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Bro who cares, haters gonna hate. India gets lot of hate from milestones too, it is what it is. Just get stuff done and prove the haters wrong. Simple.

Relative finishing touches for later.

If the canopy juts up above the planform/mantle of the aircraft, then the top down and side RCS is affected somewhat by the smoothing (the spine basically that is behind the canopy). The canopy glass etc itself is no problem to RCS, its a bad radar reflector. TF-X is a big aircraft already and...

Not really as RAM provides the final steps after what shaping has done in major way first. Shaping is by far the major bulk of the RCS reduction exercise in 5th gen. So I was talking about the shaping aspect and its measurement as it exists in this stage of Kaan's dev....in this case a flight...

It looks ready to me from first impression. The 2nd picture is with the accessory drive/gearbox (and fuel pumps, lines etc) so that is how it would look for when you mount it on aircraft that has these needs from/to the engine. Aircraft-engine interface stuff you can say. Those are not...

Oscar saying its unconfirmed speculation at this point. Let's see, give it some more time etc. We need to hear from the official govts.

A fighter jet program is simply not developing a jet but the scientific research that goes into the associated tech and establishing the required supply chain. After our LCA Tejas Mk-1 which used several Israeli, Russian, French and American sub-systems, majority of it were indigenized in the...

Yes for the first test flight, wheels all down. Wheels up is for next test flights....so we might see a luneberg lens then if its taking a longer circuit with more radar emission site possibility etc. I guess they will run it well inside interior near Ankara this time again anyway, so it might...

Simplistic take given the upfront capital costs amortized on just 90 now....including the AESA radar (not found on Su-35). Good luck getting a Su-35 "new" for 100 million bucks these days heh. Demand pulling that away from Russian production line given Ukraine war ....will be at least double...

https://www.isro.gov.in/Successful_completion_Human_rating_CE20_Cryogenic_engine.html Successful completion of Human rating of CE20 Cryogenic engine for the Gaganyaan Programme February 21, 2024 ISRO has accomplished a major milestone in the human rating of...

With Pawan Chandana, CEO, Co Founder Skyroot aerospace, we get a tour of their facility showing how the upcoming Vikram 1 rocket is progressing, its stages and details, how they engineer stuff and solve problems

The landing gears were down all flight anyway....might have served same purpose and then we see them pop on for say next flight with landing gears up in flight. I just might not be eagle-eyed enough to spot anything else they did too. But if Turkish radar operators are all synced up with the...

It's truly a great accomplishment. But it was only a matter of time once the prototype first rolled out. I don't see a luneberg lens, so I guess low RCS may have got verified up in the air for first time. There will be a huge amount of debrief and analysis for lot of av-geeks to do in general...

How much do you want to party? On a level of 1 - 10... Turks on this thread: YES

Definitely very capable aircraft for its price level no doubt. I just don't trust this source, bigger sources would have given a big lead up for a cpl weeks (this and that guy is visiting Azerbaijan etc)

Where's @Ripley been lately? I wanted to see his reaction lul.

The pictures are great! Congratulations to Turkish nation 🇹🇷

ugh not this clownish twitter account yet again heh. Just in time for the huge PAF corruption scandal that's been leaked to a journalist. Gee the timing.... :rolleyes:

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2007465

Amazing to watch the stage re-land each and every time like clockwork: SpaceX has 90% of the launch market (by total mass to orbit) right now for a reason. India is developing something here (re-land stage wise), lets see how it goes....but catching up with spaceX (and its future + economy...