Security budget not military budget as police and jandarma are included but still relatively high and not all spending is included
Not true at all. Procurement budget is of course part of the yearly budget. About 43% of the 2024 budget was used to buy equipment and services of all kinds. There is also the separate defence industry support fund, in 2024 this was 165 billion liras or about 4 billion dollars. Which is less than 10% of the security budget.
Yes, indeed it isn't. That's why nearly every procurement and development program(for the last 40 years actually) is overtime and underfunded. For a country like this with plans and threats like this, defence(not security budget) budget should be 45-60 billion. We don't have that kind of money. All of our savings for the last 2 years just went poof last month.
bro (if you meant by savings the reserves accumulated), you do realise that Turkey was in the negative for 2 whole years in terms of reserves during 2023 and 2024? Yet, the TAF was operating just fine and was even producing, procuring, and researching
US is in the red 3/1 to its budget for the last 20 years, that's not how finance works. Army is a government institution, it continues working just like any other continued to work. Central Bank being in the red doesn't mean we ran out of money. 89% of the budget comes from taxes, we work our asses off so the glorious leader can spend it away on bullshit like imprisoning his opponents.
And lest we overlook, this doesn't have to be like that, at all. It is just the result of another short sighted policy decision they made early on, by privatising everything that actually made the government money.
Let me offer you some insight. Acquiring such potential in terms of human capital, technological and institutional capacity takes a long time and a lot of investment, planning, and you have to cut from other things, a lot has to be sacrificed. The military and technological potential of Turkey was built in many decades and sometimes its difficult to see the results, people who started initiatives that take 20 years etc are usually no longer around to take credit for it. What happened in the past decades was culmination of 50 years of effort, but the problem was, all the potential was spent in a short amount of time, and prematurely, and now the current institutions in their weakened form are not able to replace or build upon the previous, instead seeds that have been sown now will show their most significang results down the line, but cracks are already being seen, with military, human, technological, diplomatic and economic capital being burnt like wildfire, it may make a an extravagant display to outsiders, but will leave only ashes behind. It will take many decades to pay the interest, let alone the debt, and recover institutional damage dealt, if at all possible.
In short, people in Türkiye are very interested in politics, so they separate from each other and always approach events from an ideological perspective. It is very difficult to find someone who is neutral and far from politics in Türkiye, and those who make neutral comments are always lynched.
Now you can't avoid an explanation of the advantages/disadvantages of each vertical stabilizer layout.
The placement of vertical stabilizer makes KAAN the true successor to F-14 Tomcat.
Indeed, there are complex aero happening there with vortex' generated at the LEX's, so they have to be matched with that stream. That's why they ended up on the engines
Those photos are from P0, not P1. No official photos of P1 so far.
MMU won't have its empennage altered to a significant degree. There will be changes across the fuselage, but moving the mounting points of the stabs would be a step too far. Even though P0 was pre-CDR, the design wasn't inordinately premature. We'll all be dissatisfied if we expect an excessive face-lift, an F-22 style rear end etc. for the second prototype.
I think P0 was rushed for the elections. I expect major design changes, and the significant changes to dimensions are an early proof of this. Another proof is they will reveal P1 at the end of 2025, not in the middle. Meaning more changes have been done rather than continuing on with P0.
You are so wrong on so many levels.
They are from P1 production, shared by Haluk Görgün. The last one is from P0, as to show that it is the mounting for the vertical stabiliser
