Korea's KF-21 fighter jet succeeds in maiden supersonic flight
January. 17. 2023
National2023-01-17 18:53
This photo shows the prototype of the KF-21 Boramae surpassing Mach 1 during a flight, Tuesday. Courtesy of DAPA
By Kang Seung-woo
The KF-21 Boramae, the nation's first...
Guess she‘s thinking of a legal framework like the Nuremberg trials. An evidence of the naïveté and idealism of the Greens believing in powerless international institutions. This is not how the world works. Laws need enforcement and Russia ain‘t Serbia or Rwanda.
Putin will die peacefully of...
Not really a problem, the MTU is superior in power to weight ratio.
K2 suits Korean mountainous terrain and has less side armor (55 tonnes weight). Also lighter due to autoloader and therefore 3 instead of 4 crew men.
Altay T1 is a lot heavier armored like European MBT (65 tonnes) with 4 men...
Slightly different variants.
AS-90 gun is 155 mm 39 caliber (25 km standard charges).
Polish Krab has an optimized AS-90 Braveheart turret with a longer 52 caliber gun (30+ km standard charges). And it has Polish automated FCS Topaz and many other Polonized sub-systems.
This is not the Euro power pack engine (MT883 Ka-500/501).
According to German wiki specs for MB838 Ka-501:
MB 838 Ka-501
1030 kW (1400 PS)
2400/min
1810 × 1940 × 1110 mm
1950 kg
170/175 mm
8 Zyl./3,97 l
31,7 l...
Not an expert, but the dry weight of the Korean diesel engine is said to be ~500 kg heavier than the MTU. As a long stroke engine it‘s also bigger in dimensions.
MTU designs and builds diesel engines for armored tracked vehicles since 1918. That‘s over 100 years of experience and one premier...
Kim Dae Jung, Roh Moo Hyun, Moon Jae In: now you know my political color.
I judge our presidents not only by their political or economical success or failure in their presidency, I judge them also by their virtues, character and what lifes they have lived as a human being.
In that regard I...
Hyundai Doosan Infracore DV27K displacement is 27,2 L.
K2 planned Korean transmission (new reliability test needed) is not from Doosan.
SNT Dynamics EST15K has 6 forward/3 reverse gears.
http://www.hisntd.com/eng/business/mobile.html
As an outsider who speaks Western and East Asian language all these Turkish weapon system names not only for aircrafts or drones are difficult to memorize (pronounciation will always be somewhat botched by non-Turkish speakers).
The X in TFX stands for „experimental“ afaik and the bird will...
122 mm rocket? Must be a Eastern Europe country with ex-Soviet MLRS like Grad. Didn‘t knew that Israelis produce them.
Edit: Oh, Roketsan produces TRG-120 mm rockets. Didn‘t know that either.
Now I understand your intention. Thanks for your explanation.
The US are master players in this game and they have many tools in their box. My opinion is, that Türkiye can‘t allow itsself to isolate further whatever the outcome will be. Greece is merely a useful figure (hope their strategists...
If I understand correctly, you‘ll use a possible Chinese procurement as leverage and tit-for-tat threat against US underhand maneuvers regarding F-35 sales to Greece.
My doubt was, would the US side believe it and take it serious? Chances are, that the Americans would see it as a tactical bluff.
Procuring Chinese fighter aircraft (SSN isn‘t realistic IMO, even the Chinese doesn‘t export them) would mean changing the whole NATO oriented ecosystem (communications, missiles, maintenance, training etc.). Is that feasible? The US wouldn‘t believe such a drastic step.
Türkiye would have to...
The obviously ridiculous scenario of my post wasn‘t meant as an insult. If you feel offended as a Canadian my apologies, sir. Maybe your and my humor code doesn‘t align. A sincere discussion of above topic is always welcomed.
I‘ll refrain from humorous attempts in the future ☮️
Let‘s be silly and imagine a divided Canada after a gruesome civil war.
West Canada is ruled by the batshit-crazy Poilievre dynasty, a nuclear weapon state that regularly shoots ballistic missiles into the Hudson Bay. Your big neighbour USA (a dystopic police state) supports this brutal regime...
Someday this war‘s gonna end. And your men will come back home to Russia and ruin its society even more than it is now. Your side has already lost, you haven‘t realized it yet. Hubris is a poison.
