Larger nose for bigger AESA radar TRM, integrated AESA based EW sensors, S-Duck, fully composite body, diamond shape IRST, EOTS, RAM coating, serrated surfaces, new generation powerful engine development, supercruise...etc
When the MMU matures, it will be a true multi-role fighter jet that will make friends proud and enemies sleepless with fear.
Congratulation TUSAŞ engineers and technicians again !
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Looking at this illustration, we can say that at least 6-7 different types of jets are being prepared on 4 main platforms in the next 10 years, in fact, if we add the informations at the level of some statements that are not yet finalized or not officially confirmed, the total number may be 8-9 over these 4 main platforms. There are also some other highly classified projects in the conceptual design stage.
The Turkish aerospace industry, together with the United States and China, is currently the country with the largest number of air combat platforms developing projects in the world, and is doing so with a much more challenging source management. Many so-called experts from the US and Europe had claimed that this was technically impossible, that Turkiye's capacity was not up to the task and that they would not be able to fly these planes. Fortunately, one by one, each of them started to apologize to their viewers/readers. But still, the development and infrastructural preparations of the Turkish aviation and space industry over the years have been perceived by the aviation community as something that is not widely known and that can be passed off as orientalist memes for foreigners.
Ultimately, they noticed the butterfly emerging from its cocoon. But there is still a lot of superficial thinking going on. The real revolution in the Turkish aviation industry is not taking place on the basis of the main platform. There is big leaps in avionics, propulsion and weapon systems, new generation communication technologies and many other subsystems and machine-to-machine protocols. All flying main platforms will be subsystems of a larger system, and it is this system of systems that is being designed. In today's combat aviation, developing a stand-alone flying platform is not as important as one might think. The real challenge is to ensure that this platform can interoperate with the existing infrastructure without losing the features of the generation in which it was developed. Therefore, the most remarkable and special achievement for Turkish aviation comes from a holistic view of the 2030s air force design.
And all this reveals another fact: Technically, we are moving towards an independent air force. In doing so, what we are designing is not the combatant aviation of today, but the combatant aviation of tomorrow. Geopolitically, it will fundamentally change the everything at the crossroads of continents.
