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JSF-F35 Center Fuselage Delivery Ceremony In TAI



Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman, delivered its first F-35 Lightning II center fuselage to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin at a ceremony held at TAI's facilities in Ankara, Turkey, on Dec. 11, 2013.

Many high level authorities among whom were the Turkish Deputy Minister of National Defense Hasan Kemal Yardımcı, US Ambassador to TurkeyFrancis J. Ricciardone, representatives from the Turkish Armed Forces, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman participated in the ceremony.

This is the first F-35 center fuselage manufactured by TAI as an international manufacturing partner to Northrop Grumman. The center fuselage will be installed into a U. S. Air Force aircraft at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Fort Worth, Texas.

"Delivery of the first F-35 center fuselage is a major step by TAI to demonstrate its commitment to adding value to the program," said Muharrem Dortkasli, president and chief executive officer, TAI.

























 
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TAI Delivers First Center Fuselage to Northrop Grumman Under JSF/F-35 Program

11 December 2013

Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman, delivered its first F-35 Lightning II center fuselage to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin at a ceremony held at TAI's facilities in Ankara, Turkey, on Dec. 11, 2013.

Many high level authorities among whom were the Turkish Deputy Minister of National Defense Hasan Kemal Yardımcı, US Ambassador to Turkey HE Francis J. Ricciardone, representatives from the Turkish Armed Forces, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman participated in the ceremony.

This is the first F-35 center fuselage manufactured by TAI as an international manufacturing partner to Northrop Grumman. The center fuselage will be installed into a U. S. Air Force aircraft at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Fort Worth, Texas.

"Delivery of the first F-35 center fuselage is a major step by TAI to demonstrate its commitment to adding value to the program," said Muharrem Dortkasli, president and chief executive officer, TAI. "TAI invested in brand new, state-of-the-art facilities, machinery, equipment and tooling to manufacture the most advanced and complex assembly of the F-35, Fifth-generation fighter aircraft. It is now time to begin delivering world-class TAI center fuselages to the final production line at an increasing rate every year.

TAI has a long, proven track record of building exceptional aerospace products. Delivery of this high quality, affordable center fuselage on time has been another major milestone. TAI will continue utilizing its capability and capacity throughout the life of the program until 2040s," Dortkasli added.

"Turkish Aerospace Industries has played an integral part in the development and production of the F-35 for more than a decade," said Steve O'Bryan, vice president of F-35 Program Integration and Business Development for Lockheed Martin. "The delivery of the first center fuselage today marks a key milestone for the program and TAI."

"This is a great achievement for the Northrop Grumman-TAI team, said Brian Chappel, vice president, F-35 program, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. "We worked hand-in-hand to manufacture the first center fuselage, following established processes implemented by Northrop Grumman on our own assembly line in California. Together, we are driving down costs and raising efficiencies to help the F-35 program meet its affordability goals."

Once the program reaches full rate production, TAI will support F-35 final assembly lines in the United States and Italy by shipping one center fuselage every 10 days. TAI's center fuselages will be integrated into the Turkish F-35 aircraft as well as other participating nations' aircraft.

In addition to building center fuselages as a Northrop Grumman subcontractor, TAI is the single source for center fuselage metallic assemblies for F-35A, selected composite components for all F-35 variants, and is one of two sources for composite air inlet ducts for F-35A, and air-to-ground alternate mission pylons for all F-35 variants.

Through participation in the F-35 program, TAI not only contributes to Turkey's economy, but it will also provide employment for hundreds of engineers and technicians for 20 years.


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Turkish Industry Takes Off in Support of F-35

Istanbul, Turkey // May 08, 2013

Murad Bayar, Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industries, and Steve O’Bryan, Lockheed Martin F-35 VP, Program Integration, stand together after an Industry Participation ceremony at IDEF 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey, May 8. Undersecretary Bayar expressed his support for the F-35 program and the Turkish Industry which could realize more than $12 billion of business over the life of the program.




