![]() ![]() High-technology projects such as the combat aircraft program as well as armed uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) have become key visuals in Erdogan’s campaign for re-election. The reveal of the aircraft, one of the centerpieces of Erdogan’s efforts to grow the country’s aerospace and defense industry, comes less than two weeks before general elections. The aircraft performed an engines-running slow taxi in front of a crowd of Turkish Aerospace workers and their families at the company’s facilities here before shutting down in front of a stage where Erdogan spoke. ![]() ANKARA, Turkey-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally named the country’s new TF-X indigenous fighter on May 1 as the aircraft was being publicly unveiled for the first time.Ĭhristening the aircraft Kaan-Turkish for king-Erdogan said it represented a “dream that the nation had been pursuing since the foundation of the Republic” 100 years earlier. ![]()
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