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Trisolaran said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1760240414035206331

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Congrats. Amazing achievement.

Different angle of take-off and landing

Nigerian MoD visits SSB. The first thing he gets is a Kaan model

In retrospect the F-35 ban is not such a bad thing after all. Without it I doubt that Turkey would have so much incentive to get a domestic fifth gen ready in such a short period of time. F-35 sale to Greece probably helped too.

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Trisolaran said:

From the F16 flying next to KAAN



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There's big space between the engine ! Wide bird ! That's usefull volume. Will be so interesting to see the weapons bay if they are deep.

Now we can hope whether the Block-10 prototype will also fly this year. I believe the first time they changed the date of the FF to October '24 was meant for the Block-10 prototype, as the GTU wasn't meant to fly at all.

Fingers crossed.

With KAAN's successful first flight, we have congratulatory messages flooding in...

... and then we also have this.

Congratulations to Turkey for becoming the 5th country after the US, Russia, China and South Korea to fly a fifth generation fighter aircraft. This is huge occasion not just for Turkey.

schrage musik said:

Congratulations to Turkey for becoming the 5th country after the US, Russia, China and South Korea to fly a fifth generation fighter aircraft. This is huge occasion not just for Turkey.

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South Korea's KF-21 is more like 4.8/4.9th-gen fighter rather than a 5th-gen fighter. So technically speaking, Turkey is the 4th nation to fly their own 5th-gen fighter.