TR TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

[Spook]

İ wonder which engine will use in MMU's first serial production? Because it seems TR Motor's engine will not catch up MMU's given serial production date.

First firing is planned 2027. Integration, first flight tests 2029. Serial production variant, likely 2035s.

 

[Turan]

First firing is planned 2027. Integration, first flight tests 2029. Serial production variant, likely 2035s.

So MMU first serial production won't happen in 2029?

 

[Spook]

So MMU firs serial production won't happen in 2029?

It will happen with F110 engines

 

[Hexciter]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1442944945728286721

 

[Huelague]

When TFX rolls out and when it performs first flight a lot of countries will want to buy it...

I talk about a partner.

 

[Combat-Master]

 

[Khagan1923]

According to Temel Kotil the production of the first prototype for TF-X has begun.

Hürjet, T-929, TF-X, Göksungur.

TAI is busy.

Hope to see pictures in a couple of months of it on the production line.

 

[Huelague]

According to Temel Kotil the production of the first prototype for TF-X has begun.

Hürjet, T-929, TF-X, Göksungur.

TAI is busy.

Hope to see pictures in a couple of months of it on the production line.

What about Göksungur?

 

[Khagan1923]

What about Göksungur?

Progressing, according to TAI engineers.

 

[Cabatli_TR]

According to Temel Kotil the production of the first prototype for TF-X has begun.

Hürjet, T-929, TF-X, Göksungur.

TAI is busy.

Hope to see pictures in a couple of months of it on the production line.

2023 TAI

• TfX roll-out
• Hürjet first flight
• T929 first flight
• T629 (?)
• Air launched Göksungur (?) 2022
• Fighter drone (?)

2023 Bayraktar

• MIUS B1 First flight

 

[Lool]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444277891932606468

Quite a few details on Hürjet.

- 4 different versions
- going to replace T38, F5 etc.
- initial 55, but expected over 100 Hürjets
- engine choice F404 due to single engine configuration, which EJ200 apparently didn’t have.

Good news!
Really looking forward for the light attack version of the hurjet
This is an important project as it will hopefully replace the F16s

 

[Huelague]

Progressing, according to TAI engineers.

Means no priority.

 

[yusuf]

 

[yusuf]

 

[Ravenman]

To me its like the TFX has a very similar F-22 design. Anybode else?

 

[yusuf]

 

[TheInsider]

Those are minimum airforce requirements which means the airforce won't accept the product if the product doesn't match those requirements. The Turkish defense industry has a habit of exceeding minimum requirements most of the time.

 

[Cabatli_TR]

The MMU/TF-X Block-0, Block-I
(2029) and Block-II (2032) aircraft
will be powered by General Electric’s
F110 Turbofan Family (probably F110-
GE-129E version due to twin engine
configuration), and starting from
Block-III (2035) the aircraft will gain
true 5th Generation capabilities with
indigenous 35.000lb class turbofan
engines featuring stealthy exhaust
nozzles for low-observability.

Source: @Defence Turkey

 

[Cabatli_TR]

Even if it will be an all-weather, multirole
fighter the MMU/TF-X’s primary role would be airsuperiority.
Like the F-22 Raptor air superiority
fighters the MMU/TF-X has both cheek and ventral (in tandem configuration)
internal weapons bays. The foreground ventral internal weapon bay can hold 2 METEOR or GÖKHAN medium/ long range (BVR) air-toair missiles and the rear ventral internal weapon bay can hold up to 4 airto-ground munitions (up
to 1.000lb in total) such as Miniature Guided Bomb (MB). Each cheek weapons bay, on the left and right of the fuselage,
can hold a launcher for one short-range (WVR) air-to-air missiles such as BOZDOĞAN and AIM-9X.

Source: @Defence Turkey magazine

 

[Cabatli_TR]

The MMU/TF-X will also have new generation features including Low
Ob s e r va b i l i t y, H i g h Maneuverability (to be better than F-16C), Internal Weapons Bays, External Weapons Carriage (for NATO and Indigenous weapons), Increased
Situational Awareness, Interoperability with AEW&C aircraft, UCAVs and AARs, Supercruise, Advanced Avionics for Sensor Fusion (5th Generation avionics suit), Intra Flight Data Link System (IFDL, to provide wide-band data-sharing [such as Radar, EOTS
and IRST data] capability during flight between TF-X aircraft as in the F-35 and F-22), Link-16, S e m i - A u t o n o m o u sOperation Capability (semi-autonomous aircraft will provide necessary feedback to quarantine mission success to the pilot via HMDS, the TF-X will feature a capability that will ensure that even if a pilot that has died, the aircraft would be able to return to base safely thanks to Artificial Intelligence capability) a n d I n d e p e n d e n t Operation Capability (no need for other A/C).

@DefenceTurkey