This project is in its infancy and should take more than a decade to realise. Pre-conceptual design work has been completed for three draft models. Now Turkey is taking steps to select an engine.
Turkey has requested bids from global motor companies GE, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney to present bids to power Turkey’s future fighter jet. The defense authorities, who mull to complete the program by 2023, see the engines as the first step for the ambitious program
Turkey’s aerospace industry and procurement authorities have decided to first choose a foreign-made engine for the indigenous fighter jet that the country’s local industry will develop, and then finalize its design.
What engine might RR offer? I am not aware of them having an engine to offer.
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June 24, 2014 at 1:46 pm