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Gabya Class Frigates are 135 metre long 4100 ton ships they are full of combat hardware. After the modernisations they have gone through, they are also the most capable air defence frigates we have in our fleet. However only 4 of them have the VLS system that can utilise quad pack ESSMs. I-Class...

@Nutuk , I think you will find that with twin engined jet propulsion, both engines rotate in the same direction. If memory serves it is generally anti clockwise looking at the engine from the front. Yet almost all RR engines and CFM engines rotate clockwise. Almost all GE and P&W engines rotate...

GaN's high power density, or its ability to dissipate heat from a small package, makes it so impressive. While GaAs has a basic power density of about 1.5 W/mm, GaN has a power density ranging from 5 to 12 W/mm. GaN has higher electron mobility than GaAs and other semiconductors, so it has a...

As per @Radonsider ’s response it is to do with the electric generator. Although @Nilgiri can answer this better. However UAE wanted better radar on their f16s and also more raw power for the plane. Hence they have paid over 3 billion dollars for the development of f110GE132 engines to GE.

AN/APG-83, the SABR Scalable Agile Beam Radar is a specially developed radar that uses as much energy as it is asked for. That way its energy consumption is regulated and kept low enough so as not to be a burden on the F16’s power generation systems. It is also designed so that it can almost be...

As far as I know Greek Airforce does not have the AIM-120/D missiles. It is the C version that both Turkish and Greek airforces have. Greek airforce Rafale’s however, are to have the MBDA’s game changer Meteor air to air missiles. If any of them have been delivered by MBDA is not clarified yet.

Let’s elaborate on your rough calculations: According to official US defence sources the cost of Greece’s 123 plane upgrade kit will cost them 2.4 billion dollars. This includes 125 Aesa radars and 123 kits of avionics etc...

Great post to get the juices flowing. @Anmdt has made it clear that squeezing anything bigger and more than an Istif class out of the current Milgem Ada Class is out of the question, unless the design is altered substantially, effectively creating a different breed of ship altogether. We all...

Super Simsek does not land in a conventional manner. Like its smaller sibling it can come back to base and do a parachute landing. So if launched from a ship, it will return and land close by at sea where it can be recovered from. There are also studies about recovering it from air with a C130...

Your humble opinion is correct to a degree. Yet may need some additions. The reason it is called a warhead is because the job it is supposed to do and the damage it is supposed to cause is done by the entirety of the warhead itself. The casing, what it contains as explosive, where it is to be...

It is within it’s mission envelopes and mission parameters. it‘s body and geometry is stealthy. But it has RCS augmenter fitted to make it more visible if needed whilst simulating as a fighter jet to sacrifice itself in place of the jet fighter it is accompanying. But it can also fly 700km deep...

Super-Simsek is a weapon/drone. Valkyrie XQ-58 is a UCAV akin to our KE or Anka-3 and although it is comparatively cheaper than the main fighter aircraft it is accompanying and can be sacrificed in stead, it is not as expendably cheap as a Super-Simsek. Remember that XQ-58 can land back to its...

Siper is the booster added version of Hisar O+ missile. There are actuators on those fins. So they have aerodynamic thrust control. That is the PAF portion. What Siper seems to be lacking according to given statements is the PIF portion. That is the inertial powered thrust vectoring portion...

PIF/PAF (Pilotage enforce/Pilotage aerodynamique fort, inertial steering by force/aerodynamic steering by force) This is a great tool to steer an AD missile against highly manoeuvrable missiles and targets. But as per @Afif has said it is not a must. Aster missiles have this and they destroy...

Not quite just that. Siper will hit any flying object within its range and altitude envelope. These will include supersonic and subsonic jets and missiles. Provided our radars can identify and target a ballistic missile it will hit it. Both Hisar and Siper use dual pulse rocket engines that have...

%ge use of Oil?? Something not quite correct there?? That must be figures for electricity production only! Turkey consumed 246 million barrels of imported crude oil in 2022, in addition to 29 million barrels of locally produced crude oil, according to official data. That makes 275 million...

https://www.savunmasanayist.com/birlesik-krallikin-gozu-israilin-rampage-fuzesinde/ I don’t know how many times I have mentioned that we should be taking a page from Israel’s book and turn our TRG300 in to air launched 300+km supersonic air to ground attack missile. RAF apparently has been...

These are all great news. I have been hearing these type of possible discoveries and potential production numbers since 1960s. So please excuse me if I sound a bit of a sceptic. But I will believe it when I see it. Turkey needs just over 1million barrels of oil very day (1004 thousand barrels to...

According to what Dr Kotil has stated in Paris show on 20th June, Anka3 should fly in 2 weeks with a +/- 2 days’ margin of error . https://aviationweek.com/shownews/paris-air-show/tais-kotil-reveals-first-flight-dates-anka-3-kaan There were delays due to problems in the manufacturing and...

According to SSB and Mr Kotil’s past statements on the prototype issues, there were 5 prototypes of Hurjet being built from day one (these included the ground test units); And there will be 14 KAAN prototypes built before serial production of Block 10 are in the pipeline. 2 of these 14 will be...