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I know that these platforms are for soft targets but that was just an example showing that we have other platforms much better suited for long range targets than an ATGM could ever be due to real physical limitations. To my knowledge, either we already have or are developing long range ground...

Where did you get this from. The systems which were used in 2nd Karabag war were primarily TB2 with MAM-L (70% kills accoding to Oryx), loitering ammunition, artillery (including rocket artillery) and manned A2G bombers. Most of the remainning 30% targets were still guided by TB2 doing the ISR...

Honestly I still don't get it when you say that we lack innovation or have stopped developing. Innovation is exactly what we do when we work on new platforms instead of trying to improve good enough platforms like OMTAS/UMTAS or even TB2. We are simply growing our platform envelope in new...

Just curious, why do you need longer range than 8km for an ATGM? You cant see any further anyway as an infantry soldier or ground based platform. The syrain war showed that most ATGM engagements were within 2-5km so 8km is fine. If you are thinking about Spike-NLOS with 30km range then you need...

I think we should sell it, even to Canada but with the condition that they use CATS flir ;)

Thank for sharing, hope it has a long and prosperous mission. 希望它有一个长期而繁荣的使命

I know it says Iron Dome-like but do we know anything about the performance of such system against more sophisticated targets from a real army. I'm thinking how is Iron Dome performing against super sonic ballistic missiles, low flying cruise missiles, small guided bombs like MAM-L or small...

You don't use CNC on optics. You grind and polish optics to your required dimensions from a large piece of glass. Cheaper parts can be molded directly to shape but these are never used in high grade optics. You could then add some thin-film coating for various reasons such as...

Turkey (Aselsan, Yital, ...) have silicon manufacturing labs/facility. These are used for ASIC chips which can not be obtained from abroad (think cryptography). They also aim at producing an ARM based or other RiSC based CPU. However, I think most of the standard chips are imported.

???? Care to explain for an old man?

Just curios, how did you come to the conclusion where the bomb hit is 150-200m from the cave entrance? My own very simple and amateur conclusion is that the bomb hit just left of halve way up from your green line. That make the distance between cave entrance (lower halve of your orange circle)...

TB2S with unlimited sat control already exist. The current version of TB2 has an extended range of 300km (earlier versions were 150km) as confirmed by Selcuk Bayraktar himself. Concerning the outdating, TB2 will off course be outdated sometime but TB2 will still be useful for the next 10-20...

Again, you are also comparing basic tactical drones with strategic drones. MQ-9 SeaGueardian/SkyGuardian cost about $100M. So; Tactical armed Akinci/Aksungur should be about $15-20M (50% of MQ-9) Strategic Akinci/Aksungur should cost about $50M (50% of MQ-9 SeaGuardian) For AWACS...

Nobody talks about what it cost to produce basic unarmed version. We discuss the export price for the specced out version like SeaGuardian where the actual production cost of the drone is only a small part. The price has to be relatively high for drones similar to SeaGuardian since even rich...

Which is similar to my estimate around $50-60M for fully specced out version but again this is just an estimate based on what other drones with similar capacity cost. My guess is based on half cost of MQ-9 SeaGuardian/SkyGuardian at +100M$ for marketing reasons. At this stage, we simply have to...

Obviously nobody knows at this point but $10-15M sound about right for the base configuration considering that TB2 is estimated to cost $3-5M on the export market. I put it above $10M on export market since it will most likely be produced in smaller volumes than TB2. For armed and special...

Patents are a legal arrangement which give you the right to sell a product to third parties in a specific market. It has noting to do with modifying your own purchased products. You can even produce patented products for your own use as long as you don't infringe on copyrights by placing...

Solar impulse was not particularly high altitude with its 8km ceiling, nor was it unmanned or had particularly long endurance (36h). You are probably thinking about NASA's Helios solar powered drone which reached about 30km. Forgetting about solar, I think a stealth drone equipped with 2 BWR...

The same thing happened back then as what you can see right now. Tribalism, where Arabs rather give away their land to westerners than help fellow Arabs in need. Just look how gulf states and Egypt behave right now when they completely abandon Philistines just to be on the good side with Trump...

Do anyone know why they selected a very low resolution optical (TV) sensor? A full size 20-50 Mpx sensor would beat the FHD sensor on any parameters like clarity, low noise, low light, flexibility, optical zoom or even cost since these are used in every single DLSR. (The bandwidth can't be a...