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Sixth Generation fighter jet expected properties have been discussed here in detail before. 1. All 5th generation specifications will be there and will be improved. 2. Involvement of pilot in flight will be minimised; Improving AI for most functions will make these planes capable of being...

https://www.defenceturk.net/altinay-gemiler-icin-helikopter-yakalama-ve-transfer-sistemini-yerlilestirdi After Canada placed an embargo on it, Altinay Defence has managed to indigenise the “ASSIST” system that captures helicopters and aids them to be pulled in to hangar on sea platforms. Well...

From a gas turbine engine point of view you are correct. It would also mean that we would need maintenance crews that understand turbine engine technology. Actually, Prof Aksit was asked the question about which company is best suited to produce a tank engine for Altay when in early 2015...

Both assumptions have valid points. Altay, fits in to the category of tanks that need to be supported by infantry. Also it is not a tank that should be driven in to urban warfare. Even if it is supposed to give support to AFVs and other lightly armoured units. Altay may take a long time to be...

That is the idea behind this modernisation to a certain degree. Also a tank like Altay would be too valuable and behemoth of an asset to push forward for quick, fast surgical strikes to give support to infantry armoured columns. A lighter and more capable alternative that is closer to a medium...

Later engines may well have 4th generation blades. But as you can see from below paper that 4th generation blades were still being developed by December 2004. F119 engine was being developed in early 1980’s. F22’s and f119’s maiden flight was in 1997. P&W was given the contract to produce the...

Someone ought to explain to the program planners the physics and effects of metal fatigue in machinery. Here we are criticising the purchase of 20+ year old Type 23 frigates because of their age; Yet our tank engineers are contemplating “modernising” a tank tech that was first put in to active...

Good informative paper. Since its first introduction in to gas turbine engines in 1982 by Pratt & Whitney, single crystal blades have been going through many transformations. By adding rare metals like Rhenium or rhodium in small amounts, the heat resistance properties of blades have been...

There are two different tanks in western armed forces: 1. Tanks with rifled guns, whose main purpose is to give support to infantry and to spearhead surgical strikes in to enemy positions with HE and HEP rounds. For these tanks to knock out an enemy tank with a sabot round is secondary; Their...

According to @Anmdt ’s above post, first steel cutting of I-Class ’s 3 new ships will start in April this year. They give a time frame of 36 months before ships are delivered. But in 6 monthly intervals. That makes it Mid 2027 before all 4 I-Class ships are in our inventory. Now some members...

Although classed as a shallow sea, the Aegean is not as shallow as one may think it is. It’s maximum depth is over 3600metres. Many areas are over 500m even 1000m in depth. Just check out the map below:

Not really. If used cleverly almost all our frigates would be useful. But Ada-Class Milgem ships (including I-Class) having a stealthy hull, are specially ideal for the Aegean. That goes for the Hisar Class OPVs as well since they are built with the same hull as the Ada-Class. FACs are the...

Can it not be the fact that they are using the same gun that was already there?

Great news. Finally those tin cans will be more able fighting machines that can withstand today’s modern battlefield conditions. My only criticism is: Why 105mm gun and not 120mm? Especially when we have a winning formula in front of us with the ~170 M60TM with PULAT and new Volkan fire control...

Please note that Kinzhal is nothing more than an Iskander missile integrated on to a Mig 31K jet, which increases it’s overall effective range. Iskander missiles, in spite of all the hype about them, were successfully intercepted at Karabakh, by the Israeli built Barak-8 missiles. As stated...

I fully agree with everything you have written here. You have hit the nail on the head. But with the hat of a “Think Tank Analyst” I was expecting from you a bit more insight in to our current situation and the need for air defence frigates versus financial constraints plus platforms that need...

I would like to ask you Two questions. But please answer without preconceptions but with logic only. 1. If UK gave us those 4 ships for free as part of the Typhoon and Engine deal like a sweetener; should we accept them or decline? 2. Same as above but if they had a price tag of 25 million...

According to this video RR, with Orpheus engine, intends to use technologies within it for the Tempest engine project. Tempest engine will be an Adaptive Cycle engine. But according to this video, it will also have components of technology that will relate it to the Orpheus.

An engine is an entity in its own right. If it is called f404 then no matter how many parts or how much of it is produced by Volvo or TEI or IHI, it’s IP rights stay with GE. Without GE’s permission they can not produce the whole engine and they can not develop the engine to a more upgraded...

Tech can be released or transferred in the form of machinery producing specific parts of an engine. But that does not mean those parts and the engine can be sold to third parties freely. Quote: The US engines (F404/F414) that are the source of parts for the Volvo engines are military products...