Turkey May Buy Up to 116 F-35s: Defense Minister

ANKARA- Turkey’s Air Force may buy up to 116 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Lightning II aircraft, the NATO ally’s defense minister has said.

Turkey, a member of the U.S.-led nine-nation F-35 consortium, has already said that it means to buy around 100 JSFs. But Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, in response to questions by an opposition parliamentary deputy on the JSF program, said for the first time in a Jan. 17 statement that the maximum figure would be 116.

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5529799&c=EUR&s=AIR

Anka: MALE UAV; two versions; Anka A FLIR, Anka B FLIR + SAR; possible Anka C with turboprop engine

Turkish Aerospace Industries is reportedly working on two new ANKA UAV models based on the ANKA-A it rolled out last year at the Farnborough International Airshow.

(1) A weaponized version of the ANKA MALE UAV dubed the ANKA-B:

ANKA-B will have the following payload:

Roketsan Cirit 70mm Semi-Active Laser guided missiles and
UMTAS anti-tank missiles/ or Hellfire missiles
ASELFLIR-300T (next generation also used in the Agusta/TAI T-129 Attack helicopter and Turkish Heron’s)
Electro-Optical Day Camera (EO Day TV)
Day Camera (EO-Electro Optic)
Thermal Camera (IR-Infrared)
LRF-Laser Range Finder
LD-Laser Designator and Spotter
SAR-Synthetic Aperture Radar
MTI- Moving Target Indicator
ISAR-Inverse SAR

(2) A High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UCAV dubed the Anka-C with indegenous Turbofan engine.

Details are as follows:
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http://airdroids.blogspot.com/2010/11/tai-to-develop-anka-b-with-500kg.html

I thought Turkey had joined South Korea and Indonesia for a new jet? :confused:

To my brothers from Turkey: IF the F-35 deal falls through, what other options are there in your opinion?

There are news about Turkish companies are going to take part in the Korean KF-X project but Turkey especially want an %50-50 share at that project for its future fighter plans!

On the other hand now there has started an indigenous fighter project which will be the Turkey’s frontline fighter together with the F-35s and F-16s in the future.

It should be clear that there is not any problems with F-35 🙂 Yesterday at a news channel there was news about the Turkeys future fighter F-35 😀 Turkey has a big work share at that project with many companies as TAI, Aselsan, Aspilsan, Havelsan, Mikes, STM, TEI, Kale Kalıp, Alp Aviation, Aydın Yazılım, Gate, Kimetsan, Hesfibel, Barış, Boron Technologies, Coşkundeniz Holding, Hema, Kaletron, Koç Sistem, Taksan, Milsoft, Petlas, Selex and Vestel. So everything is ok without the delays of F-35:p

100 years of Turkish AF coming soon? 🙂

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Activities started about the 100th year of TurAF:) IDEF 2011 international defence industry fair’s main theme is also going to be the 100th year of the TurAF;)

Than if a country is planning to create an fifth gen. aircraft they should firstly start with the S-Duct air intake design and production R&D 🙂 Even if necessary an R&D work for such an simple part! There are lots of pictures and info about their production…

JDAMs or the planned Turkish equivalent? And what king of target designator pod, Litening?

Turkish targeting pod’s name is Aselpod, designed and developed by the Aselsan. Turkish airforce ordered total 20 aselpod and first delivery is planning in june 2011:)

http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Defence-Weekly-2008/Aselsan-schedules-integration-testing-of-Aselpod-prototype.html

http://www.aselsan.com.tr/default.asp

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And the eqivalent system of the JDAM in Turkey is HGK (Hassas Gudum Kiti – Precision Guidance Kit) for Mk-84 designed and developed by Turkish Defence Institute TUBITAK-SAGE

http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Air-Launched-Weapons/HGK-precision-guidance-kit-Turkey.html

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No medal64.
He says that the 01, 02, 03, 04 protoype will have to do approx 2000 hours of test flight.
Note that there will be another T-50-KNS for ground tests too.
There is currently only one, the ’01’ flying.

If you mean on the ‘Aerodynamic, flight control system and engines.
It seems like they have done a ‘job well done’ considering the aggresive flight demonstration shown to the Indians and PM Putin, while only at its 14 or so test flight.

But they still have a long road to go on Systems & Avionics tests and trials.

Before taking in service 2000 flying hours should be done for the new aircraft had been said by Mr. Putin.

Its sure the priority for the Mr. Fedorov should be the aerodynamic, flight control system and engines but the work almost done is a general speech and in my opinion it means the development work for most of the systems conducted. So there just left an integration and testing phase then the bird will be ready for service;) Thats my idea:cool: