NATO is the reason we were left in the dust while the world progressed. With good leadership we could be 20 years ahead of where we are now, with local technology above 97%. NATO provided some security but made us farmers and servants that served the rich western alliance.
I wonder if the Murad can be tested on one of the Kaan prototypes skipping a makeshift test-bed plane altogether. Probably a little low on the power supply but isn't there an APU already.
There is ups and downs in everything but navigating to a high ground among too many pitfalls that the enemy paved in many decades is nothing but brilliant. Today Türkiye is at over 80% self reliant and looking to become 95% in the next 5 years. Look at other nations who are in free fall to know...
Türkiye is not one solid body. If you will remember there was even a parallel state. No one who has the vision to be a self reliant pole in a multi-polar world will buy into a project like the F35. Yes, the military with all the influences on it and lacking a vision for independence may have...
Not really.
We had already produced the central section composite for the F35 so we had nothing to learn for composites. AFAIK a Turkish company made the display of the F35 for them, so nothing in there either. I would say we were better off not even looking at the plane. The timing of the S400...
F35 customers have to be US allies and the US will not let its allies buy other stuff but those who do not have to rely solely on the US will buy Kaan if they can.
I have to rightfully make an insertion as this point. When the TJ3200 engine was being worked on I had started learning how to sketch 3D and sketched a TJ3200 equivalent engine. At a trade-show when I saw the Kale team engineers I mentioned my design and what pressure ratio it would provide but...
The cost of investment we made in our F35 involvement is not reason enough to keep attached to it. It is a losing deal for anyone but the US and Israel. Türkiye's only path forward is 100% self reliance. It will only be 2-3 more years before we see the fruits of our efforts in every field. We...
Arat is the name for Gezgin missile and Gezgin would best be equipped with a turbofan engine but they chose to squeeze in another turbojet instead of making a turbofan in time, rendering the turbofan engine an engine for future missiles.
3 -8 times as difficult; your power turbine needs to generate enough power to drive both the fan and the compressor which means 2 or 3 concentric shafts and a hotter running engine. You also need 2-3 sleeves to separate gas streams. There are various degrees of complexity to turbofan engines as...
Speed issue is tied to lack of engines and money issue is tied to lack of speed. We need 5 years to remedy these issues. Until that time sales will keep being slow while improving gradually.