{"id":3463,"date":"2018-05-02T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2018-05-02T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:29:54","slug":"russian-firm-reveals-interest-for-turkeys-tf-x-new-fighter-jet-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/02\/russian-firm-reveals-interest-for-turkeys-tf-x-new-fighter-jet-program\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIAN FIRM REVEALS INTEREST FOR TURKEY\u2019S TF-X NEW FIGHTER JET PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3464\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX-560x280.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX-260x130.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TFX-160x80.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:Defence News<\/p>\n<p>By Burak Ege Bekdil<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s program for the design, development and production of the country\u2019s first indigenous fighter jet gained pace late in April when two local prime contractors joined forces to outline a production scheme for critical parts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a surprise move, a top Russian aerospace concern expressed interest in developing an engine to power the TF-X, the Turkish fighter aircraft in the making.<\/p>\n<p>On April 26, two strategic local contractors of the TF-X program, military electronics specialist Aselsan \u2014 Turkey\u2019s largest defense firm \u2014 and Turkish Aerospace Industries, signed a memorandum of understanding to share work on the planned aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Under the memorandum, Aselsan and TAI, both state-controlled companies, will jointly work to develop critical systems for the TF-X, including a national radar, electro-optical systems, mission-control systems and integration of these systems into the future aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/techwatch\/2018\/05\/02\/turkeys-fighter-jet-program-races-ahead-as-russian-firm-reveals-interest\/?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Socialflow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:Defence News By Burak Ege Bekdil Turkey\u2019s program for the design, development and production of the country\u2019s first indigenous fighter jet gained pace late in April when two local prime contractors joined forces to outline a production scheme for critical parts. Meanwhile, in a surprise move, a top Russian aerospace concern expressed interest in developing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/02\/russian-firm-reveals-interest-for-turkeys-tf-x-new-fighter-jet-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIAN FIRM REVEALS INTEREST FOR TURKEY\u2019S TF-X NEW FIGHTER JET PROGRAM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1707],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-tf-x","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}