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The Grand Turk |
Turkey unveils new 5th generation fighter jet |
2019-06-21 |
[ALMASDARNEWS] ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... ’s primary aircraft design bureau put forward at the air show Ankara’s answer to the loss of the F-35, a plane Turkey had once hoped to buy 100 of from the US. Washington recently put that deal on hold over its continued objection to Ankara’s purchasing of S-400 air defense systems from Russia. On the tarmac at Gay Paree-Le Bourget Airport, the dramatic unveiling showed the world a twin-engine, canted-vertical-tail fighter that looks a bit like an F-35, but with a narrower ​The resemblance should come as little surprise. "On the F-35, actually, my company is building the center fuselage," TAI President and CEO Temel Kotil said at the ceremony. TAI served as a secondary supplier to US-based contractor Northrop Grumman, which builds the majority of F-35 center fuselages, Defense News noted. "So this means, in terms of manufacturing, According to Defense News, the TF-X will have a top speed of Mach 2, a range of 600 miles, and will be capable of lifting 60,000 pounds upon takeoff. Its engines will provide the jet with 20,000 pounds of thrust each, making it roughly comparable to the Joint Strike Fighter, although a tad faster. although a tad faster...auguring into the ground |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 ^^Think of all the problems the Russians, Chinese and lately the Indians have had trying to get a high performance jet engine that they can produce locally...! |
Posted by: magpie 2019-06-21 19:55 |
#5 Who, pray tell, is going to sell them the high, very high performance jet engines the 5th-Gen fighter will need? Shangri-La? Erewhon? Atlantis? |
Posted by: magpie 2019-06-21 19:52 |
#4 in 2023 there will be a real machine, and first flight is in 2025, and in ... Dates pulled out of a fez cap. Shows what they know about the dev cycle of a fighter jet. Any remotely competent engineering company can make a fuselage from design and material specs. Turkey wants to go from this to this |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-06-21 09:55 |
#3 5th generation my butt. Maybe... MAYBE a 4+ generation. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2019-06-21 08:56 |
#2 Got a ways to go...after all: "the sins of the fathers will fall on the backs of their children, yea unto the seventh generation" |
Posted by: Mercutio 2019-06-21 08:37 |
#1 the reason small countries don't usually build these kind of premium jet fighters is that theu - cost a lot - tie up enormous amounts of capital and high quality engineering personnel - require a lot of testing over years before completing Turkey will probably not finish this project. |
Posted by: lord garth 2019-06-21 02:52 |