Is Türkiye’s Kaan fighter a national plane?

The first test flight of the Kaan fighter plane (TAI TF Kaan) has been raised by Erdogan and other political officials of this country as an important issue and a sign of Turkey’s increasing power and self-sufficiency.

The flight of Turkey’s Kaan national fighter was widely reflected in the German media, and the German Welt newspaper considered this action as a turning point.

It is also mentioned in the news of Flugrevue aviation website that Kaan is the beacon of hope for Turkey and the new fighter plane in the sky.

Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper also announced in its news entitled “Turkey Showcases Kaan” that this warplane has made its first flight successfully.

But the Russian news agency Sputnik has pointed out that it is not known why the test flight of Kaan has been done now. Because this flight was supposed to take place in the middle of 2023.

An airship, an election show

The Justice and Development Party led by Erdogan, based on an old policy and habit, unveils a national project every time on the eve of elections and party contests. For this reason, this time on the eve of the municipal elections, a fighter has been unveiled, which, according to the claims of Turkish political officials, is a self-sufficient defense product of this country’s own production.

Meanwhile, a review of Kaan’s information and technical specifications shows that, contrary to Ankara’s claims, this fighter was not produced nationally and self-sufficiently.

In the past, the ruling party of Turkey has tried to create an epic and emotional atmosphere, to turn issues such as the production of unmanned aircraft, the production of national electric cars, the discovery of gas in the Black Sea, and other events into political and party fodder. slow.

But this time, extensive news coverage about the sending of Turkey’s first astronaut as well as the unveiling of the first national fighter plane has attracted the attention of the media in a situation where Turkey is facing a serious and deep economic crisis and ever-increasing inflation.

However, instead of saying anything about inflation, Erdogan points out that it is a hundred years ahead of Turkey and that the power of this country is increasing day by day.

The name of the plane is Turkish, but…

It is interesting to know that Qaan is Qaan. But since the Turkish alphabet was changed to Latin by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, not only the written form but also the pronunciation of several important letters of the Turkish language were changed, and the letter Qaf is one of them.

For this reason, words such as Qur’an, Anga, Khaqan and Qa’an are pronounced in this way: Koran, Anka, Hakan, Kaan. Although the Turkish authorities have chosen a local and Turkish name for their national fighter, the fact is that most of the technology of this fighter belongs to foreign countries and it cannot be called a national aircraft.

The information published in the Turkish media indicates that the engine of this fighter was supposed to be built with the cooperation of the British. Even the construction contract was signed during the Prime Ministership of Teresa May, and the famous Rolls-Royce company has announced its readiness to build and establish a workshop in Turkey. But in the next steps, they find out that the Qataris also have shares in the Turkish company, and they withdrew from the project under the pretext that British confidential technological information and knowledge might be leaked by Qatar.

After Erdogan’s government was disappointed with the British, it went to America. As expected, the famous Lockheed Martin company did not approve of the Turkish project. But General Electric (GE) agreed to cooperate with Turkey, and now the engine installed in Caan’s chest is actually an American engine, and if everything goes right, Turkey will produce its own national engine in 2028. /p>

It is said that an important part of Kaan’s sensitive parts, including the intelligent combat systems as well as its electronic engineering department, are equipped with the technology of other countries, but Turkish defense industry officials do not want to mention the names of their international partners.

From the national car to the national fighter

One of Turkey’s controversial projects in the past few years was the unveiling of Turkey’s national electric car, which is called Togo and is in S type. you. He or the SUV has been sent to the market.

Erdogan, in most of his foreign trips, takes one or two of the Tog chassis with his giant plane as a souvenir and presents it to the high authority of the host country to show off the technological power and progress of Turkish industries to others.

So far, he has presented several examples of this car to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan and other countries. The production of Tog electric car was one of the actions of Erdogan’s era, which spent millions of dollars on the advertising cost of this project to actually become an industrial icon.

But careful investigations have shown that the Tug car can be anything but a national car and a self-sufficient industrial product. Why? Because the main part of this car, i.e. its rechargeable battery, was produced by a famous Chinese company, the design of the car belongs to an Italian industrial group, and traces of English and German engineers have been observed in its other components.

But Erdogan’s government insists on presenting the Tog as a national and Turkish SUV to the world and showing that Turkish people no longer need to buy cars made in other countries. This is despite the fact that the total price of the said car is more than 1,200,000 liras and is even more expensive than similar foreign ones.

This is not the only Tog SUV that is not national and has been introduced as a national product. The same rule applies to the Turkish submarine, whose main components were built by the Spanish.

It should also be said about the unmanned aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle produced by Seljuq Beirgardar son-in-law Erdogan; The camera and some sensitive components of this drone are products of several Canadian, Japanese, English and Belgian companies.

These are points that show that the Turkish government prefers the use of emotional atmosphere, slogans and drawing social, party and media attention over anything else in order to reveal the extent of its scientific and industrial progress and development.

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Source: Tasnim