Arey chup-chaap metal kaato na yaaron!
Turkish developed and future Pakistani 5th generation fighter TAI TF KAAN conducted its maiden flight on 21 February 2024.
Aap dil kei bahut achche insaan hain.
So what. It was just a shell. The subsystems still need to be developed by them. We have already developed many of the subsystems as they are the same for tejas mk2 and tedbf. Also, we have decades of experience developing indigenous fighters. This is turkey's first indigenous fighter.
The main thing is we have already developed all the individual components, and sub systems, Avionics, radar and other important things, we still have a few imported items like refuelling probes, ejection seat (license make them ) GE F414 (licence make them), all they have to do is to create a shell with composites and Titanium in the shape of AMCA and install all these avionics, components and subsystem and test them all for a million times especially the radar reflections, heat signatures and things like that.
Bhai, ye hr baat par press conference nahi karte, but media waale har hafte inse updates maangte hain jaake, kyonki mere or tumhare jaise logon ko updates chahiye.
We don't know for sure how successful the Turkish program turns out eventually. There is still an immense amount of work before it becomes operational. I must say however that the Turkish have managed their program far better than India. Whether Pakistan eventually acquires the KAAN remains to be seem, the engjnes, avionics and many sub-systems will have to be imported and might come with restrictions.
There's been a crash with the F35, F16, Rafale and others around the world. People don't stop buying them and we still don't know the exact cause of it. There was some talk that there was an engine issue but more will be revealed in time.
First flight will be by 2026 at the latest and testing will take longer
It says the metal cutting was started in 2022. Manufacturing titanium takes some time
Very doubtful as most of the technology and advanced equipment is supplied by the USA and NATO allies who will definitely veto Turkey from selling their jet.
Very doubtful as most of the technology and advanced equipment is supplied by the USA and NATO allies who will definitely veto Turkey from selling their jet to Pakistan. The only reason why Turkey have managed to quickly develop their jet is because of a lot of help from the USA and NATO. We are developing the AMCA entirely by ourselves.
This news was neither shared by HAL nor by ADA but by a private news agency.
