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If you read those open articles you'd know how advanced of a machine F-35 is. We're lucky if we can approximate the performance of an F-22 with the domestic engine in the next 20 years. China with tens of billions of dollars, industrial espionage with all the stolen data from JSF project, and an army of students and engineers in the top US/European universities and companies managed to fart out the J-20 with the RCS and the engine nowhere near the F-35. We still don't have a missile with similar performance that of Meteor.

So what should we do, sit down and cry? Or should we drop everything and mourn? What do you want to say?

And the most important question: What do you think we should do? What is your suggested solution?
 
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I am very curious about how to develop domestic flight control computer and software for F16 özgür project
 

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Please stay on topic.
This is

TF-X KAAN | F-16 Özgür | Hürjet | Hürkuş - Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

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Keep political and geopolitical discussions away from this thread.
 

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hürkuş A versus hürkuş B
 

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As per İbrahim Sünnetçi, TAI has finally decided upon a flying testbed. Behold the Global 6000, the same aircraft tasked with fulfilling the requirements of the HAVA-SOJ project.

The aircraft has either arrived or is about to be delivered.


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TEI and GE Aerospace sign F110 MRO service agreement

LE BOURGET, France – TUSAS Engine Industries Inc. (TEI) and GE Aerospace have reached an agreement extending TEI’s license to conduct F110 Depot Level Maintenance services for several countries which operate F-16 & F-15 fighter aircraft. The collaboration will further strengthen ties between TEI and its long-term partner GE Aerospace in military engine services.

 

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Any news about Murad AESA? Is it (smaller form) being tested with Akıncı?

I have heard som semi conductor parts are difficult to import. Is that true?
 

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Georgio Clementi: "A historic day at Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). The first day of the first ever test pilot and flight test engineer course to be held in Türkiye. Twelve students from TAI, the Turkish Air Force, Directorate General Civil Aviation and ASELSAN commenced their journey to a career flight testing fixed wing civil and military aircraft, such as the Hurkus, Hurjet and TF-X National Fighter in the background. Turkish Flight Test Instructors Murat Ozpala and Emre Can Kaya joined the ITPS instructor team setting yet another first for this initiative. The course marks the launch of ITPS Türkiye, the satellite training organization of the International Test Pilots School (ITPS) under a partnership agreement with TAI. TAI is Türkiye's national aircraft manufacturer boasting a growing product line of advanced fixed and rotary wing aircraft. ITPS is the world's biggest independent school of flight testing, now operating two campuses, in Canada and Turkey."
Is there any new information about the Hürkuş-2 project? It feels like there hasn't been any news or updates for months now.
 

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Is there any new information about the Hürkuş-2 project? It feels like there hasn't been any news or updates for months now.
Parts production. Prototyping takes time. And TAI arguably has more important stuff in line.
 

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Parts production. Prototyping takes time. And TAI arguably has more important stuff in line.
So long as it's going forward steadily, and not just borderline abandoned while dealing with Kaan and Hürjet.

And while I understand and agree that they are much more important, especially long term, armed variant of Hürkuş-2 could take a lot of pressure from our aging F-16s and F5s by taking their counterterrorism role over.
 

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So long as it's going forward steadily, and not just borderline abandoned while dealing with Kaan and Hürjet.

And while I understand and agree that they are much more important, especially long term, armed variant of Hürkuş-2 could take a lot of pressure from our aging F-16s and F5s by taking their counterterrorism role over.
It's not abandoned as far as I'm aware. The probability of that project being abandoned is also quite low in my personal opinion since the Air Force Command is nowadays interested in Hürkuş-2 and not Hürkuş-B.
 

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Air Force Command is nowadays interested in Hürkuş-2 and not Hürkuş-B.
Let's hope they know exactly what they want this time around then. That has been one of our greatest weaknesses when it comes to designing/building our own vehicles.
 

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Here we go!

According to the information obtained by SavunmaSanayiST.com, flight test activities of the National AESA fighter radar "MURAD" developed by ASELSAN will start very soon. Following the integration activities, an F-16 Block 30 ÖZGÜR fighter jet is planned to make its first flight with the MURAD AESA Radar in September 2023.
 
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Here we go!
Mete Yarar has said that a prototype was sent to Baykar to test on AKINCI. If this news is also true, then there're, at least, two functional prototypes and they will be tested simultaneously.
 
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