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It is difficult to understand what TEI is up to by following them from their site, and the news reports they publish or the interviews they give. But as @huseyin242 rightfully mentions the engines look more like the real prototypes now. These are the two pictures they have of the tf6k and tf10k...

Italians are building 6 Constellation Class Frigates for the US Navy. Greeks wish to dovetail on to this programme with a possibility to build some of them in Greece. These are derived from FREMM Class and are 1.1 to 1.2 billion dollar, 151m long, 7300ton ships with 32 VLS tubes. By the...

https://www.defenceturk.net/donanmaya-yeni-guc-10-nolu-istif-sinifi-firkateyn-yolda The I-Class Frigate programme is proceeding with the second batch of the 4 ships, after the 9th and 10th ships’ keels have been laid and first steel cuttings have been performed at Sedef shipyards. The F515, as...

Get your facts right please. Most Syrians are, as of March 2023, in İstanbul, Gaziantep, and Urfa. Then Hatay. Majority of the Syrian refugees that are housed in Hatay are the relatives of the Shia community of Hatay...

This is a news piece by a UK newspaper, once very reputable. But probably due to sharp decline in sales has lost a lot of ground and unfortunately resorted to making fantastic claims about parts being peppered with holes. New York Times makes a better and more reliable account of the whole...

We are doing guesswork here. Including Dr Aksit many people give different values of power ratings for the TS1400. But to have achieved an OEI 30 second power rating of 1740HP means that our TS1400 is actually developing more power than the LHTEC engine . TEI, on their site gives an OEI 30sec...

TS1400 is a 1400HP class turboshaft engine. Hence its specified safe continuous power delivery will be below 1400HP. But it’s safe 5 minute take off maximum power level will be around or may be slightly more than 1400HP. These engines are subjected to extreme power demands during take off and in...

https://www.defenceturk.net/tb3-siha-yerli-motor-ile-irtifa-rekoru-kirdi TB3 has surpassed its own previous altitude records by achieving to fly at an altitude of 36310ft at its 55th test flight. TEI’s PD-170 engine is behind the success of this new drone. It already has been integrated with the...

To me this is a fairly short sighted view of responding to a valid question; ‘Why did the Turks follow and adopt a religion that was predominantly forced on to them by Arabs 1400 years ago? ‘ You do not have to be an atheist to respond to that. Many members here, will have their own take on the...

According to related literature, quarterhorse mk 1 is powered by GE-J85 engine. P&W version which will be supersonic, the quarterhorse mk2 , will use the F16 F100 engine.

https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2023/roketsan-lumtas-gm-antitank-missile-breaks-world-record-with-16km-distant-hit November 2023 Roketsan test fired a LUmtas-GM missile hitting a 16km target. This missile is stated to have a range of 20km if fired from an air platform. A 32km version...

https://www.donanimhaber.com/bayraktar-kizilelma-icin-yerli-motor-mujdesi--178638 This is the gist of the KE news, being discussed here. The date may be current and fresh; but the content appears to be outdated and somewhat open to argument and logically suspect. KE has not gone beyond...

https://m5dergi.com/one-cikan/abd-israile-18-milyar-dolarlik-f-15-satisini-onayladi/ According to M5dergi of Turkey, US has removed all stops regarding 18 billion dollar deal of 50 units of F15 sale to Israeli Airforce. That means 360 million dollars a piece. That is a lot especially when you...

Anka 3 is a flying wing. Theoretically with powerful enough engines it can achieve supersonic. But from engineering point of view, supersonic flying wings with such thin wings, will not be feasible. The only way to make a flying wing supersonic is a bi-directional flying wing as per NASA’s...

By definition a “smart bomb” is a precision guided bomb that falls on it’s target solely with force of gravity. A 2000 lb MK84 bomb carries 429kg of Tritonal (20% Aluminium 80% TNT) high explosives. Any other munition that can deliver that amount of explosives with precision guidance are either...

https://www.defenceturk.net/tskya-t-70-helikopteri-teslimati A number of T70 Blackhawk helicopters have been delivered to various units of TURKISH armed Forces. This includes deliveries to Land Forces and Gendarmerie. One statement in above news piece is interesting that for the next 10 years...

https://sanayigazetesi.com.tr/turkiyenin-f-16-blok-70-ucaklarini-teslim-alacagi-tarih-aciklandi/ According to this news piece, LM official in charge has stated that subject to immediate signing of the order, the 40 V 70 F16 planes for TurAF will start to be delivered in mid 2027. So it is vital...

Satellite launching business is mega profit business. Where as half a ton being launched may be worth under 15 million dollars; A large load like 20 tons may be worth around 200 million dollars. In 2012 Boeing managed to generate 32billion dollars revenues for 17 launches. That is worth 44...

Below should shed some light : Quote A multistatic radar system contains multiple spatially diverse monostatic radar or bistatic radar components with a shared area of coverage. An important distinction of systems based on these individual radar geometries is the added requirement for some...

I am no radar specialist. My electromagnetic radiation knowledge doesn’t go further than second year University electronics and electric exam papers. But it sure does sound like along those lines. As far as I can understand from what I am reading and hearing, this is a radar system that will...