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F-110 is neither stealth(important) nor has the supercruise(not a deal breaker) ability. It doesn't have the required thermal management or RCS reduction of an engine required for the 5th generation. Without an engine that satisfies the thermal and RCS needs of the 5th generation, you can't...

The most up-to-date fighter AESA radar development roadmap. Unfortunately, we can't read it. The first star must be Akıncı and the second one is F-16. The third star might be Kızılelma.

True. Air cooling maxes at 2.3 kW per square meter. Liquid cooling is different though. Special cooling system designed by Aselsan for GaN MMICs. It is behind the paywall you can read the abstract. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9190297

I don't think a bigger AESA can be fit in that nose? RBE2 has 838 GaAs T/R modules. The best that can be done is probably to switch to a similarly sized GaN AESA. BTW neither RBE2 nor APG-83 SABR have necessary capabilities to fully take advantage of Meteor missile.

https://www.meteksan.com/tr/urunler/su-alti-akustik-sistemler/fiber-optik-akustik-algilayici Similar to this.

94.8 Km-Range Direct Detection Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensor http://repository.bilkent.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11693/52809/94.8_km-range_direct_detection_fiber_optic_distributed_acoustic_sensor.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

I can confirm that its MTOW maxes at around 8000kg though the typical mission load will be lower than that. That thing is huge like the Kızılelma according to what I heard but it is only designed as an airbase-based system and is not suitable for TCG Anadolu or aircraft carriers.

I can %100 confirm that they are sandbagging. Otherwise, we won't be developing a ramjet A-A missile for our F-16s. Even though Gökhan will also be integrated into TF-X, the project is first launched with the F-16s in mind. You need long-range sensors to take advantage of such a high-range AA...

Aselsan's MURAD AESA radar with 1000+ T/R module is overkill for the Hurjet trainer version. Hurjet light attack might have MURAD though. TAI should have integrated Aselsan's smaller AESA radar(cut-down version of MURAD) planned for Akıncı if that wasn't canceled.

This is a great step in the right direction.

Sometimes people read too much into it. This thing is connected to a test bench. It is like running windows in safe mode.

This looks a lot bigger than the F-16 AESA and looks to have a lot more T/R modules. IMHO this might be the mock-up of the TF-X/MMU radar antenna. Something will be shown at IDEF'23. The delivery schedule of BURFIS is 2025-2026 period.

You can also see even at the very early stage of the radar project Baykar is involved and radar integration is taken into account for Akıncı and most of the calculations are done accordingly (Top left at the early roadmap).

Power delivery, space allocated, cooling holes for air intake for the cooling system everything is designed with specs provided by Aselsan. You will see Akıncı flying with AESA very soon after Aselsan delivered AESA radar to Baykar and many people will be surprised by the speed of integration...

~1000 GaN T/R modules, 20W max nominal power output per module with transient power spikes up to 30 watts. No other details yet other than the functions like scan, track while scan, missile guidance, SAR/ISAR, GMTI etc.

Yes, Akıncı designed for AESA radar from the scratch. There will of course be modifications but even the size of the nose is calculated with the measurements Aselsan gave Baykar.

Have you ever seen an Akıncı up close? I tell you what it is huge. And the power is not related to engines as Akıncı 2*750hp won't have problems providing power to onboard systems and radars and no one is stopping Baykar to switch to the 950hp engines Akıncı designed for. Most of the power...

Operation IRINI targeted Haftar after Turkiye-UAE relations started improving.

Yes. Since Baykar is involved in the design phase of the radar there will be no problem.

F-16-Akıncı-Kızılelma will use the same radar. There will be differences in the structural parts but not the core radar. The amount of T/R modules will be the same. We will see if the power output or some of the functions of the radar will be limited by the software for UAV use. (speculation on...