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Internal and External Weapon Integrations for KAAN | TURDEF

TÜBİTAK SAGE has performed integration work of both internally and externally carried munitions for the KAAN fighter jet in 2025, according to the activity report.

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Internal and External Weapon Integrations for KAAN​

TÜBİTAK SAGE has performed integration work of both internally and externally carried munitions for the KAAN fighter jet in 2025, according to the activity report.
TÜBİTAK’s 2025 activity report included the ongoing integration work for external weapons of the KAAN fighter jet. KGK winged guided bombs, HGK GNSS guided bombs, and SOM cruise missiles are the first externally carried munitions to be integrated on the KAAN fighter. HGK is a GNSS/INS guidance kit available to all Mk-80 GPBs, while KGK, available from Mk-82 to Mk-84, provides extended range through the wing kit. Baseline SOM variants, unlike SOM-J, are too large to fit inside KAAN’s internal bays.
Considering the time it will take to ready the internal weapon bays, and the fact that external weapons testing is less complicated, it is expected that the first weapon tests for KAAN will be performed with the externally carried munitions.
SOM-J, GÖKDOĞAN, BOZDOĞAN, and GÖKHAN will be carried internally; the integration work was previously announced by the Minister of Industry and Technology, Mehmet Fatih Kacır.

 

[Gaucho]

KAAN Block-10 Fighters to be Introduced Between 2027-2029


"Turkish MoD stated that the initial production variant of the KAAN fighter jet, KAAN Block-10, will be introduced to the inventory between 2027 and 2029.

The 2025 activity report of the Turkish MoD includes that KAAN Block-10 fighter jets, as the low-rate initial production (LRIP) batch, will be taken into the Turkish Air Force inventory between 2027 and 2029."

 

[Zafer]

Kaan in TurAF inventory in 2027, this was not even promised. I want to see Kaan in the TurAF inventory with the TF35k engine in 2029, this is possible.

 

[inthrustwetrust]

Kaan in TurAF inventory in 2027, this was not even promised. I want to see Kaan in the TurAF inventory with the TF35k engine in 2029, this is possible.

No, it isn't possible, even in the wildest of imaginations.


It took 11 years for the F119 to go from ground test to production model. This engine was developed by the most experienced engine producer in the world, which had already developed eleven jet engines before this one. The same company developed the F135 based on the F119, and it still took them 9 years to go from ground test to a complete production model. There are hundreds of unique parts in a turbofan engine—tens of components, and each one is a whole world in itself. Such an engine is more complex and harder to develop than anything the Turkish arms industry has done so far.


They could deliver an operational engine with a wet thrust of 35,000 lbf by 2035. Will its dry thrust match the F119's 26,000 lbf? Probably not. It will also have a low TBO at first.

God, you are ‘optimistic’.

*Typo

 

[Huelague]

To be honest, @Zafer has a point. The whole world laughed at us, even our people, as we talked to develop a 5. Gen. Fighter Jet out of nowhere, same goes for Tf-2000. Now, look where we are. And how fast we go.