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The Turkish Air Force (Turkish: Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. It traces its origins to June 1911 when it was founded as the Aviation Squadrons by the Ottoman Empire. It was composed of the Army Aviation Squadrons founded in 1911, and the Naval Aviation Squadrons founded in 1914 which used seaplanes. The Air Force as a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces was founded by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 23 April 1920

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The history of Ottoman military aviation dates back to between June 1909 and July 1911. In 1911 the former commander of the Action Army Mahmud Sevket Pasa achieved to send some Turkish military officers to the French Bleriot aviation school.: 74 The same year the establishment of a Turkish airforce was taken into consideration. During the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, the Ottomans had to admit their disadvantage of not possessing an air force.

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History

World War I

By the time of Belgium's entry into the First World War on 4 August 1914, the military aviation branch, now called the Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgische militaire luchtvaart), consisted of four squadrons, each consisting of four 80-horsepower Farman aircraft, although Escadrilles III and IV were still forming. A truck was assigned to each squadron, along with a fifth truck serving as a mobile workshop. Each squadron had a commander, five pilots, and six observers, with all officers seconded from parent units. As a result, most of the new aviators were from the Engineers and Artillery components of the Belgian armed forces. As the war began, a fifth squadron was created, staffed with civilian pilots called to the colors and equipped with Bleriots.

Sous Lieutenant Henri Crombez flew one of the first war patrols, in a Deperdussin racer on 4 August 1914 above Liège. Adjutant Behaeghe was the first to engage an enemy, a few days later. On 26 September, the Belgian air crew of Sous Lieutenant de Petrowski and Sergeant Benselin mortally wounded a German pilot with a rifle bullet and forced his Taube to land at Sint-Agatha-Berchem; if they had submitted a claim for this victory, its approval would have marked history's first air-to-air combat victory

Created in 1911

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Founded	June 1911 (as the Ottoman Aviation Squadrons 23 April 1920 (Turkish Air Force) 31 January 1944 (Turkish Air Force Command, corps scale)
Country	Turkey
Type	Air force
Role	Aerial warfare
Size	50,000 active personnel65,000 reserve personnel
Part of	Turkish Armed Forces
Headquarters	Ankara
Colours	Grey White Blue
March	Turkish Air Force March Play
Anniversaries	1 June
Website	www.hvkk.tsk.tr
Commander-in-Chief	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Minister of Defence	Yaşar Güler
Chief of the General Staff	General Metin Gürak
Air Force Commander	General Ziya Cemal Kadıoğlu
Chief of Air Staff	Lieutenant General Rafet Dalkıran
Insignia
Roundel
Fin flash
Flag of Turkish Air Force Command
Aviator badge

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(Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.

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As Of November 2022, The Martinair Fleet Consists Of The Following Aircraft:

**Martinair fleet**
Future Aircraft
Airbus A330 MRTT Since 2021, there is a plan to replace the existing KC-135R Stratotanker aerial refueling tanker aircraft with the Airbus A330 MRTT. Eurofighter Typhoon In November 2023, Turkey announced plans to acquire 40 Eurofighter Typhoons from the United Kingdom. The sale has been approved by all partners except Germany, due to disagreements between Ankara and Berlin on a number of political issues. In February 2024, media reports indicated that Turkey's interest in the procurement of Typhoons remains, despite progress being made on the purchase of 40 new F-16Vs. Project MIUS Bayraktar Kızılelma is a jet-powered UCAV developed for the Turkish Air Force and Turkish Navy. Bayraktar Kızılelma fighter drone and the flying wing type TAI Anka-3 strike drone are the two jet-powered, low-observable UCAVs developed as part of Project MIUS. Bayraktar Kızılelma completed its first flight on 14 December 2022,^[while TAI Anka-3 completed its first flight on 28 December 2023.^[ TAI Hürkuş Advanced basic trainer , which Hürkuş 2 newly developed model of the aircraft developed from the previous B variant is expected to enter the inventory after 2025. 55 aircraft was ordered. TAI Hürjet An advanced jet trainer named the TAI Hürjet is under development, and is planned to start replacing the T-38 Talon and CF5 by 2025.The prototype made its first flight on 25 April 2023. TAI TF Kaan The TAI TF Kaan completed its first flight on 21 February 2024. In 2011, Turkey's Undersecretariat for Defense Industries signed an agreement with TAI for a fifth generation fighter aircraft to ultimately replace the F-16 Fighting Falcon In June 2021, the Turkish Air Force made an official presentation of the TF-X program to the media, which later became known as the TAI TF Kaan. The aircraft is designed and developed as a low-observable, twin-engine, all-weather air superiority fighter by TAI and BAE Systems as its sub-contractor. The TAI TF Kaan is planned to complement and eventually replace the F-16s of the Turkish Air Force and to be exported to foreign nations. The runway tests of the prototype began on 16 March 2023. The aircraft's maiden flight was successfully completed on 21 February

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Turkish Air Force and NATO

Main article: Nuclear sharing

The Turkish Air Force contributes personnel and aircraft to the command centers and air bases of NATO and actively participates in the exercises of the alliance in Europe and North America.

The headquarters of NATO's Allied Air Component Command for Southern Europe (formerly designated as AIRSOUTH and originally headquartered in Naples, Italy) was established in İzmir, Turkey, on 11 August 2004. Allied Air Command İzmir was deactivated on 1 June 2013, when the Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany became the sole Allied Air Component Command of NATO.

Turkey is one of five NATO member states which are part of the nuclear sharing policy of the alliance, together with Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. A total of 90 B61 nuclear bombs are hosted at the Incirlik Air Base, 40 of which are allocated for use by the Turkish Air Force in case of a nuclear conflict, but their use requires the approval of NATO

15 light helicopters (budget: €250 million)
10 heavy transport helicopters (budget: €612 million)
4 SAR helicopters (budget: €181 million)
4 existing NH-90 NFH helicopters for all naval tasks

This would replace the current fleet of 18 helicopters (10 Agusta A109 and 8 NH90) with a fleet of 32 helicopters.

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Turkish Aerospace Inc. (TAI) TAI KAAN

General characteristics


TAI Kaan during runway tests at its facilities in Ankara on 17 March 2023
Role	Stealth multirole/air superiority fighter
National origin	Turkey
Manufacturer	Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)
First flight	21 February 2024
Introduction	2030's (planned)
Status	Under development
Primary user	Turkish Air Force

Specifications

Crew: One pilot & two pilot variant
Length: 21 m (68 ft 11 in)
Wingspan: 14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Height: 6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 60 m² (645 sq ft)
Max takeoff weight: 27,215 kg
Powerplant: 2 × General Electric F110-GE-129 Turbofan, 76.31 kN (17,155 lbf) thrust each dry, 131 kN with afterburner

Performance

Maximum speed: Mach 1.8
Service ceiling: 17,000 m (55,000 ft)
g limits: +9.0 g & -3.5 g

Desugn Requirements

Improved aerodynamics and propulsion
Supercruise
Sufficient and optimized combat radius
Advanced and internal multi-spectral sensors (EW and RF/IR)
Low observability
Sensor fusion and autonomy
Improved data-link capabilities for network-enabled warfare
High precision stand-off weapon)

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