Türkiye’s Homegrown Fighter Jet KAAN Conducts Maiden Test Flight

KAAN, a fighter jet made in Türkiye, conducted its maiden test flight on Wednesday, the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) said. The first fifth generation fighter jet manufactured domestically aims to replace the Turkish army’s aging fleet.

The latest development makes Türkiye one of a few countries to own this technology.

The aircraft, for which the project began in 2016, was rolled out in March 2023.

 

[Rational Guy]

By the time our Mk2 takes first flight this thing will be in mass production. Forget about AMCA.

 

[Frank]

If you are saying that anyone studing in government institutions like IITs and NITs should compulsorily work in PSUs for some years

IIT student fees are paid by tax payers

 

[kumar]

The only way that turkey managed to develop a stealth jet so quickly is because most of the technology, parts and equipment have been imported from the USA which has also been helping them.

While being nato member, they took advantage of supply chain in some aspects, but thier national effort as a whole is commendable. If we do a deep analysis of turkey MIC, we can see that thier decision making is superb at every step of project development. If they face a problem, they take a workaround which is backed by thier entire system. All the stakeholders in the project work as one. Here armed forces are on thier high horses, GOI is busy bean counting, MOD, DRDO burecracy functions with it's inherent deficiency, private sector wants to do screwdrivergiri and make money and don't want to take risks. Entire system has problems.

 

[Sandeep]

NATO is a military alliance and not a technology alliance like AUKUS or Quad. Under what NATO program tech sharing was done

NATO has a set military standard on its weapons and technology that can be used, developed and shared among them ranging from NATO communications system, cybersecurity protection, operating system, jet production, jet engines etc. The AUKUS alliance is mainly to just give Australia nuclear attack submarines only because it’s ruled under the British constitution.

 

[Sandeep]

Nah they already learned many things in small percentage of ToT's that they develop their own systems similar or certified NATO standard military tech.... Unlike us who's obsession of full ToT's it's becoming cancerous 😹😹😹

They have learnt a lot but in little amounts which will never give them a complete technology ownership over the part or equipment. It’s no good you getting 10% of ToT when you don’t know the other 90% which without that it wouldn’t work or be unsafe.