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Maybe ab extendet Range Variant of SOM with Turbofan ?
It might even be a typo, I wouldn't put it past any of our companies, almost all of them have done it one time or the other. It is weird they mention SOM and all of its blocks but not SOM-J. And if it is new, well, that is even more exciting.
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M should be for Mine. I think after succesfull trials of Malaman, they are incorporating this into SOM and UCA.
Although, speculating this based on the information shared years ago that a mine-carrying SOM was envisaged. Could as well be a word play like SOM-Milli, to indicate indigeneous engine, or SOM-MMU to indicate new SOM-J fitting internal bays of MMU.
Yes, the J stood for JSF, now it should be SOM MMU, basically.
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What happened to SOM-C? Wasn't that supposed to have Anti-Ship capabilities?
SOM-M maybe a further development of SOM-J? (LongerRange, more stealthy design?)
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SAGE has turned into a blackhole of information recently for any on-going project, last it was told both SOM-C and J ongoes data-link enabled surface engagement trials.
Might be SOM - Miniature as well, but hope it is not referring to Miniature.
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What do C and J stand for?
J is Joint of F35 Joint Strike Fighter program, you can see stuff like JDAM, JSOW, JSM. SOM was made with Lockeed and meant to be used with F35, it turned out dimensions of plane and munition didn't match after design went on and they made a J version. It was never integrated so now we said we want to put in it KAAN. I think M is just a rename of J because why name it after JSF if it won't be used with it.
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So M refers MMU like J is for JSM.
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SOM-Müşterek?
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SOM-M Milli Muharip Uçak MMU
SOM-J Joint Strike Fighter JSF
SOM-J Joint Strike Fighter JSF
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Maybe the SOM-J Kaan doesn't fit in the gun mount. Could there be a SOM variant of the Kaan that fits in the gun mount? SOM-K (Kaan)
Is CENK tested ?
Tolun smart bombs were successfully tested, where 4 of them were released at the same time from Smart Pneumatic Quad Rack (SADAK-4T).
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This is simply magnificent. Awesome capability that only so few have. Tolun will keep growing with what's learned from GBU-39s we get from US.
This a great option for our planes to have, but, I also love the fact that we have 2 different drones that can also use this. In fact, Aksungur might be able to carry 8 instead of 4.
Edit: I was wrong about Aksungur. Its inner weapon station can apparently carry 500 kgs, which would be enough for 4 Tolun + Sadak, but TAI lists its payload capacity as "750 kgs +" I misremembered it as being 1500 kgs. So, Aksungur is out in that regard, unless TAI massively underreported its payload capacity.
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Can u explain that
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