Turkish Defense Industry is growing but it has a Problem. Engine development is harming big projects

Turkish Defense Industry is growing but it has a Problem. Engine development is harming big projects

1: 2nd Largest Military In NATO Countries.
2: Defense Exports, 4 Milgem Class Corvets and Maybe 30 Gunship heli to Pakistan, 6 UAV to Ukraine, 10 Attack Helicopters to Philippines. Upgraded PAF F-16 Fleet to MLU status. Aselsan Pod for JF-17.
Armoured Vehicles to tunesia, tukemenistan, Bahrain. Helicopters. T-155 SP, MBRL TR-122, Rifle MPT-76,
SOM cruise Missile, Altay Tank. Turkey Source Codes bhe de deta ha. Unlike America France
3: 100 top defense Manufacturers main se 4 Turkish Companies hen.
4: inability to produce a fully indigenous engine is harming domestic defense industry
5: Delays in Projects only due to Engines and some Projects are closing due to this issue
6: Altay: Multi Billion Dollar Tank Project, Electric Engine, but nothing, Qatar wanted Altay and deadline was 2020. But now even 2022 would not seem good.
7: Germany cannot sell due to political reasons. Germany Leopard tank. Basis of ABRAMS
8: TF-X fighter jet and for home made Helicopters.
9: Tusas Engine Industries, June 19, successfully tested its locally made TJ300 miniature turbojet
10: ATMACA used this engine. KTJ3200 engine. Kale group
11: anti-ship cruise missiles and land-attack cruise missiles.
12: Kale Group and British company Rolls-Royce went for TF-X engine. $124 Million deal put on hold due to Transfer of Technology issue.
13: If materialized, TF-X would fly In 2023 but now delayed till 2025.
14: TS-1400 engines for T625 Gökbey helicopter. Its flying with American engine CTS-800A engine
15: started with component manufacturing for the General Electric F110 engine powering the F-16
16: planning other jet engine parts related to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380 License
Turkey’s inability to produce a fully indigenous engine is harming some of the country’s otherwise successful domestic defense programs, according to industry and government officials.

“We had it 15 years ago, we had it 10 years ago and we are still having it,” said a former defense industry chief. “It’s our chronic engine problem.”

A government procurement official agreed, telling Defense News that “at best the problem causes major delays, and at worst it can be an existential threat [to programs].”

The Altay, a multibillion-dollar program for the production of Turkey’s first indigenous tank, has long been delayed due to difficulties surrounding the engine and transmission used to power the new-generation tank.

BMC, a Turkish-Qatari joint venture that in 2018 won the serial production contract for the Altay, said in October 2020 that the tank would be fielded within 24 months. The original target was to have the Altay in the field this year 2020. Today, procurement officials and industry sources say even 2022 is an optimistic deadline.

Western countries with power pack technology, particularly Germany, have been reluctant to share technology or sell to Turkey for political reasons.
“Lack of a feasible power pack [engine and transmission] is depriving the program of any sensible progress,” noted an industry source.

Turkey also needs an engine for the new-generation TF-X fighter jet as well as indigenous helicopter models in the making.At the center of these engine efforts is Tusas Engine Industries, a state-controlled engine maker.

TEI announced June 19 that it successfully tested its locally made TJ300 miniature turbojet engine, which the company produced for medium-range anti-ship missiles. The engine features a thrust rating of 1.3 kilonewtons.

Company officials say the TJ300 engine’s more advanced, future versions could power larger anti-ship cruise missiles and land-attack cruise missiles. Turkey hopes to power its anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles with locally developed engines.

“The effort is about ending dependency on imported designs,” a TEI official said. Turkey currently imports miniature air-breathing engines from Microturbo — a unit of French company Safran — to power its domestically developed cruise missiles.

Separately, Turkey’s Kale Group is developing a larger, albeit miniature turbojet engine called the KTJ-3200. It has a 3.2-kilonewton thrust rating, and will power the Atmaca and SOM missile systems. On a much bigger scale, Kale Group has ambitions to develop an engine to power the TF-X.