Ten Turkish companies participated in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Industry Recognition Event during the IDEF tradeshow today. Turkish companies are major contributors to the current international production of the F-35 Lightning II and the advanced Turkish SOM weapon in development to be used on the F-35 and have resulted in approximately 1,000 jobs for Turkish industry. Murad Bayar, Undersecretary for Defense Industries (SSM), was recognized for the role SSM provides in the form of leadership, vision, and the commitment of Turkish industry as a best value contributor on the F-35 Program.

“Lockheed Martin values the partnership we have established with the Turkish government, military and industry during the past quarter century with the F-16 and the C-130,” said Steve O’Bryan, vice president, F-35 Program Integration and Business Development, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. “That relationship continues to flourish as every F-35 delivered has Turkish components.”


The 10 Turkish companies supporting the development production of F-35 include:

- Alp Aviation has been supporting the program since 2004 and currently manufactures F-35 production airframe structure and assemblies, production landing gear components and production F135 engine titanium integrated blade rotors for the engine.

- Aselsan is developing manufacturing approaches for advanced optical components, which are part of the F-35 Electro Optical Targeting System. They are also working with Northrop Grumman on the F-35 CNI Avionic Interface Controller and will initiate full scale production activities in the near term.

- Ayesas currently is the sole source supplier for two major F-35 components – missile remote interface unit and the panoramic cockpit display.

- Fokker Elmo manufactures 40 percent of the F-35 Electrical Wiring & Interconnection System (EWIS) and will also deliver and support TAI with all center section wiring systems. Fokker Elmo will also develop the EWIS for the engine, for which a major share is produced in Fokker Elmo Turkey in Izmir.

- Havelsan has been supporting the F-35 training systems since 2005. Additionally, Havelsan has been instrumental as the Turkish lead for developing the construct of the future Turkish F-35 Integrated Pilot and Maintenance Training Center (ITC) and associated training systems in Turkey.

- Kale Aerospace has been supporting the F-35 since 2005. In conjunction with Turkish Aerospace Industries, they manufacture and produce F-35 airframe structures and assemblies. Kale Aero also supports Heroux Devtek as the sole source supplier for all three variants landing gear lock assemblies. Additionally, Kale Aerospace has also established a joint venture in Izmir with Pratt & Whitney to manufacture production hardware for the engine.

- MiKES has been supporting the F-35 Program since 2004 and MiKES has delivered F-35 aircraft components and assemblies for British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) and Northrop Grumman.

- ROKETSAN and Tubitak-SAGE are the Turkish joint leadership team who strategically manage the development, integration, and production of the advanced precision-guided Stand-off Missle (SOM) which will be carried internally on the 5th Generation F-35 aircraft.

- Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has been strategically supporting the F-35 Program since 2008. Currently supplying production hardware that goes into every F-35 production aircraft. In conjuction of Northrup Grumman, TAI manufactures and assembles the center fuselages, produces composite skins and weapon bay doors, and manufactures fiber placement composite air inlet ducts. Additionally, TAI is strategically manufacturing almost 50 percent of F-35’ Alternate Mission Equipment (AME) including Air-to-Ground Pylons and adapters. In 2011, TAI and Pratt & Whitney signed a strategic agreement to pursue options for future F135 FACO and MRO capabilities for Turkey. TAI who has also been assigned to represent the organic depots of the Turkish Armed Forces within the Autonomic Logistic Global Sustainment (ALGS) system.

The F-35 Lightning II is a 5th generation fighter, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, fully fused sensor information, network-enabled operations and advanced sustainment. Three distinct variants of the F-35 will replace the A-10 and F-16 for the U.S. Air Force, the F/A-18 for the U.S. Navy, the F/A-18 and AV-B Harrier for the U.S. Marine Corps, and a variety of fighters for at least ten other countries.


Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 118,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. The Corporation’s net sales for 2012 were $47.2 billion.

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I really wanted to receive thoughts of people who name Turkish aerospace industry as assembly center of Western equipments. That's the latest generation fighter's most critical part which is manufactured by Turkish industry with perfect production skills thanks to additional investments.

Every single F-35 will fly with the subsystems manufactured by Turkish industry...

