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ASW is an important subject when it comes to protecting assets like TCG Anadolu. For that, at least one Reis Class will have to be assigned to the ship at all times. But also good sensors and sonars are needed on board. When it comes to actual ASW, you can not beat the power of a Helicopter like...

There is an order for Hurjet , 4 definite and 12 on option placed with Tusas. But it is only a start. If it is true that Tusas has ordered 100 F404 engines, that means more orders will come. https://www.savunmasanayist.com/tusasa-412-adet-hurjet-siparisi/...

I fully agree with you. This ship is naked when it comes to self protection. Couple of Phalanx will never cut it. It needs on board protection at a level that is commensurate with a vessel of this stature. Goksur is a good close-in-weapons system. Its designers are very confident that they can...

In order to understand this fully, you need to have a good grasp of burnout and egress effects of dorsal fins on a missile. Just by enlarging or bringing it close to vector control fins you would alter the response of the missile positively or negatively with respect to egress or burnout. By...

All our new air defence missiles, be it Hisar or Siper, have dual pulse rocket engines. By that logic I would expect Siper Block 2 to have a dual pulse motor. If you look at latest MIM-4 PAC-3 MSE rocket engine; It utilises a dual pulse motor. Where as PAC-2 had a dual thrust (boost-sustain...

@uçuyorum , Please don’t be misguided by trick explanations and descriptions regarding rocket stages. If you do not take in to account the booster section, Siper Block 1 also has a single stage rocket engine. Dual pulse (using the fuel tank in two stages) or dual thrust (using two different...

The Rail gun has one very big advantage ; low cost of it’s projectiles. But it has many major disadvantages at our current technological state : 1. It almost destroys the gun’s inner parts after each firing. Needs constant maintenance. 2. The amount of energy needed to fire each shot is so large...

What is a more useful measure to judge a nation's economy: GDP (nominal) or GDP (PPP) : Well, it depends on the situation and what you are trying to measure: For year-over-year growth comparisons, always go with PPP. For countries where economic activity is mostly domestic (e.g. China and...

100% correct. In Turkish language there is no specific difference. However, in mass production, the production of article in question is continuous. In serial production, a specific batch of goods is produced, then there is a downtime. After the downtime, production system may be altered or...

As far as I understand, Mr Bayraktar has said “serial production”. Not mass production. Serial production of a complex machine like a plane is never the same as producing prototypes. You need to get the eco system to feed the production line, ready. You need to straighten out the kinks in...

There are various methods of testing a new engine. First a newly developed engine has to go through rigorous ground testing procedures. After initial firing, an engine is tested and upgraded for a long time. The TF6000, for example, intended to give 6000lbf dry thrust, may only give 3500lbf...

This part is Correct to a degree. Modern western aero engine maintenance philosophy is based on preventative maintenance rather than changing parts as and when it breaks or needs changing due to wear and tear. But parts that are marked for longer life are changed at longer intervals. Also due to...

Before anyone is to start to talk about KAAN and it’s engines’ thrust level, one thing that needs to be made clear is that, for a 5th generation plane it is the dry thrust that really matters and not the wet thrust. These planes are supposed to supercruise, and will fly without afterburners most...

Please try not to stray from the topic’s main subject. remember this is not f35 thread. But KAAN, F16, Ozgur and Hurjet thread.

Re: Gabya Class These old ships, as per @Brave Janissary ’s comments, are the backbone of our naval surface power at the moment. We have 8 of them. 4 have VLS and contain extensive modernisation within their hulls. They are the largest combatant ships in Turkish Navy (with the exception of TCG...

A quick question: The whole idea of artillery rockets is to provide cheap multiple deployable artillery rounds in rocket form. Doesn’t introducing a Ramjet propulsion in to such systems make it rather expensive whilst defeating the very object of cheap rounds? As a reference : rampage 300mm...

No it is not. It is in fact rarer than rare earth elements. Also known as Wolfram ; In Turkey there is a mine in Uludag Bursa where over 1400 metric tons of ore was being excavated on a daily basis. Etibank and a German consortium somehow stopped mining it. The mine is near the summit of Mount...

F4 are iconic planes. Almost “Jack-of-all-trades” kind of aircrafts . Naval versions, Air Superiority versions, Air to Ground attack versions, reconnaissance versions. You name it they have it. But they were too rigid and old tech. One of my colleagues’ dad was a f16 pilot. He used to say they...

There are those that believe that electronics and modern avionics accompanied by a good Aesa radar is what makes a good fighter jet; irrespective of how new or old the plane is. When you think that a twin turbojet engine powered F4 Phantom broke the world altitude record of 98557ft in 1959 and...

T-38s aren’t bad planes to be trained on. Also there should be a few Hurjet planes ready to be trained on by 2028, as 12 initial orders were already placed with Tusas last year. Low level initial production should provide early examples of Hurjet trainers. There were 42 members of our airforce...