I call absolute BS on the airflow. No way in hell you're getting more than 50% more MFR than the F110-GE-129 with the same max diameter first try without some catastrophic catch. And 187 kN? C'mon now
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The proper response is indeed a chuckle and to proceed with your day.
Finally an official step towards navalising the T-625 Gökbey 
This is the R&D centre of the MoD, and unfortunately they have developed a habit of making a fool of themselves in front of large audiences (their most prominent work has been developing a thermobaric Mk-84!). As @sequ aptly put it, “the proper response is indeed a chuckle and to proceed with your day.”
What truly deserves serious attention, and actually has a strong likelihood of becoming reality (even with delays), is TEI’s TF35k engine...
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Speaking of which...
Hopefully this is not a “subsystems development contract,” as I fear but more of a “delivery contract”; otherwise the engine delivery schedule won’t hold and there will be serious delays in the 2028-32 testing period.
I mean, for an engine that is supposed to begin full assembly and testing in 2028, they have only just recently entered the CDR phase. The TEI CEO (who is a realistic and consistent figure in the industry) says the CDR will take about 1.5 years with preliminary tests running in parallel, but that timeline will still be difficult to meet.
Hopefully this is not a “subsystems development contract,” as I fear but more of a “delivery contract”; otherwise the engine delivery schedule won’t hold and there will be serious delays in the 2028-32 testing period.
I mean, for an engine that is supposed to begin full assembly and testing in 2028, they have only just recently entered the CDR phase. The TEI CEO (who is a realistic and consistent figure in the industry) says the CDR will take about 1.5 years with preliminary tests running in parallel, but that timeline will still be difficult to meet.
Is this a company-funded project or does the Turkish military have an interest in it? Perhaps the Israeli sabre-rattling about how Turkey is the next Iran finally got to the Turkish government.
It's officially designed by the R&D center of the MoD but one can expect that Roketsan and /or DeltaV is deeply involved if not outright leading the project. I'm suspecting the MoD R&D centre to be a front for certain grey area stuff.
Would still face the same issue as Iran of not having a nuclear warhead for it, so being a signatory and having ratified the NPT as well. It will probably create quite a few issues with the EU and, obviously, Israel and by the extension the US should they decide to go for nuclear warheads.
It will make the fallout over the S400 purchase look like a walk in the park in a sunny spring day..
You really don't need a nuclear weapon to establish a form of deterrence, even if the strikes carried out by this missiles are mostly symbolic.
Curious as to why they chose liquid fueled engines instead of an SRM.