- Alp Aviation has been supporting the program since 2004 and currently manufactures F-35 production airframe structure and assemblies, production landing gear components and production F135 engine titanium integrated blade rotors for the engine.

Turkey's ALP AVIATION Workshare in F-35 JSF:

-P&W F135-Ti Integrally Bladed Titanium Rotor Process
-Improvement & Special Cutting Tool Development Project,
-Goodrich LG F-35 Landing Gear Components

Alp Aviation PW F-135 Engine TI IBR Project for F-35 JSF

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- Ayesas currently is the sole source supplier for two major F-35 components – missile remote interface unit and the panoramic cockpit display.


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- Kale Aerospace has been supporting the F-35 since 2005. In conjunction with Turkish Aerospace Industries, they manufacture and produce F-35 airframe structures and assemblies. Kale Aero also supports Heroux Devtek as the sole source supplier for all three variants landing gear lock assemblies. Additionally, Kale Aerospace has also established a joint venture in Izmir with Pratt & Whitney to manufacture production hardware for the engine.


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Do you really think its themost important part and not maybe the cockpit?
 
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- Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has been strategically supporting the F-35 Program since 2008. Currently supplying production hardware that goes into every F-35 production aircraft. In conjuction of Northrup Grumman, TAI manufactures and assembles the center fuselages, produces composite skins and weapon bay doors, and manufactures fiber placement composite air inlet ducts. Additionally, TAI is strategically manufacturing almost 50 percent of F-35’ Alternate Mission Equipment (AME) including Air-to-Ground Pylons and adapters. In 2011, TAI and Pratt & Whitney signed a strategic agreement to pursue options for future F135 FACO and MRO capabilities for Turkey. TAI who has also been assigned to represent the organic depots of the Turkish Armed Forces within the Autonomic Logistic Global Sustainment (ALGS) system.

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Do you really think its themost important part and not maybe the cockpit?


In terms of high tech manufacturing skills/perfection of methods used to produce a 5th generation stealth fighter and sensitivity of center fuselages which inner bays, weapon stations, air intakes and gun section is also located in there... Electronic hardwares are a different story that should be seperated from fuselage manufacturing capabilities...
 
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P&W F135-Ti Integrally Bladed Titanium Rotor Process

I'm very curious about this part. During my Turbo machines class. I have learned that compressor rotors of aa engine is the hardest part the produce and have a significant important role in the engine. As Turkey we don't produce any Titanium or it's alloys. I doubt that we have the metallurgy knowledge for producing rotor for a Turbofan engine.
 
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i guess cabatli meant, fuselage parts.. engines and avionics are different stories.
 
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Don't underestimate the parts we've been producing. Center Fuselage, Panoramic Cockpit view, landing gear are important parts when you think of they're a part of a 5th Generation Aircraft
 
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Don't underestimate the parts we've been producing. Center Fuselage, Panoramic Cockpit view, landing gear are important parts when you think of they're a part of a 5th Generation Aircraft

Yes, it's true.

Be capable of producing the central body. It's like being able to produce, with a little more work, all the rest of the full body.

No ! There are really two major problems : Electronic level of a 5th Generation Aircraft or call as ‘Integrated avionics and sensor fusion’. And mainly the engine.

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, electro-optical Distributed Aperture System (DAS).

Integrated avionics and sensor fusion that combine information from off- and on-board sensors to increase the pilot's situational awareness and improve target identification and weapon delivery, and to relay information quickly to other command and control (C2) nodes.

High speed data networking including IEEE 1394b and Fibre Channel. (Fibre Channel is also used on Boeing's Super Hornet.)


Sensors and avionics

The F-35's sensor and communications suite is said to possess situational awareness, command-and-control and network-centric warfare capabilities. The main sensor on board is the AN/APG-81 AESA-radar, designed by Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. It is augmented by the nose-mounted Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS); designed by Lockheed Martin, it provides the capabilities of the externally mounted Sniper XR pod while making a reduced radar presence. The AN/ASQ-239 (Barracuda) system is an improved version of the AN/ALR-94 EW suite on the F-22. The AN/ASQ-239 provides sensor fusion of RF and IR tracking functions, basic radar warning, multispectral countermeasures for self-defense against threat missiles, situational awareness and electronic surveillance; employing 10 radio frequency antennae embedded into the edges of the wing and tail.

