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As others have said before, Korea and Türkiye have different geostrategic and political environment. Most importantly Koreans don‘t have political conflicts with US and many European powers. And that won’t change in the foreseeable future: no embargoes or sanctions expected (except when we field nuclear weapons there will be a grand shitstorm ).
I respect Turkiye‘s enormous rise in the military arms development and industry against many odds. Korean strategists are pretty realistic in judging scientific, technological and industrial capabilities for the future and plan accordingly when to develop indigenous (sub-)systems or procure foreign parts.
1. Drones: They didn‘t ignore drone technology. Prototypes for reconnaissance and stealth drones have flown. Male UCAV was neglected. Overall Korean drone industry is pretty good.
2. SOM: Already in development, planned delpoyment in 2028. Most important part was to obtain deep multi-penetration tech for warhead - to crack NK strategic bunkers. Besides SK has extensive experience and deployed land-, sea-, submarine launched cruise missiles. Works on hypersonic missiles are also ongoing.
3. Jet engine: Actually only a handful of nations can build high performance turbofan engines as you surely know (US, UK, France, Russia, China). Even advanced aerospace countries like Germany and Japan are struggling. Horribly expensive and risky.
4. Air defense: After KM-SAM Block II (Russian tech refined with Korean electronics/software) for multi-tier multi-layered air defense. They‘re testing long range L-SAM anti-ballistic and anti-aircraft system with AESA radar (deployment 2026). Therefore I‘m interested in Turkish Hisar/Siper project
Similar to Turkiye the Koreans are working on 6,000 lbf thrust engine for loyal wingman-type stealth drones of KF-21. Hanwha Aerospace license-build GE engines (like TEI or was it Tusas?) and industrial gas turbines. Their advancements in this field are solid and government officials are totally secretive/sensitive about potential jet engine plans (not to stirr up shit with the US boys ).
No country is perfect when it comes to national defense planning: so far SK acted smart and performed well. The sole strategic missing link is going nuclear not only with SSN. Aircraft-carrier CVX plan IMO is an useless expensive toy of our Navy admirals. I‘m confident that our nation is on a safe way.
There‘s a future technological level assessment of a Korean think tank regarding SK and other hand-picked military powers (regrettably without assessment of Turkiye, would very interested in it):
Download the PDF, it‘s in English and an interesting read.
You have political conflicts with China ,North Korea and Japan.As others have said before, Korea and Türkiye have different geostrategic and political environment. Most importantly Koreans don‘t have political conflicts with US and many European powers. And that won’t change in the foreseeable future: no embargoes or sanctions expected (except when we field nuclear weapons there will be a grand shitstorm ).
I respect Turkiye‘s enormous rise in the military arms development and industry against many odds. Korean strategists are pretty realistic in judging scientific, technological and industrial capabilities for the future and plan accordingly when to develop indigenous (sub-)systems or procure foreign parts.
1. Drones: They didn‘t ignore drone technology. Prototypes for reconnaissance and stealth drones have flown. Male UCAV was neglected. Overall Korean drone industry is pretty good.
2. SOM: Already in development, planned delpoyment in 2028. Most important part was to obtain deep multi-penetration tech for warhead - to crack NK strategic bunkers. Besides SK has extensive experience and deployed land-, sea-, submarine launched cruise missiles. Works on hypersonic missiles are also ongoing.
3. Jet engine: Actually only a handful of nations can build high performance turbofan engines as you surely know (US, UK, France, Russia, China). Even advanced aerospace countries like Germany and Japan are struggling. Horribly expensive and risky.
4. Air defense: After KM-SAM Block II (Russian tech refined with Korean electronics/software) for multi-tier multi-layered air defense. They‘re testing long range L-SAM anti-ballistic and anti-aircraft system with AESA radar (deployment 2026). Therefore I‘m interested in Turkish Hisar/Siper project
Similar to Turkiye the Koreans are working on 6,000 lbf thrust engine for loyal wingman-type stealth drones of KF-21. Hanwha Aerospace license-build GE engines (like TEI or was it Tusas?) and industrial gas turbines. Their advancements in this field are solid and government officials are totally secretive/sensitive about potential jet engine plans (not to stirr up shit with the US boys ).
No country is perfect when it comes to national defense planning: so far SK acted smart and performed well. The sole strategic missing link is going nuclear not only with SSN. Aircraft-carrier CVX plan IMO is an useless expensive toy of our Navy admirals. I‘m confident that our nation is on a safe way.
There‘s a future technological level assessment of a Korean think tank regarding SK and other hand-picked military powers (regrettably without assessment of Turkiye, would very interested in it):
Download the PDF, it‘s in English and an interesting read.
SK doesn‘t use defence related material from China or Japan. My comment was related to usage of sanctionable US and European arm systems and parts.You have political conflicts with China ,North Korea and Japan.
And japanese willing to sanctions in semiconductor
Btw i always felt your country overrate japanese.in your movies ,japanese always superpower
for course by now the Japanese Space rocket still advanced but not other industry
Exactly, when it comes to certain unfriendly countries, these sells in the end actually works somewhat in Turkeys advantage.That reminds me, of something. To all those that oppose defence exports to certain countries. These exports create dependencies, look at us for example in the past with our defence equipment.
If you buy Turkish equipment, you buy into an ecosystem. If you plan to use your new toys in the future, you will need Turkiye once again. Meaning if you as a buyer of Turkish equipment ruin your relations with the country, you might no longer get your vehicles, drones etc serviced, get no spare parts or the bombs/missiles you need for your new toys.
@whatThat reminds me, of something. To all those that oppose defence exports to certain countries. These exports create dependencies, look at us for example in the past with our defence equipment.
If you buy Turkish equipment, you buy into an ecosystem. If you plan to use your new toys in the future, you will need Turkiye once again. Meaning if you as a buyer of Turkish equipment ruin your relations with the country, you might no longer get your vehicles, drones etc serviced, get no spare parts or the bombs/missiles you need for your new toys.
@Zafer i told you bruh!Two anka for Tunisia,9 anka with satcom and sar radar payloads for maleisa in 3 systems.Defence Turkiye magazine issue 119.
Two anka for Tunisia,9 anka with satcom and sar radar payloads for maleisa in 3 systems.Defence Turkiye magazine issue 119.
They are already on the map. We can not track numbers as they are not usually disclosed.@Zafer i told you bruh!