TR TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

[TR_123456]

How much do you want to party? On a level of 1 - 10...

Turks on this thread: YES

I drank for the first time in my life during the day,and i only drank RAKI which i normally only drink with meze and women.
And i was nice to people,all day.
Should tell you something.
But @Ripley will be KIA!!!

 

[Nilgiri]

It's truly a great accomplishment. But it was only a matter of time once the prototype first rolled out.

I don't see a luneberg lens, so I guess low RCS may have got verified up in the air for first time.

There will be a huge amount of debrief and analysis for lot of av-geeks to do in general for some time now.

 

[what]

Shit, I was at work the entire day and could really watch anything until now.
Wow, what a day! Congratulations to our engineers.

 

[Afif]

It's truly a great accomplishment. But it was only a matter of time once the prototype first rolled out.

I don't see a luneberg lens, so I guess low RCS may have got verified up in the air for first time.

Holy moly, I didn't notice. So, they were confident there were no spying chance nearby.

 

[Aqerdf]

Mr. Gorgün, KAAN's close-up details, new version of logo:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1760338567581044970

 

[moz68k]

A momentous occasion! What astounds me is the sheer volume of revisions done on GTU-0. Things I noticed, besides the obvious flight test boom:

- Unpainted surfaces for flaperons, ailerons, rudders and horizontal tails. Maybe parts were revised/replaced?
- Unpainted area just behind the canopy. This is usually where conformal antennae reside. Test Pilot Barbaros Demirbaş mentioned data-link. The videos are low resolution, so I can't tell.
- Unpainted area around the pitot tubes. No idea what changed here.
- Aileron actuator fairing grew in size. Possibly the actuators were beefed up.
- Landing gears. We knew these were going to change for the maiden flight.
- New or reinforced canopy. We know some testing was done at Martin Baker, so this isn't surprising.
- IRST and EOTS placeholders plugged.
- Tail boom is missing. Drogue chute in its place.

Anything I missed?

 

[Zapper]

Congrats to all the Turks. Can only admire and envy what y'all achieved with your defense ecosystem...a teachable moment for our defense industry and armed forces (IA & IAF specifically) and learn what can be achieved by encouraging indigenization instead of being suckers for kickbacks from foreign entities

 

[Heartbang]

I don't see a luneberg lens, so I guess low RCS may have got verified up in the air for first time.

An excellent point. We shouldn't risk that kind of leakage. Precautions must be taken.

new version of logo

They traced over an F-22 and used that. Weird.

 

[Oublious]

 

[TR_123456]

https://x.com/AirOpsSyndicate/status/1760237997084037225?s=20

 

[Huelague]

Temel KOTİL is currently in Germany.

You know why?

 

[DBdev]

Congrats to all the Turks. Can only admire and envy what y'all achieved with your defense ecosystem...a teachable moment for our defense industry and armed forces (IA & IAF specifically) and learn what can be achieved by encouraging indigenization instead of being suckers for kickbacks from foreign entities

Korea and Türkiye were several decades long partners of LM and GE. NATO and F-35 partnerships alone we have and Korea doesn't are huge advantages despite that we were behind Korea. We had no partnerships in rocket production so we are barely at the same level of children that make rockets in their garages in US that end up breaking the 100km line. India is in the elite tier of space technologies. Freaking Iran is decades ahead of us in rocket tech. So there is that.

 

[Oublious]

Temel Kotil is not in Turkey at the moment for the people who want to now it...

he would love the see the asset flying...

 

[MADDOG]

Mr. Gorgün, KAAN's close-up details, new version of logo:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1760338567581044970

I'll add to that

 

[Nilgiri]

Holy moly, I didn't notice. So, they were confident there were no spying chance nearby.

An excellent point. We shouldn't risk that kind of leakage. Precautions must be taken.

They traced over an F-22 and used that. Weird.

The landing gears were down all flight anyway....might have served same purpose and then we see them pop on for say next flight with landing gears up in flight. I just might not be eagle-eyed enough to spot anything else they did too.

But if Turkish radar operators are all synced up with the development team, then there's still stuff to be done even with this flight RCS parameters check, but its closed circle.

Random interloper wouldn't really get anything useful...past the sanitization of area that would have been done anyway. This equipment needed stands out easily to begin with.

 

[Huelague]

The landing gears were down all flight anyway

Typical procedure of all flying vehicles.

 

[LordAragon]

Any salty reaction from Greek media or the venerable "yunan speaker"?

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Any salty reaction from Greek media or the venerable "yunan speaker"?

Most of them on suicide watch

 

[YeşilVatan]

Most of them on suicide watch

• Foreign engines
• It's not 5th gen
• Stolen technology
• F-22 from wish dot com
• F-35 at home
• No mass production bcoz economy
• Specs are inflated
• It's propaganda

Westoids never disappoint. Nemçe kölesi, dayanır mı zülfikâre kellesi?

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Die Welt:
"With this milestone, Turkey has succeeded in becoming a fighter jet nation"

Kampfjet „Kaan“: Mit diesem Meilenstein gelingt der Türkei der Aufstieg zur Kampfjet-Nation - WELT

Es dauerte zwar ungewöhnlich kurz, doch der Kampfjet „Kaan“ hat seinen Erstflug erfolgreich absolviert. Für den türkischen Präsidenten Erdogan bedeutet das einen Triumph über die USA. Zunehmend strebt Ankara eine Autarkie bei der Herstellung moderner Kampfflugzeuge an.

www.welt.de

Meta-Defence.FR:
"The Turkish TAI Kaan fighter takes to the skies and catapults the Turkish aviation industry into the elite"

Le chasseur TAI Kaan turc prend l'air et propulse l'industrie aéronautique turque dans l'élite

11 mois après son premier roulage, le nouveau chasseur TAI Kaan turc, issu du programme TF-X, a effectué son premier vol ce 20 février, selon les autorités du

meta-defense.fr

Aero.de:
"Türkiye tests new fighter jet"

Türkei testet neuen Kampfjet

Das Nato-Land Türkei hat am Mittwoch eigenen Angaben zufolge ein erstes überwiegend lokal entwickeltes Kampfflugzeug erfolgreich in der Luft getestet.

www.aero.de

Flug Revue:
"Turkish stealth fighter Kaan flies"

Hoffnungsträger der Türkei: Neuer Fighter am Himmel: Türkischer Stealth-Jäger Kaan fliegt

Am 21. Februar ist der türkische Jet-Jäger mit Stealth-Merkmalen zu seinem erfolgreichen Erstflug gestartet.

www.flugrevue.de

Frankfurter Allgemeine:
"Türkiye Presents KAAN"

Türkei präsentiert Kampfflugzeug „Kaan“: Ukraine kündigt Kaufinteresse an

Das erste türkische Kampfflugzeug „Kaan“ ist Erdoğans ganzer Stolz. Am Mittwoch hat es seinen Jungfernflug absolviert. Die Ukraine hat schon Interesse an einem Kauf bekundet.

www.faz.net