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Ignore button is a life saver here. https://www.twz.com/first-laser-weapon-for-a-fighter-delivered-to-the-air-force

When you use even a weak laser for a relatively much shorter period against a very sensitive IR seeker; You damage it. Therefore blind the missile. RF seeker ones require stronger lasers against their control surfaces...

Yes that is why Kizilelma desperately needs, DIRCM as powerful as it's systems allows and DAS for situational awareness against incoming missile and not getting lost during following 9G maneuvers while firing up chaff and flare. Again Red Flag never tests these more critical counter missile...

Destroying the missile is not as hard as it sounds. There is even a battery powered Turkish drone with ability to destroy bombs, household metal gas cylinders PKK uses. Modern DIRCM can focus its beam on the IR seeker or the control surfaces etc. So targeting isn't an issue either. It should...

I haven't read the entire answer. But DUH it will EVENTUALLY see the F35 with its own damn IR seeker when it gets close. Mid course RF route corrections from the source also exist you know. Why am I even telling you that? Isn't that obvious?

Says who. Go watch a Nikon handheld camera zooming to individual valleys on the moon. Better IRST is possible as technology advances. OBVIOUSLY. Sure you can. It is not hard at all. You have so many ways to guide your missile to your target without a lock. Radar lock is the most primitive way...

DAS system has a much shorter range than IRST, typically less than 10 km. Making IRST on Kizilelma work with it's AESA radar is sensor fusion too. It could help US defeat F-35 just like I showed you above. Sensor fusion, DAS, laser pod, other DIRCM, low RCS are not some magical things that...

These are AESA radar detection distances of 2 opposing fighters based on the frontal RCS Here it looks like we have to wait until we get as close as 18km. But IRST is 100+ km and it can cue our AESA radar to focus beams on that spot. Entire force of AESA radar focused on 1 tiny spot like laser...

Kizilelma has a RCS of 0.3m2 according to experts. That along with sheer numbers, 100+km IRST + laser DIRCM, it could be enough to take down 5th gen F35 fighters. Remember in Red Flag they don't actually FIRE missiles. Therefore we mustn't assume first shoot equals to first kill. A destructive...

America created and delivered a weapon strong enough to physically destroy fast incoming missiles (up to 100KW) via an airborne laser pod on THEIR F-16s. I doubt they will sell it to us. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/laser-weapons-coming-f-35-f-15-and-f-16s-187539 We should and with...

Am I speaking Chinese or something? Didn't you see the giant chart? Neither s400 nor Patriot can stop 100% of threats. Some will ALWAYS get through. If s400 stops 1 warhead and saves 1 million lives it will be worth 1000 F-35s that we can't reverse engineer due to complexity of both hardware...

We must have 100s of AKINCI and KIZILELMA unmanned systems for daily air patrols, interceptions, anti terror operations, heck even actual wars. You all saw how quickly Ukraine and even Russia lost great chunks of their manned fighter squadrons and precious hard to replace pilots. A few hundred...

I said it is not 100%. No system is. Depends on the threat. On average modern air defenses are %80 effective against ballistic missiles and around %90 for air breathing targets except hypersonic cruise missiles which are almost unstoppable. We can not trust s400 any more than we can trust F35...

Turkish s400 is active and protecting the Turkish capital against nuclear ballistic missiles, stealth air planes, cruise missiles with nukes that can come when we all are sleeping. It is located in Mürted airport and it is very much active all the time. There are pictures of the radar spinning...

Options are endless with software. F35s could always be secretly waiting a remote signal to shut down their engines. You can protect plane against reverse engineering by military encryption and by completely removing most critical pieces of code from planes and make planes run main server...

If America can sell F-35s, a plane that now beats F22 easily on Red Flag without compromising it's national security so can we sell KAAN without creating any national security problems for us. It is all in the software. Codes will stay with us. So will the true control of the planes. I say sell...

That's not how engines work. You can't synchronize or control 2 different engines without destroying the plane. It is tricky as it gets when its the same make and model.

Anybody has any ideas how this 6 billion turned into 23 billion despite basically the same items? Why the hell did we agree to this rip off?

False. B-21 or any other weapons project there is not slightly relevant to existence of Americans as a nation. KAAN is!

Adjusting unveiling of a great accomplishment like a 5th gen air superiority fighter to the election season makes perfect sense. And is the right of the government responsible for it to do so. Human attention span decreased to mere days due to era of social media. If KAAN is unveiled 2 weeks...