Could be. Either way, the indigenous engine won’t be ready to be mass produced before at least 2035. This is pure speculation from my part but a realistic one, I believe, knowing that we never designed and produced an engine of that size before. So we will have no choice but to order Kaan with...
On top of that it's highly unlikely that we will procure 250 Kaans like stated multiple times here, simply because it will be too expensive to buy and maintain. My prediction is that when Kaan finaly enters LRIP, they will drastically reduce the procurement number. For most of our sorties, the...
What did they give of critical importance to Turkiye ? No country in the world will give you their critical tech, and Turkiye will and should do the same. I call absolute BS for those supposed rumors. I hope so, otherwise Kaan is doomed.
I agree with you. We already talked about it before, and I share the same opinion. It makes much more sense to use UCAV’s instead of an armed Hurkus. Pilots are extremely valuable, so we shouldn’t take the risk to send them if a drone can do the job. I believe that armed Hurkus’s were mainly...
There is a solution to that, create something similar to the French Foreign Legion. This way, after a few years of service, foreign combatants will have the possibility to ask for citizenship.