Defense News: Turkish TF-X fighter jet will receive F110 engine and technology from Russia
The Turkish Fighter X (TF-X) will receive an American F110 turbofan engine and Russian technologies, Defense News reports . The publication of the publication drew the attention of the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.
"We will hold talks with Russia on the subject of those components [of the TF-X fighter] that we intend to produce on our own," said Ismail Demir, head of the Turkish Defense Industry Department.
A source of the publication in the Turkish Aerospace Industries Corporation (TAI) stated that "Russia has the necessary technologies in aviation acoustics and aerothermodynamics, as well as the production infrastructure to create a fighter."
"Russia has the technology [implemented in its Su-57 fighter] to create a turbojet turbojet engine - approx. "Tapes.ru") of the fifth generation. Cooperation is planned in the line of on-board radio-electronic equipment, power plant, on-board radar complex, on-board lighting equipment, ejection seat and data transmission systems," the interlocutor noted.
In September 2020, the executive director of UEC-Klimov, Alexander Vatagin, said that Russia is producing the turbojet aircraft engine P-33 of MiG-29 and MiG-35 aircraft, which Turkey may need for the TF-X fighter it is creating.
