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Are deliveries of Tejas Mk1A going to start in March?

Yes, Tempest can be expected to be very expensive. The GCAP programme is in definition phase. In 2025 the partners are scheduled to decide on whether or not to proceed to development. I am not sure if KSA will want to trade another Typhoon order for some sort of involvement in the GCAP program.

Beware what you read in the Indian press. KAAN is not ready to storm world markets, is it? Perhaps 5 years down the line when it is tested and certificated... About KSA becoming involved in KAAN: does KSA want to be involved in a 5G programme when 6G GCAP should be available less than 10 years...

Apologies. My mistake. I think I have confused airliner maiden flight durations with fast jet maiden flight durations.

It says 9 soldiers who were lying down on the ground were shot. Russians have executed at least 16 Ukrainian prisoners in the past week. Their tally of war crimes keeps rising.

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...