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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.

Twin engine is twice the maintenance. A powerful single engine usually gives more power for the same weight. It also opens the doors for a larger twin engine plane. Things can happen over time, new engines come out three years apart. So there is time for each engine to claim its own market both...

This whole shopping spree should turn into a Kaan sales boom going forward as today's sellers deserve it having handed over their fighters.

Fresh video talking about Anduril's Fury UCAV. 5000 lb weight Mach .95 speed Kızılelma is around 18750 lb for comparison

I want to see Kızılelma F16 or KE Hürjet teaming which can probably happen earlier than KE-EF and KE-Kaan teamings.

Kızılelma needs a better engine to be fully capable but even with a lesser engine it is fearsome as it is expendable.

Current state of range can be misleading as the radar is also developed domestically and its parameters are not probably finalized and can be modified with the limiting factor being the power supply. Or maybe even that is not the limiting factor as they can probably work the radar with more...

This milestone should put more pressure on the TF10000 development timeline

Who cares about how you look to the west? The world is a different place now and Türkiye is way different too. Thinking in the past decades' paradigm is backwards and a losing proposition.

I doubt it. AFAIK Aspilsan import the chemicals. They will most certainly try to make them domestically but there is no indication of it having been achieved as yet, to the best of my knowledge.

Whose puppet is this new one?

14.5% of Türkiye's central government budget goes to interest payment on debt.

I believe this is the third plane sold in Türkiye, the first one was bought by Selçuk Bayraktar and was displayed at Teknofest'25. But the news pieces say this is the first sales in Türkiye. Probably Selçuk Bayraktar's copy is not counted as sales.