TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

[Zafer]

Some materials that go into the production of Kaan may be hard to source, like the rare earth minerals and such. So even if you figure out how to make things you are still resource constrained to increase numbers. Unless you go into making everything yourself which also takes lots of time or make them from alternate or available materials which makes the product a little less competitive you are a little tied up. TEI chose to use lower performance when making the TS1400 engine rather than going for higher performing but scarce materials, for example.

 

[AlperTunga]

Türkiye has 90m ton of Titanium reserves. In addition, in Beylikova they found 490m ton rare earth elements reserve including titanium and zirkonium. We need to invest in facilities to extract those.

One crucial comment: building Kaan alone wont give us the ultimate freedom we want. We need to build chips, we need to build lithography machines, need to have our own software, operating systems, … basically everything. Our enemy is powerful, our aspirations are lofty but we have to succeed. Just like we melted the iron mountains in Ergenekon to set us free….

 

[TurkWolf]

We need to build chips,

We already do/are.

Just no Turkish equivalent of NVIDIA, AMD etc. Which I don't know why we don't try compete with these companies.

 

[uçuyorum]

We already do/are.

Just no Turkish equivalent of NVIDIA, AMD etc. Which I don't know why we don't try compete with these companies.

Do you know nvidias annual r&d budget