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One thing I find curious: the maiden flight lasted 13 minutes. To my memory, this is unusually short. It makes me wonder whether - the object was simply to get the aircraft to fly for publicity reasons (useful in campaigning for the upcoming election) - confidence was low, so minimal time...

Mmmm... Just last year the people of the UK opened their wallets and donated about $175 million to a country that had suffered a natural disaster. How much do people from your society spontaneously give to people different to them religiously who are in need of help after a disaster? By the...

Understood. Inaccurate reporting. Are there any signs that TR6000 is nearing its first run?

You do make me laugh.

Given what is written above, is this report likely to be accurate? https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defense/turkish-engine-maker-says-fighter-jet-power-unit-almost-ready

Will it be easy to swap the F110 for the TF-35000 in KAAN airframes built using the F110? If that is the case, does it matter so much if initial batches of KAAN have to be fitted with the F110? Ideally it would be better to fit all production KAAN with TF-35000 but if the engine is not ready...

>I think that the chances of a 35,000 lb thrust domestic engine being ready in 2028 are extremely low.

Congratulations to TAI and all contributors to Kaan's development. And congratulations to Turkiye for taking on a 5G project and getting it into the skies.

F/A-18 will be out of production soon. A few years ago I read that KAI foresaw a navalised KF-21 being developed. India's Tejas N proved to have inadequate capabilities for the IN and was abandoned, to be replaced by a proposed Twin Engined Deck Based Fighter design. The TEDBF may be...

I get your long term view. Short term things look very different Today's spot rate is 1 USD = 31 lira 1 year forward rate is 1 USD = 44 lira Figures are rounded. When is this strengthening of the lira starting? When are the exciting times coming?

Why? My country could have more carriers but why would it want them? OK, one more would be useful so that there was always one not being refitted or being serviced/repaired. But I can't see the need for the UK to have loads of carriers. I can't see the need for Turkiye to have loads of carriers...

Turkiye needs several carriers, partly to secure its interest in the Indian Ocean?

I see a market possibility for a non-Russian/non-Chinese cheaper 5G fighter but Sukhoi does not seem to have attracted much interest while marketing its low cost 5G Su-75 to potential customers. Is it because countries don't want to buy from Russia any more (due to Ukraine) or is it because I...

Why not just buy the right to use the British Queen Elizabeth II carrier design and build it in Turkiye? France considered doing that to replace its Charles de Gaulle carrier. Perhaps it is too large for Turkiye, though @ 65,000 tonnes. Cost of building the second carrier of that design was...

I think Navalny was killed. I also think that with his death died any prospects of organised resistance to the corrupt, authoritarian Russian regime. Even if Putin dies or is overthrown, he will probably be replaced by another corrupt, authoritarian dictator. I don't know how vicious was the...

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-plans-to-buy-turkish-kaan-fighters/ Anything in what he says? Is Ukrainian industry involved in developing an engine for KAAN? On a different tack, first run of the TF6000 has been awaited for some time. Will it simply be announced when it has happened, rather...

A minor error to point out. You have referred to Mariupol as being in Russia. Only Russia, North Korea and Syria concur with you. The other 193 members of the UN, including Turkiye and Indonesia, do not. By my reckoning Mariupol is more likely to be in Ukraine.

LOL A member of my extended family - a Ukrainian living in Kherson - died after the kind hearted Russians invaded. I think you know very little about what has happened in Ukraine. If your country was invaded by a neighbouring country, you would describe Indonesians 'bullying' invading troops...

Very nicely illustrates the situation. PS I look forward to reading you condemning abuses of human rights by all actors, not just the ones you oppose.

Sorry, just quoted inaccurate source. I retract the query about MTOW and wing area.