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TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

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Those flaps primarily help control pitch; if the nose is to face upwards or downwards. Also gives aerodynamic stability to the plane.
Stealthy planes are inherently very unstable anyway. So they need very good fly-by-wire computer control programs to fly straight. To do that they will need very effective actuators that will respond with very high precision very quickly.

On Kaan these stabilisers are exceptionally large and hence heavy. Certain technologies can be applied (like carbon fibre composites to bring down weight.

In size they are not that much bigger than F22’s. But F22 uses 2D TVC to help with pitch control. In KAAN all the work is expected from these stabilators. Therefore much more excessive stress will be applied to them and to the actuators. But we are not privy to enough knowledge about what precautions Tusas has taken to overcome these difficulties. So unless Tusas states problems, we should not lose confidence in our engineers and Tusas.
As stated above KAAN is a work in progress. It will still be a work in progress when we have 20 or 40 of them in our inventory.
 

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Those flaps primarily help control pitch; if the nose is to face upwards or downwards. Also gives aerodynamic stability to the plane.
Stealthy planes are inherently very unstable anyway. So they need very good fly-by-wire computer control programs to fly straight. To do that they will need very effective actuators that will respond with very high precision very quickly.

On Kaan these stabilisers are exceptionally large and hence heavy. Certain technologies can be applied (like carbon fibre composites to bring down weight.

In size they are not that much bigger than F22’s. But F22 uses 2D TVC to help with pitch control. In KAAN all the work is expected from these stabilators. Therefore much more excessive stress will be applied to them and to the actuators. But we are not privy to enough knowledge about what precautions Tusas has taken to overcome these difficulties. So unless Tusas states problems, we should not lose confidence in our engineers and Tusas.
As stated above KAAN is a work in progress. It will still be a work in progress when we have 20 or 40 of them in our inventory.
Yeah a new design will be needed to fix those sadly.
 
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