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

 

[AlperTunga]

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.

We can build chips for military industry and household appliances etc. But we need to buy the lithography machines from ASML. This company is sort of a monopol in this. We are working to build such machines as well, at least to manufacture larger chips. We should continue to work in this area to produce smaller chips. We cannot and dont need to compete with Nvidia but we should be self-sufficient. If we do a joint venture with Saudi Arabia ( they are interested to invest in such technology) we can surmount at least the financial difficulties.

 

[TurkWolf]

We can build chips for military industry and household appliances etc. But we need to buy the lithography machines from ASML. This company is sort of a monopol in this. We are working to build such machines as well, at least to manufacture larger chips. We should continue to work in this area to produce smaller chips. We cannot and dont need to compete with Nvidia but we should be self-sufficient. If we do a joint venture with Saudi Arabia ( they are interested to invest in such technology) we can surmount at least the financial difficulties.

Being self-sufficient is good, but we also must strive to be the best, even if it sounds unrealistic that must be the goal. And NVIDIA is a good benchmark for that. Obviously no-one is truly competing with them for a awhile before people have a cry.
Although i'd rather do a JV with Spain or Italy, least they have more talented individuals to make it work. rest of it I agree.

 

[Huelague]

Although i'd rather do a JV with Spain or Italy, least they have more talented individuals to make it work. rest of it I agree.

What about Finnland, Sweden or Poland?

 

[TurkWolf]

What about Finnland, Sweden or Poland?

Pretty much all nations except Saudis, UAE, Israel and I guess France?
Just don't see the point in doing any strategic JV with nations that see us as rivals. Heck, would they(Saudis) even be interested thats another questions.

But, Spain, Italy, Turkiye Med team sounds nice though.