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[The SC]

Türkiye announces the success of the first flight of the “KAAN” fighter plane

Today, Wednesday, Turkey announced the success of the first flight of the fifth-generation fighter aircraft “Kaan”, one of the most important technological projects in the country, which was implemented by the Turkish Aerospace Industries Company.

All CAN flight tests have been completed, including ejection seat tests, full static tests, inertia and stability tests of control surfaces, landing gear drop tests, avionics system tests in the System Integration Laboratory, fuel tests, and engine start-up tests.

The Kan fighters are expected to begin operating in 2028. They are invisible warplanes, and one of Turkey's most important weapons. Its wingspan is 14 meters, its height is 6 meters, and its length is 21 meters. Its maximum speed reaches 2,205 km, and it operates at altitudes of more than 16 km.

One of its important features is that it can carry weapons inside the body and provide strategic air-to-air and air-to-surface attack.

 

[The SC]

Turkish 5th Generation Stealth Jet "KAAN" Hits Target Drones in Its First Flight​

 

[Peregrine]

Congrats to Turkiye. Huge milestone. Must have taken a lot of dedication and skillset to achieve this. Salute to turkish engineer brothers and sisters.

 

[Deino]

The best ones so far as it seems by Cem Dogut

 

[Yasser76]

Congrats!

 

[TopGun786]

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[Windjammer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1760237997084037225

 

[Deino]

From the F-16 …

 

[That_Guy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1760237997084037225

This is a huge boon for the Turkish aviation industry. The technologies that have been developed with this project will likely allow Turkey to develop a 6th gen fighter as well, and make it a legitimate competitor to Western, Russia, Chinese and Europeans fighters.

A first for a Muslim country.

 

[Harbyharb]

This is a very high fidelity demonstrator, perhaps even a prototype, much more mature than Japanese Shinshin, at or beyond the level of maturity compared to 2-3rd prototype for Korean KF-21.

It's clear that Turkey have high hopes for refining the KAAN to be a bonafide 5th gen, implementing VLO details like jagged engine housing rear and radome edge very early on in the prototype phase.

I expect that Turkey would next focus on acquiring (at least somewhat) domestic engines with stealthy jagged thrust nozzles, indigenous stealth coating, DAS system, and advanced avionics with integrated EW suite. Will monitor the progress of the project with great interest.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Fantastic news - I was not expecting this for today. I dont think may of us were, esp after the post by Deino on Kaan have done high speed tests so very recently. All that hard work, blood and tears for the engineers working on this project for so many years has finally paid of. Turkiye becomes the third country in the world to design and fly a stealth fighter after USA and China and the first country in Europe to do so !!!

Mubarak Turkiye!!!! Mubarak Turkiye!!!! Mubarak Turkiye!!!!

Fantastic achievement and a credit to the people as a whole. A Stealth fighter is one of the highest level of scientific and military achievements there is.

 

[Ali_Baba]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1760237997084037225

Excellent Video !!!

Looking at the video and comparing it with the Raptor take off - I do think the Horizonal Stabilisers had more movement/correction than what i was expecting. They may well review the data on that and fine tune it a bit more ?

 

[hyperman]

Congrats, Türkiye!

The haters can now eat a humble pie.

Before like a few years back, they were saying its vaporware and propaganda, now the narrative is shifting to engines. lol, but step by step, things keep chugging along.

 

[Ali_Baba]

higher resolution version of already posted video :

 

[hyperman]

Those Horizontal Stabilizers are HUGE. lol