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TF-10000 update A scaled version of the afterburner stage is produced and tested. TF-10000 with a fully integrated afterburner will be tested in 2026. Early availability in 2027, serial production in 2028. TF-35000 Some early tests will be conducted in 2026, no other updates as of now.

Good find. Makes sense, Aselsan is taking the same direction.

The pod will be able to send data (video stream, targeting coordinates) to multiple receiver without using aircrafts own datalinks like Link 16, T-link, etc.

I can't because the Akbaba project is classified, but the information came from someone well-known who visited the test squadron and saw the Akbaba missile. I think this much info and hinting is enough for everyone.

Aselpod 2 is progressing smoothly. It will have an IRST function, multiple datalinks, and will have network capability.

Yes, I have. Rocketsan's solid fuel ramjet is fired from an F-16 in the scope of Akbaba project. Roketsan's solid fuel ramjet is like %90 ready. Gökbora will also progress fast both Akbaba and Gökbora use nearly the same engine. Tubitak needs some more time but not much.

Roketsan conducted the first-ever in-air ramjet firing (solid fuel ramjet similar to MBDA Meteor's ramjet engine). Tübitak is getting close to airborne tests with its liquid fuel ramjet engine.

This is what we are dealing with in Turkiye. High treason at the highest levels of the state.

There is no FCAS and there is also no French ACE.

Yes, I have. It doesn't matter what project owners declare; I have eyes and I can see clearly. Those fighters you mentioned don't have adaptive cycle engines; their geometry doesn't support wide-spectrum stealth. These two can't be added later on. Currently, only China and the US are developing...

Tempest and FCAS are not 6th gen. Russia should develop a proper 5th gen first.

Only the US and China will have real 6th gens. Other projects are more like 5.5th gen that can be achieved with KAAN project.

This guy is cooking Koreans over their remarks on Kaan project. He is listing major outsourced subsystems of KF-21. https://x.com/T_Nblty KF-21 looks worse than I first anticipated. They are not selling this aircraft to anyone the US doesn't want.

For Turkiye, Thorium molten salt reactors is a more realistic target than fusion reactors. Fusion research is insanely expensive and to this day no fusion power plant produces more electricity than it consumes. There are a few reactors that managed to slight net positive energy if we exclude...

Yes.

Nothing is surprising here. Erdoğan will sell Cyprus overnight if it means he can stay in power.

BMC could have produced the Batu powerpack faster, but the transmission part was delayed around nine months, so it slipped to Q4 2026/Q1 2027. Currently, endurance tests are continuing on the BATU prototype. Being serial production-ready is one thing, and actually getting the product with the...

Eurofighter is not just an interim solution, as many suggested. It will replace F-4s. F-35s were supposed to replace F-4s and form a high-low mix with Kaan; now Eurofighters will do that. The second-hand part of the Eurofighter deal is an interim solution. By the mid 2030s, Kaan will be an...