Well not exactly, you can expect some improvements that will be made upon data gathered by the GTU, rest of the prototypes will be for system integration and weapons tests
You are probably confusing it with RAM's
Also block-10 will include those RCS reducing methods
I wonder then if the change will be drastic. Maybe much more than yf-22 to f-22?
per airforce supercruise falls under 5th gen, so without the TF-35000 it wont be classified as a 5th gen by TurAF. This is like claiming J-20 is not 5th gen because it used Russian and then "4th gen" engines
True, some people were saying that the Typhoon was 5th generation due to maneuverability.
Ahem. ackchyually the powerplant is F110-GE-129E. It uses the same engine as F-15EX. That's why we sometimes humorously refer to Kaan as a stealth F-15.
These classifications don't matter since it all comes down to how you market the aircraft. It is the same reason why NG classifies B-21 as 6th gen or why Lockmart calls F-35 with adaptive cycle engines as 5.5th, or why various European manufacturers classify their respective aircraft as 4.5th gen or more (i.e., stealthier).
I really hate that canopy bar. I hope they'll replace it before the serial production. It does a disservice to all other RCS-reducing features of the aircraft.
I believe it is an interim solution and will change later on. It was a last minute hustle to fly this thing to begin with.
It didn't flew "ahead of it's schedule". The aircraft that flew was not meant to fly in the original plan, is not EMD representative and doesn't have any mission critical avionics. TAI claims that the progress of design phase is ahead of initial plan, but that's a separate story.
Good.
Don't think they'll be pushed back like the YF-22 to F-22 did because the side bays seem much bigger having seen internal pics of them open.
Single AMRAAM or full F-35 sized?
It does look a little straighter, which surprises me a bit. At least in terms of seat energetics, you want to have the smallest possible number of different seats in the inventory.
We still don't have a confirmation of weapon bays config though. It may have changed, the one below was presented during Anatolian Eagle '21.
Stop using his wrong calculations. TAI has given official dimensions of 21x14x6. No need for a rando to come up with his own wrong views.For example here's @paralay 's calculation:
Well actually not, official numbers are rounded up. Paralay is actually*nearly* correct with 20.1m length, real length of Kaan atm is around 20.2m
Well his position on the Ukr War doesn't matter to me but has anything else happened beside that? I'm also not presenting his calculations as facts, I'm just using it to show that the aircraft enlarged. We have no concrete specs yet.
You really believe the length is exactly 21 meters, the span is exactly 14 meters, and height is exactly 6 meters?
Could be, but it is closer to 21 than it is to 20 and closer to 14 than 13.
And if we take the dimensions in ft, it is even larger than 21x14x6...
20.2, take it or leave it
For someone who can't adhere to the basic rules of when to round up or down...
It was me who said "they are rounded up"
