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F16 no more the top gun, long live the new king

So we can use our own developed wepons on the Typhoon which is great. This can open the doors for our ammo sales to other users too.

Typhoon can fill some gap in the Air Force's capabilities but it will not take any pressure off of the Kaan development.

F110 engines won't make Kaan a top stealth fighter so they will probably be sold.

Isn't a Hürjet LCA already planned for 2027, yes it is. Based on this we even offered our Hürjet LCA to Malaysia against the T50 but we were still in development so we lost. If the Malaysians knew that we would progress so rapidly they would have probably chosen Hürjet instead. We had even...

With all this money going to the Typhoons probably new F16 are already ditched an F35 is unlikely.

The payment for the planes will probably be made over a number of years.

Yes they are just the miners, there are also those who have the reserves but are not meaningfully mining it like is Türkiye. Statistics about refiners are scarse but China is the top one followed by Russia. Sponge state is ready to be melted into the ingot blank you need.

By giving their production slot today they may be looking to secure a Kaan production slot for when the time comes.

They should find a western country to make engines for them to strike Russia. While Russia is far away from them it is our next door neighbor.

So it's not all about the money ha!

Finally a promising step for general aviation in Türkiye; 13 air camps in 11 counties around Türkiye has be designated and more to come. These camps are meant to have the amenities aviators want to have. The promising bit in the news is that they want to spread air camps to the 922 boroughs...

Isn't this unbelievable! "To put the importance of titanium to the defense sector in context, consider the F-22 air superiority fighter. Generally considered the best fighter in the world, it uses more titanium than any other US Air Force aircraft, over 9,000 lb, or approximately 42% by weight."

Titanium miners 2024

There is some news about Glock which is the biggest competitor of Turkish made hand guns in the US and in the world. In a nutshell Glock is in trouble in the US; like a dozen states have sued Glock for their pistols being very easily modifiable to run in full automatic mode which is not allowed...

I have been looking for this information since yesterday, thanks for sharing. Türkiye has a respectable 90 million tons of titanium reserves while world reserves are at 1.23 billion tons. https://turkbor.com.tr/titanyum-tozu/

When you make the plane yourself you are only bound by how many you want to make. The US made 48.000 planes in a year during WW2. Compared to only a couple hundred a couple thousand is unlimited.

Baykar takes the max power as 195 hp as was written on their Teknofest stand TB3 poster. 1200hr overhaul and 162kg weight are fantastic numbers for such a powerful aviation diesel engine. It is a good time to be an aviation entrepreneur as pretty much everything you need is already out there.

Even TB2 comes back

An unlimited number of Kızılelma and Anka3 can shift the balance of air power to our side in 3 years before any new foreign jet can be inducted.