The Turkish Kaan platform could fulfill both the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s needs for next-generation fighter power. Turkey’s growth as a weapons and arms manufacturer is starting to pay off for ...

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In addition to drones, Turkey is developing a fully homegrown fifth-generation fighter jet, the TAI TF Kaan, which completed its maiden flight last year. As Ankara continues to build its defense ...

New Delhi: Turkey has offered the KAAN fifth-generation fighter jet to Pakistan and is also striking arms deals with Bangladesh. However, the Modi government is now set to respond to Turkey on its ...

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Turkey has even designed a fighter bomber, the twin engine, 27 ton Kaan. The engines are American, but everything else, including the bombs and missiles carried, are made in Turkey. Kaan took its ...

Ankara: Turkey’s deadly fifth-generation fighter aircraft, “KAAN,” took its first flight in February last year, while work is still in progress for the Indian fifth-generation fighter jet ...

MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. Russian Helicopters holding and Turkey’s Kaan Air signed an agreement on supply of three Ka-32A11BC helicopters at the Eurasia Airshow in Antalya, Turkey, press service ...

Ukraine is also producing what Zelensky referred to as “super engines” for Turkish defence projects, such as the Kaan fifth-generation fighter jet, Turkey’s national combat aircraft.