TAI TF X Puns

TAI TF-X

Turkey had longed to complete their 5th Gen fighter and after striking out with British and other partners had decided to build it on their own with help from Pakistan (and presumably Malaysia).

The TF-X was a true 5th gen with state of the art engines, ASELSAN developed AESA radars using GaN, and elite airframes modeled and improved upon the F-35.

When DICN joined the TF-X program in 2024, they began pumping hundreds of millions towards ensuring the 5th generation fighter would be ready for development in 2029. While many would wonder why DICN would need such an aircraft in the low tech zone of Africa, DICN insured it's investors and the Nigerian government that such capabilities were necessary to keep up with the future of aviation warfare for the next 30-40 years.
Now that the TF-X has begun production in Turkey, DICN is free to begin variant research. While many might consider variant research to be redundant, Nigeria considers it crucial towards understanding of the aircraft, it's components, and towards determining future improvements.
A variant to be called the DICN N-1 "Falcon" is now underway at DICN headquarters in Abaji. This variant is expected to take one year for development which coincides with the amount of time that the specialized T-7N Red Hawk production area will need to be retooled to allow production of the new plane.

Following the sudden and unfortunate withdrawal of the United Kingdom from our 5th generation fighter program Turkey has been scrambling to look for a new partner. We hope that in France we can find the partner we are looking for. The French military is reasonably familiar with British equipment and as such hopping on to the project should not substantially set it back and it would not compromise the security of NATO tech. We reach out to France first because if we are unable to secure support from another NATO state we will be forced to work with either Russia or China, a move that would put into jeopardy the security of the NATO technology the United Kingdom supplied us. This is not a threat, merely a statement of fact, we have invested too much into this project to simply shelve it half finished.

Presidency of Defense Industries

Turkish Aerospace Industries TF-X Indigenous Stealth Fighter Program

[May/June 2019]

Turkish Aerospace Industries has been working on the conceptual design for the TF-X stealth fighter program. Turkey seeks to build its own indigenous air superiority fighter to reduce dependence on arms imports and become a major player in the aerospace industry.

TAI is working with Great Britain's Rolls-Royce on the jet's engine, forming a joint venture named TAEC Uçak Motor Sanayi AŞ in order to build the engine at home in Turkey. TAI and BAE Systems also collaborate on design of the aircraft. The partnership between the relevant firms is one of national initiative; Turkey and the United Kingdom have worked together on the ministerial level to make the project happen.

Turkish planners wish for Turkish Aerospace Industries to work with a diverse group of subcontractors, leveraging Turkey's position as a NATO state with commercial defense ties all around the world.

TAI is opening a tender, worth $250 million, for a subcontractor to provide technical and developmental assistance to R&D efforts -- specifically with designing the TF-X's airframe. The contract is aiming for a partnership to develop new technology, rather than seeking transfer of existing intellectual property.

Turkish Aerospace Industries

TAI TF-X Indigenous Stealth Fighter Program

[March/April 2020]

Turkish Aerospace Industries, the Presidency of Defense Industries, and the Defense Ministry have finalized plans for the last stage of development for the TF-X fighter program.

The project has gone on for years and progressed gradually from a mere proposal, to the conceptual phase, and finally for the last few years, real progress has been made on finalizing a design.

Expected to run up a cost of $50 billion, Turkish officials are calling for the TAI TF-X to fly for the first time in 2023, with entry into service in 2025. Foreign analysts have described the timeline as ambitious but work on the fighter continues.

India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has recently been brought on to help provide technical assistance to the program, adding its name to a long of major subcontractors such as Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, and Saab. Turkey has leveraged its position as a NATO member and Western ally to avoid reinventing the wheel and hopes to fly its first homegrown combat jet to reduce its dependence on arms imports.

TAI TF-X Specs / Subsystems

• Propulsion: 2x EJ200T (20,000 lbf)

• Variant designed for TF-X with thrust vectoring. To be produced in Turkey on license.

• Advanced Carbon Composite airframe, designed to reduce radar-cross section and provide stealth capabilities

• Length: 19 m

• Wingspan: 12 m

• Maximum Take-Off Weight: 27,215 kg

• Operational Radius: 1,111 km

• Max Speed: Mach 2

• Sensors/Avionics:

• ASELSAN Kayra - GaN-based AESA radar

• ASELSAN Isgör - IRST system featuring four sensors used for situational awareness and tracking aircraft/missiles

• Radar warning receiver (RWR), missile warning system (MWS), laser warning system (LWS), chaff and flare management, dispensing system and digital radio frequency memory (DRFM)-based jamming system

• Network-Centric Warfare Capable: features high-speed datalinks and the ability to integrate data from UAVs, other aircraft, and ground-based assets into a single battle picture

• Armament:

• Three internal weapons bays (one central, large bay with two smaller off to the sides)

• Four underwing hardpoints

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• HHF-10 Gökdoğan (Within Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile)

• HHF-20 Bozdoğan (Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile)

• AGM-88 AARGM (USA)

• SOM-J Cruise Missile

• Joint Strike Missile (Norway; already procured previously)

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OK- so let's ignore Multiverse of Madness for now because we've heard the theories that some of them (FoXmen) will show up like Tobey and Andrew.

But showing up is not the same as being introduced, it isn't like a whole race is just going to appear from one universe to the next. And I am 100% Feige is not going to want to use the old xmen... they're tired and have gone as far as they can with them. I am sure Feige wants fresh and new actors and storylines.

And all this time we (we as in Internet obsessives, and not me) thought maybe Wandavision or Eternals will clue us in how mutants will come about, but neither set anything up.

The thing is, the Xmen aren't just random super heroes thay show up suddenly or can be introduced whenever. They are primarily mutants, a core aspect of their identity. The key aspect of mutants is prejudice... how normal humans fear those different to them and some go out their way to campaign against them. Oppression, prejudice, distrust and hatred... that's pivotal to the story of mutants.

but here's the thing. They would have to be an established aspect in the mcu... which they're are not. Mutants don't physically exist (as of yet) so how tf are they going to get around all of this.

It seems way too complicated.

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The idea that they were always there but hidden due to a tragic event is the only way that I can see this working. Especially as this hiding would for story points be exposed. And this is perhaps lead to that fear and tension and prejudice between humans and mutants. In a world where superheroes