Also with a large enough home market, US does not need exports for their crown jewels programmes to be viable. Unlike the British Tempest programme. KAAN was pursued with no dependence on a future partnership or export sales, I presume.
. IF they decide to sell it, i can not imagine the price.
I should have phrased it better. The UK would not pay to develop Tempest on its own, particularly if it only guaranteed production of around 100 for itself. With UK, Japan and Italy ordering, development cost should be shared over 250+ frames ordered by the partners. If the Arabian states were to buy 50-100 later, that would be very helpful to making the project more viable. As you suggest, each frame is likely to be extremely costly.I doubt if they are going to sell Temptest, Japan is not accepting KSA to enter ther project
Can Dr Kotil's schedule for the TF35K engine be dismissed as wishful thinking? A few months ago he claimed it would be installed in KAAN in 2028.
All we know is that 54 successful tests were committed with the TF-6000 and that work is continuing on the TF10 Turkiye today has an artical on Turkey's engine development if you want a quick run down.
Sure, 1 x TF35K could be installed in KAAN with 1 x F110.
The plan is to deliver the first engine to TAI in 2028/2029 to be integrated into the KAAN. Integration and flight tests will probably take at least 2-3 years so the first KAAN with the national engine can be delivered in 2032 if everything goes smoothly. First mechanical integration/fitting tests will be done, after that ground testing activity will continue with ground/taxi runs. Finally, it will fly and will be tested at different altitudes/thrust levels/mach numbers. Prototype KAAN will have 1xF110 and 1xTF-35K. Later another prototype will have 2xTF-35K after the engine passes enough tests.
Is that a new prototype?
Nope
Expect it to be tested alongside an F110 in a prototype Kaan instead. Noone's going to enlarge KE or create an unmanned Kaan just for engine tests.
Not just for testing purposes, isn't it already obvious. You want to use the Kaan engine on other platforms too. Instead of using it on a manned fighter it makes sense to use it on a larger unmanned fighter as the future of fighters is likely to be unmanned. Manned fighters would be twin engined and single engine ones would be unmanned. I think it is better to make a large unmanned fighter with a single Kaan engine instead of making a LCA Hürjet with a foreign engine. We need to see how Turkish unmanned fighters evolve and take the appropriate path.
Are there any plans to fly it again? If not, could it be used for fatigue testing?
heard the Mr Demiroglu saying they will make another test flight this year .
