Azerbaijan Air Force personnel in Pakistan undergoing training in preparation of deliveries, Air Force is estimated to have 24 JF-17 Block 3s on order.
NGAD program was put on pause in the summer for about half a year due to changing requirements
"The design concepts and requirements for NGAD are already “several years old,” Kendall explained, and new threats are evolving so quickly that those design requirements may now be outdated. NGAD was...
thats exactly why LM and NG wasn't selected, United States wants to maintain multiple producers for national security instead of relying on 1 or 2 contractors.
Considering Kizilelma hasn't even had any weapon tests yet or integration of any optical system, what point would it even serve in TuAF?
Anka-3 is in far further development, and TuAF can put it to use in hostile airspaces of Syria and Iraq to test its stealth capabilities.
Kizilelma still seems to be in early development, Toygun EOTS and Murad AESA haven't even been integrated, and we haven't even seen internal weapon bay tests
Most likely will be WS-15, WS-10 was designed to be a stop gap measure until the much more powerful WS-15 could enter service, Future J-20A and S will be using WS-15, so it only make sense for other future aircraft to also use WS-15
Elbit to open 2 new manufacturing facilities in Azerbaijan, including production of drones, most likely loitering munitions, such as SkyStriker
https://poliqon.az/poliqon-herbi-kosmik-texnoloji-jurnalinin-5-73-2024-sayi/
Saudis love announcing these grandiose numbers, but never actually happening,
100 Kaans and several hundred Kizilelmas is like a 40 billion dollar contract, Trump will most likely happily sell them F-35s
what void? There is Tolun, and a family of guided bombs from 500 lb to 2000 lbs, the only void is a longer range cruise missile such as Som-ER in 500km range
These discussions about 3 engines is pointless, we have 0 idea about requirements of this aircraft and what its trying to achieve.
The requirements might be to achieve 3+ mach speeds to get in through Carrier Battle Groups defenses fast, release anti-ship missiles and get out.
WS-15 is a...