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A very good article!

Great article Plow. Thanks for sharing your experience. This is the thoughts of most if not all of us with extensive combat experience in the aircraft. No she’s not perfect, but no platform is. What she has been is a capability game changer.

Advantages of Integrated Boarding Ladders in India’s AMCA Program India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) program aims to develop a next-generation fighter jet with integrated boarding ladders, inspired by the French Rafale M and American F-35. These ladders, though seemingly minor, offer significant benefits. They maintain the aircraft's stealth profile by eliminating protrusions, streamline operations, enhance aircrew safety, and contribute to stealth capabilities. While advantageous, integrating ladders may add weight and complexity, with potential repair challenges. Nonetheless, the overall benefits in efficiency, safety, and stealth make integrated boarding ladders a valuable feature for the AMCA. For Aerospace & Defence Updates Follow: https://lnkd.in/d7YN9S5a

Turkey’s National Combat Aircraft KAAN, its first national combat aircraft, completed its first flight, part of the efforts to upgrade its air force. NATO member Turkey launched its TF-X project to produce a national combat aircraft in 2016. Turkish aerospace firm TUSAS signed a deal with Britain’s BAE Systems worth $125 million in 2017 to develop the next-generation fighter jet. TUSAS shared a video showing a KAAN fighter jet taking off and then returning to an air base in the north Turkey. “With KAAN, our country will not only have a fifth generation fighter jet, but also technologies that few countries in the world have,” Haluk Gorgun, head of Turkey’s Defense Industries Directorate (SSB), said in a post on social media platform X. The new fighter jet will initially be powered by two General Electric F-110 engines, which are also used on fourth-generation Lockheed Martin F-16 jets. Turkey aims to use domestically produced engines on KAAN in serial production, Gorgun has said, with that expected to start in 2028. Turkey recently secured a deal to procure 40 F-16 fighter jets and 79 modernization kits for its existing F-16s from the United States, after a long-delayed process. The US imposed sanctions on NATO member Turkey’s defense industry in December 2020 over its acquisition of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system and expelled Turkey from the F-35 stealth fighter jet program, where it was a manufacturer and buyer. Turkey is also interested in buying 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, built by a consortium of Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain, represented by Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo. https://lnkd.in/d6Knv_zm #KAAN #aviation #fighterjet #turkey #stealth 

It's Warbirds Thursday! There are only a few radial-engine military trainer aircraft flown by generations of pilots such as the T-28 Trojan. The T-28 was manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War. It has continued in civilian use as an aerobatics and warbird performer. The T-28 was desingned to replace the T-6 Texan. Its first flight as a XT-28 was on 24 September 1949. The T-28A arrived at the Air Proving Ground, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, in mid-June 1950, for suitability tests as an advanced trainer by the 3200th Fighter Test Squadron, with consideration given to its transition, instrument, and gunnery capabilities. A total of 1,948 T-28s were built. Following the T-28's withdrawal from U.S. military service, a number were remanufactured by Hamilton Aircraft into two versions called the Nomair. The first refurbished machines, designated T-28R-1 were similar to the standard T-28s they were adapted from, and were supplied to the Brazilian Navy. Later, a more ambitious conversion was undertaken as the T-28R-2, which transformed the two-seat tandem aircraft into a five-seat cabin monoplane for general aviation use. Other civil conversions of ex-military T-28As were undertaken by PacAero as the Nomad Mark I and Nomad Mark II. Many retired T-28s were subsequently sold to private civil operators, and due to their reasonable operating costs are often found flying or displayed as warbirds today. The below pictures shows a T-28B Trojan with military code BA 8171 in a blue USN display paint. #Photographer #AviationPhotographer #Photography #T28 #Trojan #NorthAmericanAviation #USN #LaFerteAlais #LestempsdesHelices Please let me know what kind of pictures and/or stories of vintage aircraft and/or warbirds you would like to see posted going forward. Thanks!

Turkey’s National Combat Aircraft KAAN, its first national combat aircraft, completed its first flight, part of the efforts to upgrade its air force. NATO member Turkey launched its TF-X project to produce a national combat aircraft in 2016. Turkish aerospace firm TUSAS signed a deal with Britain’s BAE Systems worth $125 million in 2017 to develop the next-generation fighter jet. TUSAS shared a video showing a KAAN fighter jet taking off and then returning to an air base in the north Turkey. “With KAAN, our country will not only have a fifth generation fighter jet, but also technologies that few countries in the world have,” Haluk Gorgun, head of Turkey’s Defense Industries Directorate (SSB), said in a post on social media platform X. The new fighter jet will initially be powered by two General Electric F-110 engines, which are also used on fourth-generation Lockheed Martin F-16 jets. Turkey aims to use domestically produced engines on KAAN in serial production, Gorgun has said, with that expected to start in 2028. Turkey recently secured a deal to procure 40 F-16 fighter jets and 79 modernization kits for its existing F-16s from the United States, after a long-delayed process. The US imposed sanctions on NATO member Turkey’s defense industry in December 2020 over its acquisition of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system and expelled Turkey from the F-35 stealth fighter jet program, where it was a manufacturer and buyer. Turkey is also interested in buying 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, built by a consortium of Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain, represented by Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo.