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There seems to be some misunderstanding here. What @Chocopie is suggesting is a viable cooperation between two countries where they join forces to develop certain technologies together. We see examples of these cooperative endeavours in France/UK, France/Italy, France/Germany, UK/Italy joint...

MTOW stands for Maximum Take-Off Weight. So as the name suggests it is the maximum weight with which the plane can manage to take off, with the engine that is on it. That includes everything ; the payload (internal plus external) and fuel. quote: The Dassault nEUROn UCAV is configured as a...

Best way to fight and have the upper hand in any battle or war is to be able to slap your opponent in any way you want when they don’t have hands and arms to defend themselves with. In all Northern Syrian Turkish interventions, be it against Daesh or YPG/PKK or Syrian Regime Forces, this has...

Anka-3 should have at least 10 years newer technology on board. A lot of F35 fuselage manufacturing know-how gained over the last decade by Tusas may have gone in to the Anka’s fuselage as well. Anka-3 quite likely consists mostly of lighter composite parts. Hence the lighter empty weight...

ESSM is one of the most potent air defence missiles around today. It is supposed to stay in service well in to latter part of 2030’s. No one in public domain really knows what it’s maximum altitude and range is. Most educated guesstimates are with a possible effective range of up to 80km. Any...

Horizon distance depends entirely on how high you are or where your radar is. As a quick calculator let me give you a simple formula: Horizon distance = 3.57 √eye height So if you stood on a cliff 33.5m high with your eyes at 36m; Horizon distance = 3.57 x √36 = 21.4km Due to atmospheric...

Similar but different. Deli has a 3.1 kg explosive payload with a MTOW of 13kg and 85km range. It stays in the air for 75minutes while cruising at 80km/h and has a top speed of 180km/h. It can operate day and night against sea or land surface targets. It is capable of target search and...

Idealab IL-1600 engine supposedly powers the Super-Şimşek

I really hope that the Hisar-RF or even Siper can be quad packed in to our MIDLAS. But one has to take in to consideration the exhaust return chutes and their space requirements? You don’t just fit the bare missiles in to those canisters. All those gasses and flames have to be exhausted from the...

Prof Aksit has been conducting negotiations with GE for local under licence manufacturing of F404 engines. Let us hope that those negotiations have come to fruition finally. Otherwise buying these engines outright will not bring anything to our defence industry and is in fact the wrong route to...

From my intensive investigation, my understanding was such that the Aesa radar and tranche 3 upgrades are all possible on tranche 1 planes. But it is the cost factor that makes it not feasible. The amount of equipment and parts that need upgrading and changing is too many and too costly for the...

Well! You have just told us a summary of exactly what I have already written in my post. You needn’t have bothered. But you have still not answered my question about what is wrong with the statement I made. I guess it is not in your vocabulary to say “misunderstood” or “sorry”.

“Altay tank has a version of this TAKS as well.” TAKS means Top Atış Kontrol Sistemi/Tank Atış Kontrol Sistemi (In English, Gun or Tank Fire Control System) What is wrong with that first statement? A version of TAKS was started to be developed by Aselsan for 76mm naval gun in 2006 after...

According to this video as of December 2022 they had serial production of KTJ3200 going on. Already 10 KTJ3200 engines were ready for delivery to Roketsan. They were planning to produce well over a hundred engines in a year. Considering TSK has some 410+ SOM missiles on order and a good deal of...

Aselsan, since 2006 has been developing a Fire Control System called TAKS. This has been upgraded further during the course of the last 3 years in to newer and more accurate versions. Both 127mm and 76 mm guns have been fired with great success, controlled by this system. It has full control...

@Afif Datalink refers to digital air/ground communications between aircraft and ground systems. By definition. If you read below article, you will notice that Baykar’s site states that Kemankes has data link capability. It has to have a two way communications ability in order perform what is...

Kemankes missile has some form of AI which controls the targeting system. But the missile is specifically made to be controlled from ground. It has a command system control via the TB2 that launched it. It has 36x zoom camera that relays ground info to command centre. We know that our and...

Compact? Yes. Effective? No. Anything less than 35mm for air burst is not going to cut it. I would rather go for a 40mm air burst round for a ship’s CIWS. With supersonic and even hypersonic missiles becoming more widespread, it is important to intercept these missiles as far away from the...

Please read the MTCR original and revised conditions first, then ask this question. Manned fighter planes (f16) are not covered by MTCR. An unmanned armed air vehicle is covered under MTCR.

For manned systems like fighter aircrafts, there is no restriction on ranges. But for UAVs and missiles on their own or carried by UAVs, there are restrictions regarding MTCR. In this context, the MTCR places particular focus on rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a...