TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

[Radko]

Turkey’s Kaan Fighter Development Gains Momentum

Source: Aviation Week
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The next batch of prototypes and preproduction model aircraft will look very similar to the configuration of P0, “from a bystander’s point of view,” Demiroglu says. The most noticeable external change will likely be a more optimized inlet for supersonic flight.
Instead, many of the changes will be “under the skin,” Demiroglu says, including weight optimization and the installation of mission systems. The second batch of prototypes, P4, P5 and P6, will be more advanced and capable than the first trio


Well well well, who could have guessed

 

[duveil]

I want to add more information to this, because i am bored and i find it interesting.

So let us start with what a vortex is.

Vortex - Wikipedia

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Do fighter aircraft benefit from vortices?

Flow separation
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To me it looks like that KAAN has chines.
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Chine (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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Do vortices have negative effects? (F-18 as an example)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S088997460200138X?via%3Dihub

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042100000038

So basically, the vertical stabilizers of KAAN are mounted on top of the engines to minimize tail buffeting.
Here are some examples of tail buffeting. (Take a closer look at the vertical stabilizers)

F-22 (You have to watch this on YouTube)

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My personal highlight:

But TAI, he says, is open to different levels of involvement—either with Kaan, the Gokbey helicopter or the Anka UAV. As a result, Demiroglu is confident that the Kaan will secure an international development partner; geopolitics could force the hand of those countries and prompt them to make “bold decisions.”

“I do not know if [a Kaan partnership] will happen this year or next, but I am sure we will have it,” he says. “Once we do, everybody will know . . . that it will not be only one.”

 

[Oublious]

2 prototype are in assembly line, one off the prototype will fly end off the year and the other will begin off 2026 fly. Total ther will be 4 PT and they will fly extensively. We plan to deliver first fighter i 2028, end to deliver the fighter we are going to work hard.