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It sounds great on paper but have heard anything about this since the war started? I don't think it is on the table anymore.We should produce Antonov An-178 and An-188 in Turkiye with Aselsan avionics and Western engines. They are beautiful cargo planes with outstanding performance. We can sign a deal similar to the T-129 Atak project. Instead of buying various platforms from different parties, we can support our own defense industry. We need a sizeable cargo fleet. Tanker or AWACS versions can also be developed as time passes. We can order a big number of planes, like 60, and take delivery in 10 years for maximum production line efficiency.
Türkiye ve Ukrayna'nın ortak nakliye uçağı projesi An-188'in özellikleri
“Bu yazıdaki bilgiler Antonov tarafından hazırlanmış resmi broşürden alınmıştır.” Antonov AN-188, 4 propfan motorlu ve 8 pervaneli AN-70 nakliye uçağı temeli ile geliştirilmekte olan 4 turbofan motorlu kısa kalkış/iniş özellikli bir askeri nakliye uçağıdır. Antonov AN-188 iniş takımları yüksek...
We won't be stuck with those. They are unarmed cargo planes. We will buy CFM leap engines like everyone else does. TEI has full maintenance and part production capability for LEAP engines.As long as we don't have an indigenous engine for these platforms then we're stuck. If we can develop and build an engine in Turkiye (from scratch) that can power e.g. CN235 then that would be a good starting point and we can proceed from there.
That's why our own engine projects are so important, but I wish we could progress faster and have some semi-serial production soon.
