First of all, it's from IDRW, a source generally deemed untrustworthy.
That said, delays are unavoidable in any project. You'll deal with the same as you progress. Don't forget that even in the case of a 25 kN Turbofan, you're where we were 8 years ago.
So as things stand, we have a 85 kN Turbofan in flight testing, it's non AB version under limited series production & a 25 kN one at advanced stage of ground testing. Meanwhile Turkey had it's first 25 kN Turbofan test fired in March 2024.
You can reject anything, makes no difference. It is under limited series production after completing high altitude flight testing with one already delivered as per report.
Two different projects, developed by two different agencies.
Not that Turk will understand.
The high altitude flight testing is already completed.
India's Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) – an agency under the state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – has completed high-altitude...
www.janes.com
Let me remind that you don't have any flying testbed on your own. And your 35K lbf class Turbofan is supposed to fly in 2028. Good luck.
Does Mehmet have issue reading English?
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60-70% of design team based in India. Not flexing about it, as we don't own the IP. Same is the case with your GE JV.
Your first Turbofan engine was test fired in 2024. If you think you can make a flight worthy 35,000 lbf class Turbofan in just 4 years, all I can say is good luck.
And still have a revenue of just 5 billion Turkish Lira or 160 million USD. Pretty sure that HAL's Engine division alone has higher revenue.
We have been manufacturing the AL-31FP including SCBs for more than a decade & a half by now. But I am sure that we have a lot of climbing to do as a GE JV does some machining in Turkey.
Manufacturing components wouldn't give you the know-how for designing a Turbofan. It it did, you would already had the TF6000 flying already.
PD170. Surely 100% Turkish.
"The mission systems will follow on the second prototype"
Which is exactly what I said: A structural test prototype improvised & made airworthy. What did the first flight achieve? A proof of concept?
