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Turkish KAAN: Second prototype nears completion, flight tests next
bulgarianmilitary.com
bulgarianmilitary.com
Turkish Armed Forces plans to order 250 Kaan. In addition, thanks to the multiple bomb release to be developed, 8 different targets will be able to be hit in a single sortie.
TAI's Azerbaijan subsidiary was opened. The company will focus on modernization projects and collaborations in the Kaan project.
250 Kaan? Where did he get that number?
"The Multiple Bomb Release System, which provides the opportunity to engage 8 different targets in one sortie, is planned to be integrated into approximately 250 aircraft planned to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force."
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That should include F16 Özgür
I don't know, we'll see.
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Sheesh. With 250 Kaan, TuAF would put every airforce to shame (apart from USAF).
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We should make it a thousand so we can put them to shame too.
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No Özgür will have Aselsan Sadak. Altınay designs pylons compatible with the internal weapons bay.
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500 for TuAF + 500 for Turkic states
250 Kaan jets will cost Turkey $25 billion, assuming the estimated price of $100 million a jet doesn't change.
Considering the price tag of a single KAAN fighter, I wonder if we will ever see any future derivative of KAAN, sort of like how the FB-22 Strike Raptor was meant to be a derivative of F-22 or how Rafale B is a derivative of A.
Considering the price tag of a single KAAN fighter, I wonder if we will ever see any future derivative of KAAN, sort of like how the FB-22 Strike Raptor was meant to be a derivative of F-22 or how Rafale B is a derivative of A.
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I mean, PLAAF already inducted 200+ J20A and in the process of inducting hundreds more + there could be J31, so....
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93% of the money that will go into the making of 250 Kaan fighters will stay in the Turkish economy so not a big deal how much it costs. At 100 million a pop it can even be considered cheap. And we get to pay for it over a decades time.
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Anything we can read up on that? Altınay literally shows images of Sadak with Aselsan wording removed on its website. It looks more possible that Altınay will produce the Sadak series and not Aselsan.
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More like 1000 for TuAF and 1000 for Turkic states.
Did you find 600 billion dollars on the ground for next 30 years
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Imma refer you to @Zafer s post that I link below
TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2024/04/20/turkish-kaan-second-prototype-nears-completion-flight-tests-next/
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Good luck maintaining thousands of Kaan’s. Anyway, I think the initial order of 250 Kaan’s will get lowered in the coming years. But let’s wait and see.
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well yes I mean in comparison to current inventories
We need to double down on domestic engine efforts. Once it's ready nothing can stop us from making 1000 Kaans. The world will never be the same after that.
But I wonder at what point would we stop and focus on 6th gen... and if all the speculation of Kaan being a platform which will bridge generations is true. Kaan is certainly better equipped to make the leap than other 5th gen fighters. With the dynamism of the Turkish defence industry, we could see it gradually transform in the years after its introduction. If this is ends up being the case, we could see a ludicrous amount of Kaans. For now I'm happy with 250
Realistically it's more than enough for our regional ambitions.
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Similar to what is happening in mobile phone networks technology a strategy involving Long Term Evolution can be adopted where you upgrade the platform in a continuous manner. In this case making high numbers of a single incarnation of a plane is not suitable and you want to have a mix of upgraded planes along the way. So after we have several dozen planes in our arsenal we can look to involve foreign buyers to keep production going.well yes I mean in comparison to current inventories
We need to double down on domestic engine efforts. Once it's ready nothing can stop us from making 1000 Kaans. The world will never be the same after that.
But I wonder at what point would we stop and focus on 6th gen... and if all the speculation of Kaan being a platform which will bridge generations is true. Kaan is certainly better equipped to make the leap than other 5th gen fighters. With the dynamism of the Turkish defence industry, we could see it gradually transform in the years after its introduction. If this is ends up being the case, we could see a ludicrous amount of Kaans. For now I'm happy with 250
