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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    Yeah, it's strange that there are no projects planned to finish in the year 2045. Really strange. What do you think might be causing this strange gap in projects for the year 2045?
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    Turkish Air Defence Programs

    With IIR seeker, the missile will be guided close enough to the target using the ground control system (which has radar or some other networked target data) so it's not a problem.
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    Turkish Air Defence Programs

    Very strange to me too. If max altitude is 18km, range must be more than 25km, at least 35km, probably more like 50.
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    Aselsan listed among world's top APS producers

    The picture is LEDS btw, not Akkor.
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    Akinci & Aksungur and Turkish Unmanned Fighter Aircraft Program

    From an engineering point of view this is ridiculous. You don't start integrating a weapon into a platform for which a design doesn't even exist yet. The slide was clearly talking about integrating into Anka, not Anka 2.
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    It just happens that one of the categories in which Russian engines are inferior is very important for stealth (thermal signature). The fact that they're using these engines (or planning to) doesn't mean they'd be chosen by a foreign country as a stealth jet engine. Even China is not using them...
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    A 10 minute stroll through Wikipedia won't make anyone knowledgeable enough to have credible opinions about stealth fighter engines.
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    Russia has no engines suitable for a 5th gen fighter due to high smoke emission. Also much shorter service life than Western counterparts.
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    Eurojet leaves TFX engine bid

    RR already has authorisation to transfer tech for the TFX so I think we will see TAEC (Kale/RR) offer an engine using that tech. In order to meet the tight 2023 deadline it will probably be very similar to an existing RR engine. I think it's possible it will succeed. We're not paying Britain for...
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    It's being discussed here: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/eurojet-leaves-tfx-engine-bid.533185/ I think it's a good thing. Eurojet was risky due to too many European countries involved, which means too many political risks. I predict TAEC (Kale/Rolls Royce) will make an offer, and because RR is...
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    Eurojet leaves TFX engine bid

    I think I might've been remembering this: https://quwa.org/2017/05/09/turkish-defence-vendor-kale-group-partners-rolls-royce-develop-aircraft-engines-turkey/ My guess is RR will offer one of their existing or mothballed designs, or a modified version of one. They have the tech and experience to...
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    The F-22 can supercruise at mach 1.8. You can bet its top speed is much higher than mach 2.
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    Eurojet leaves TFX engine bid

    Rolls Royce independently signed some kind of MoU related to jet engine development a few months ago. Edit: link.
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    TF-X Turkish Fighter & Trainer Aircraft Projects

    Nobody said it was faster than an F-22.
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    Eurojet leaves TFX engine bid

    I assumed as much when the specs came out showing they wanted 2 x 20k lbs engines which the EJ-2x0 can't provide. Rolls Royce I think will provide the engines or design assistance to develop new engines.
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