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A rough English translation of "SOM-J, F-35 iç istasyonu için geliştirilen bir seyir füzesi olmakla beraber hem F-16'da hem Milli Muharip Uçağımızın (MMU) iç istasyonunda kullanılabilecek çok yetenekli önemli bir seyir füzemiz. İHA tarafından çoklu taşıma imkanları da sağlayacağı için SOM-J'yi...

Nowhere in your article confirms that TF-X carries SOM-J internally. Turkish Airforce's presentation says that it is carried externally. And your article was published before Turkish Airforce presented their overview of TF-X programme. Sigh. No more reply for you unless you bring up some...

If you have any other evidence than I am happy to be listen. However, there is no point of further discussion if you don't have any source and don't understand that design & engineering of modern combat aircraft are difficult to modify without further delay. Perhaps TF-X can't carry some...

Perhaps not massive enough to carry a SOM-J like a cruise missile. Otherwise, I don't know how could you refute Turkish Airforce's own figure of 1000lbs?

I previously used the term internal payload specifically refers to weapon payload. My apology as I was a little bit baffled as you talked the figures between 9.5t to 10t as F-22 cannot be that high. Hence, I said And indeed you were. I think you are doing an educated guess and I don't...

Do you have any evidence it has happened so TF-X could accomodate more weapon internally since Turkish Airforce presented operational requirements or since SRR or since PDR? I am going with the operational requirements presented by Turkish Airforce.

I think either that's not what he meant or you misunderstood what he said. F-22's internal weapon payload is nowhere near 9.5t and It could carry only a couple of bombs and A2A missiles. I think what you are thinking at the moment is the figure includes internal fuel capacity.

Is this statement factual with any evidence or what you think it has happened. I have you remind you, even though Turkish Airforce's operational requirements were rather ambitious, even the presentation indicated that they didn't expect TF-X to carry SOM-J internally. Aircraft design is not...

I don't think India's problem is imperative population & economic growth to sustain any national aircraft project, but a copious amount of delay due to external & internal factors including the budget allocation issue as Indian military needs a lot of modernisation right now to properly protect...

I came back and asked for completion of CDR, because I heard an interesting story of schism between Turkish Airforce and TAI/Defence Industry Agency of Turkey (SSB). TAI/Defence Industry Agency of Turkey (SSB) have tried to persuade Turkish Airforce to accept non-full stealth, 4.5 gen combat...

I remember Mr. Demir discussed how well PDR activities of TF-X project were carried out around the time CDR of Hurjet was concluded. Also, If you could recall the program schedule presented by Turkish Airforce in '21, almost every milestone was noted, including SSR (System Requirements Review)...

If you could recall the schedule of TF-X that Turkish Airforce presented during Anatolian Eagle 2021, the actual prototype of TF-X KAAN which should come after the conclusion of CDR is expected to make a maiden flight in late 2026 and IOC & FOC are expected to be declared sometime in 2030s. It...

TAI did announce the completion of CDR of Hurjet since it was a big deal as it meant the initial product baseline of Hurjet had been established. I expect the same with KAAN. On schedule, if I remember correctly, CDR of KAAN should be concluded by the end of this year (2024). Between KAAN and...

No news of completion of CDR?

CDR of Hurjet was completed almost 3 years (Mar, 2021). Whatever flying now is EMD aircraft. I remember when TAI released own schedule of Hurjet, the company noted that it would conduct TRR (Test Readiness Review) of Hurjet, yet they have never announced completion of TRR and just flew their EMD...

I understand your intention is good, but rushing & pressuring the engineers to hastily finish a project doesn't always end with the best results. It doesn't matter whether it is war time or peace time. Engineering projects need a reasonable time window to produce a quality product and TAI's...

Turkey needs to replace almost 80+ of T-38 & CF-5, so I fully expect Turkish Airforce to order 80+ of Hurjet AJT. However, the question is would the Turkish gov't stop from there? Light combat aircarft variant of Hurjet is already in consideration and It is not unreasonable to expect Turkish...

It never ends good when the top management hurries engineers to finish a project. Hastily finished engineering projects usually don't produce a quality product which makes the customers unhappy. However, I don't think TAI as an organisation has that kind of culture, unlike Boeing.

As I said, Mr. Kotil either misled the people or simply lied. The head of TAI seems to have a habit of doing this. He initially claimed Hurjet will fly in Dec, 2022 and it didn't fly in that month. Then he claimed March 18, 2023 will the date when Hurjet would take off from the ground, but It...

The UK parliament only agreed to sell BAe Hawk aircrafts to Indonesia on the condition that the aircarft wouldn't be used for internal repression and the UK parliament attempted to revoke the export license of BAe Hawk only after Indonesia was suspected of deploying BAe Hawk aircrafts in East...