Kaan is not the largest 5th gen, that goes to Su-57 for width and J-20 for length.
Su-57 probably has more area than all other 5th gens
A week after the first flight of KAAN, the Russian main military publication Topwar finally today published an article about the 5th generation fighters in general, and only a couple of words about the Türkiye... Kagan.
Just for fun, I decided to provide a translation of this part here.
« Türkiye experimental fighter is one of the most exciting projects in the world in general. After the Turks bought the Russian S-400 air defense systems, they were logically denied the sale of the F-35, which put the Türkiye Air Force in an awkward position. Moreover, problems also arose with the modernization of existing F-16s.
The Turks decided to build an aircraft on their own, which in the future will replace the F-16, and will also meet all NATO standards (do not forget that Turkey is a member of the alliance), but the trouble is that the Turks had no experience of this kind.
It is clear that the whole world is helping here (Sweden, Italy, Pakistan), but there is one problem: Türkiye engineers have never had the experience of creating their own aircraft engines from scratch, and the Americans have shown complete mastery of their engines.
Negotiations with Pratt & Whitney and General Electric brought negative results, and it is difficult to say how the Türkiye aviation industry will overcome this situation. They don’t give you their own, going to your opponents will obviously cost you more.
However, no one is in a hurry here, and they say that the ESR of the Kagan turned out to be at the level of our Su-27, that is, it is worthless.
So there is nowhere for anyone to rush here except the Turks, who really want their “five”, but there are more problems with it than it seemed at first glance.”
It is so disrespectful to speak about the Türkiye Khan!
Who are they writing about? Damn it, this can be said about some kind of beglerbeyi, or even -bey.
But not about KAAN!
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