Once we have the domestic TFX engines we should consider making a variety of planes around them.
- Two engine fighter jet
- One engine fighter jet
- Four engine bomber
- Four engine tanker
- Two engine supersonic passenger plane
- Four engine supersonic passenger plane
- Four engine cargo plane
- One engine supersonic cruise missile (ground/surface)
- Aero-derivative marine engine
Dude, slow down. Making MMU should be a priority for now. All those you wrote had economic problems.
1. We will have MMU for that.
2. Why should the airforce have separate aircraft with single engines? What is specific for that, so do we need one?
3. Again, why? What makes you think that we need a big bomber? Even The USA doesn't use its bomber fleet apart from using them in some operations that are made just to be made.
4. Should we design an aircraft + a new derivate engine for the tanker? How many TuAF will buy? 10? Does it worth spending this money? Especially when we can simply turn any Boeing or Airbus plane belonging to bankrupt companies which are currently sitting in Istanbul Airport.
5-6. This was tried and failed. Named Concorde. It failed because of economic reasons, just as A380 failed. Let's say we made these; who will buy God damn supersonic passenger plane? Especially economics of Aviation is worse than when Concorde was up.
7. Same with 4. Why not simply go to Antonov and start a joint project of producing An-124 or even An-225 with better avionics and engines? Shouldn't it be cheaper and easier?
8. Seriously? How many cruise missiles did you see before using engines designed for fighter jets? Any missile with F110? These engines cost almost twice the most expensive cruise missiles.
9. This would make sense.
We must remember that we are Turkey with a 15-20B $ defense budget. Not the USA with almost 1T. Just because we have an engine does not mean we can start building an entire army around that engine.