The SWOT analysis from the "Gas Turbine Engine Roadmap Final Report":
Strengths:
• Having the will and awareness to develop strategic technologies with domestic means,
• Existence of gas turbine engine part manufacturing infrastructure in our country,
• Gas turbine engine maintenance-maintenance capability in our country,
• Possession of low thrust class turbojet engine development and testing infrastructure,
• Having a 1400 shp turboshaft engine development and test infrastructure,
• Start of development activities for turbofan engine in low thrust class.
Weakness:
• Insufficient development, technology and test infrastructure and trained manpower for high thrust class turbofan engine,
• Insufficient test infrastructure for the development of high thrust class turbofan engines,
• Material (raw material, semi-finished product), bench, subsystem and component used in gas turbine engines, test infrastructure, the presence of foreign dependence in materials,
• Inability to meet the investment costs of domestic needs.
Opportunities:
• The increase in export restrictions increases the motivation to initiate domestic development projects,
• Availability of platforms in our country where the engines to be developed can be used,
• Platform and engine sales opportunities to friendly and allied countries,
• The possibility of producing derivatives of the engines to be developed and the possibility of use in different sectors,
• Having standardized and mature design, analysis and test methods in the future,
• Increasing the strategic importance of our country in the region and in the world with the gas turbine engines to be developed.
Threats:
• In the next thirty years, especially in civil aviation, innovative propulsion technologies (electricity, hydrogen, etc.)
the possibility of technology replacing
• Foreign export restrictions cause development activities in areas that are not cost-effective,
• R&D studies for raw material and technology development are costly and take a long time,
• High gas turbine engine development costs,
• Losing trained manpower to abroad.