Six additional passive infrared sensors are distributed over the aircraft as part of Northrop Grumman's AN/AAQ-37 distributed aperture system (DAS), which acts as a missile warning system, reports missile launch locations, detects and tracks approaching aircraft spherically around the F-35, and replaces traditional night vision goggles for night operations and navigation. All DAS functions are performed simultaneously, in every direction, at all times. The F-35's Electronic Warfare systems are designed by BAE Systems and include Northrop Grumman components. Some functions such as the Electro-Optical Targeting System and the Electronic Warfare system are not usually integrated on fighters.

The communications, navigation and identification (CNI) suite is designed by Northrop Grumman and includes the Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL), as one of a half dozen different physical links. The F-35 will be the first jet fighter with sensor fusion that combines radio frequency and IR tracking for continuous target detection and identification in all directions which is shared via MADL to other platforms without compromising low observability. The non-stealthy Link 16 is also included for communication with legacy systems. The F-35 has been designed with synergy between sensors as a specific requirement, the aircraft's "senses" being expected to provide a more cohesive picture of the reality around it and be available for use in any possible way and combination with one another; for example, the AN/APG-81 multi-mode radar also acts as a part of the electronic warfare system.



The F-35's electronic warfare systems are intended to detect hostile aircraft, then scan them with the electro-optical system to allow the pilot to engage or evade the opponent before the F-35 is detected. The CATbird avionics testbed for the F-35 program has proved capable of detecting and jamming radars, including those used on the F-22. The F-35 was previously considered a platform for the Next Generation Jammer; however attention has shifted to the use of unmanned aircraft as an alternate platform.


Engine:

Pratt & Whitney F119

General characteristics

- Type: Afterburning turbofan
- Length: 4,900 millimetres (191 in)
- Diameter: 880 millimetres (34.8 in) inlet, 1,180 millimetres (46.5 in) maximum external
- Dry weight: 1,700 kilograms (3,740 lb)


Components

- Compressor: Dual Spool Axial compressor with 3 fan and 10 compressor stages
- Bypass ratio: 0.36:1
- Combustors: annular
- Turbine: 2 low-pressure and 2 high-pressure stages


Performance

Maximum thrust:

- 79 kilonewtons (17,800 lbf) military thrust
- 129.7 kilonewtons (29,160 lbf) with afterburner
- Overall pressure ratio: 32:1

- Turbine inlet temperature: 1,350 °C (2,460 °F)

Specific fuel consumption:

- Military thrust: 77.5 kg/(kN·h) (0.76 lb/(lbf·h))
- Full afterburner: 197.8 kg/(kN·h) (1.94 lb/(lbf·h))
- Thrust-to-weight ratio: 7.8:1


By comparison…

See old link :

Turkey’s critical choice: An engine for the fighter or vice versa?


Saab JAS 39 Gripen

Engine :

Volvo Aero (RM12) [General Electric F404]

General characteristics


- Type: Afterburning turbofan
- Length: 154 in (3,912 mm)
- Diameter: 35 in (889 mm)
- Dry weight: 2,282 lb (1,036 kg)


Components

- Compressor: Axial compressor with 3 fan and 7 compressor stages
- Combustors: annular

- Turbine: 1 low-pressure and 1 high-pressure stage


Performance

Maximum thrust:


- 11,000 lbf (48.9 kN) military thrust
- 17,700 lbf (78.7 kN) with afterburner
- Overall pressure ratio: 26:1

- Bypass ratio: 0.34:1

Specific fuel consumption:

- Military thrust: 0.81 lb/(lbf·h) (82.6 kg/(kN·h))
- Full afterburner: 1.74 lb/(lbf·h) (177.5 kg/(kN·h))
- Thrust-to-weight ratio: 7.8:1 (76.0 N/kg)

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But with a hugely of work and a lot of courage. Everything is possible. ^^


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