Turkish Jet-Engines: China & France

Now that the last piece of the puzzle is also unveiled by Türkiye, more than China and France will face competition. Nothing will stop Turkish exports now with better price and quality.

Until now, there was only the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China in the jet-engine business. Lately, in the face of Turkish jet-engines: China & France feel helpless.

In the 21st century, six more countries are venturing into the jet-engine business. Yet, Türkiye is one of the rapidly rising formidable challengers.

GE AEROSPACE, ROLLS ROYCE, PRATT & WHITNEY

The US’s GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney, alongside the UK’s Rolls Royce are the top three of the world’s largest manufacturers. They provide jet-engines to Boeing and Airbus. They dominate the industry in the turbofan engines.

Turkish Jet-Engines: China & France

Tusaş & Kale Arge

Tusaş Engine Industries (TEI) is one of the “dirty dozen” Turkish defense industry giants. Kale Arge is yet another which is equally formidable like TEI.

The former now has an indigenous turbofan, TF-6000 and afterburner version, TF-10000. Next comes the TF-35000: Two of them will be on KAAN.

Kale Arge came up with KTJ-3200. It is the first national turbojet engine developed by Türkiye. It is optimized for cruise missiles and unmanned platforms.

China

China used to sell cheap drones to everyone. It was third behind the US and Israel. Until Baykar from Türkiye came up with TB-2. Ever since, China cannot sell to the low end of the spectrum to no one.

France

France made the mistake by not selling what Türkiye wanted until Kale Arge developed the KTJ-3200. Now, France has a China problem. Kale Arge’s turbojet leaves no client states to French-made TR40 engines.

Turkish Jet-Engines: China & France

At this time, it is fair to say Türkiye is about to put China & France out of business mainly because of Kale Arge’s turbojet engines.

Tusaş

Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TUSAŞ) has aircrafts, helicopters, and drones. They all need either turbojet or turbofan engines.

TEI and Kale Arge now meet Tusaş’ demand, alongside Baykar’s. Altogether they have more than a dozen indigenously developed jet-engines. Most are in mass production.

Losers & Winners

• Turkish Tusaş and Baykar will be the biggest winners.

Tusaş has KAAN, Hürjet, Hürkuş, T129 Atak, Atak II, Gökbey, T-70, Anka, Aksungur, Anka III and Şimşek. Baykar has TB-2, TB-3, TB-4, Akinci, and Kızılelma to use these jet-engines, alongside Turkish attack boats.

• What used to be “Third World” countries will also be the winners.

With TEI and Kale Arge jet-engines, Third World countries will be able to supply their inventory with Turkish military platforms. The lack of Turkish jet-engines was the only impediment up until now for the Turkish exports.

• As for the losers, China and France are the front runners.

China has to bow down to a formidable challenge whereas France simply committed suicide, and knowingly. At this stage, neither country has any chance but to go out of business from the drone and the turbojet engine businesses, respectively.

Turkish Jet-Engines: China & France

So then it follows up.

• What is to hold Türkiye back not to make similar gains with turbofan engines against the industry giants over time?