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A small reminder for those who are not familiar with the project: MMU ( Turkish F-X ) Project is in its 9th year. In other words, the aircraft will perform its first flight on the 13th or 14th year with a temporary engine set. The first aircraft to be delivered to TuAF will roll-out from hangar after the 15th years of the project.
There are people who have no knowledge and ideas about the avionics and structural equipment capabilities of the Turkish aviation ecosystem and the ongoing vertical expertise. And these people are pretending to be an expert, but just lowering the PDF forum level.
More than 100 subsystems/metallurgy/processing tech project are under development within the scope of the project. ( some part of it is due to JSF program ) The first stages were successfully completed in a significant part of these projects. If you ask, @cabatli_53 can give you detailed information about these issues. A large number of projects have reached a certain maturity in all avionics, including communication, tactical data networks, mission computer , Ew/Ed suits , illuminating-targeting-decision support systems etc. and the creation of the main structure for fusion of all these systems. In addition, all unique or indigenous cad-cam solutuions, design-verification-test standards have been moved to the highest level. In the field of critical design activities and systems engineering, BAE support has been received within scope of acceleration of the process. It is possible that the conceptual terms could be similar to those of the UK's Tempest project, becasuse of core-crew.
All these processes are legally and economically guaranteed by the decisions of the defense industry executive committee, the council of ministers and the Presidential decrees.
Do not forget that Turkey is a part of the JSF program since the beginning. F-35 will not be the best aircraft in any of the conventional aviation criteria. However, this aircraft has been developed with the concept of network-based combat and autonomous communication between machines from the design phase. All program partner countries are working to align future air forces with this concept. In this context, I would like to say that the MMU project will develop within this design philosophy. With F-35 or without F-35 , TuAF working this concept over 15 years.
The most important test in front of Turkish aviation : Having IP rights of the new generation engine for F-X or being able to achieve domestic production without any restriction for export. Other issues go ahead of the project schedule, contrary to expectations.
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