engine that should in theory operate more efficiently at denser air that gives better thrust levels. So...

F404 and F414 are the epitome of how military turbine engines can be made to be reliable. The F404 has a version called F412 with a very large inlet fan. This is a non afterburning engine specifically made for A-12 Avenger 2 plane. This engine developed very high thrust due to the large fan it...

Well , taking below picture as basis This picture on my screen measures with my engineers’ compass, 104mm long with 28.7mm fan width. if the length of the engine is as stated in TEI site, 2250mm , then pro-rata the fan diameter is 620mm. That overlaps well with your 624mm measurement. Re: your...

Can you give a source for that please ? If that is the case then it makes all the difference. Accodng to TEI’s site the width is 86cm and the height (which includes all the other paraphernalia) is 110cm. So one would think the diameter is close to 86cm. But if it is 62.4cm as you say , then...

I remembered some of these facts having been mentioned in a forum by you. I did a quick search here but could not find it. Can you let me know which post it was? If memory serves, you were mentioning about possibility of Tf6k giving more thrust than it was stated on paper. Without comparing...