Turkey will sell ‘KAAN’ 5th Gen Fighter Over $100 Million!

 


Turkish 5th generation fighter jet "Kaan"

Oct 17, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

Any party that aspires to acquire Turkey’s fifth-generation fighter aircraft known as “KAAN” need to “think twice” before contemplating buying it, because the price of one unit of the fifth-generation fighter aircraft is expected to exceed US$100 million (RM450 million).

This was confirmed by the Chief Executive Officer of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Temel Kotil, who stated that the per-unit price of the aircraft is expected to be “slightly” less than US$100 million, as estimated previously.

 However, he did not explain the reason or rationale for the current price of a Turkish-made fifth-generation fighter aircraft exceeding US$100 million.

In an interview in 2021, Kotil estimated the per-unit price of the fifth-generation fighter aircraft to be US$100 million, and two years later, his estimate was almost accurate.

With an estimated price of over US$100 million per unit for the Turkish-made fighter aircraft, the “KAAN” price does not differ significantly from the price of fifth-generation fighter aircraft from the United States, especially the F-35 variants C (conventional takeoff and landing) or B (short takeoff and vertical landing).

 


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