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Gökhan engine is liquid fuelled ramjet. But it is gel form liquid fuel. Therefore it behaves like a solid fuel regarding storage and mixing it with solid particles. You can add solid particles to it to improve burn efficiency. And those particles don’t sink to the bottom. They are more...

You will have to send your manned jets to drop the NEB class bombs literally on top of the target to have the right effect. Stand off bombing is not an option. Also there is a lot of HKG class precision bombs in our inventory. To fire these and Gazap on to ground targets you need to get within...

To say they are superior is a subjective sentence. To have a throttle control until it hits the target is a big advantage. But ramjets are costly. And they need to reach 1+ Mach before ramjet kicks in. A dual pulse long range a2a missile can do the same deed at half the cost. %ge kill rate may...

I don’t think that drone ever materialised in quantity. The last news about it was that TUSAŞ was preparing it as a 0.9 Mach drone. It was first mentioned by Mr Kotil...

Siper 1 probably can engage slower, lower altitude targets at longer ranges than 100km. But it really needs to be tested against a supersonic fighter jet flying at 50000ft performing manoeuvres. Remember US using f4s and Mig29s for that purpose. Same goes for the a2a missiles. Using high speed...

No! As far as I know effective range and altitude: Siper 1 : 100+km range , 20+km altitude Siper 2 : 150+km range, 30+km altitude Siper 3 : 180+km range , with ballistic missile interception capability.

That is what they are trying to do. But there must be something holding them back that they keep postponing the date for 2 flying prototypes being ready. They should have been well flying by now if we are to go by Demiroglu’s first statement.

Hayalet is a bunker buster penetrator bomb. In order to penetrate, it is dropped from 30000+ft and hits the ground at supersonic speeds (1.3 Mach). If you let it glide you won’t get the penetrating power.

If you are talking about parts Q/C tests, that is an issue that they should be doing now. They have come to a stage where they are ready to build a prototype. In virtual world and in computer drawings they have an engine with each part to be produced already specified to the quality level they...

I don’t remember Dr Aksit ever mentioning a 3700lbf being reached. I followed most of his interviews. When they first got the TF6000 ready, he said that in the first firing tests they may not reach the 6000lbf target. But he said it should be 3500 or more. As the engine matures the thrust...

Tayfun is a quasi ballistic missile. It doesn’t leave atmosphere. It has a suppressed trajectory. It should attack its target at near perpendicular angles to lower air drag. It has a a sleek and aerodynamic structure. Due to terminal velocity laws it’s hypersonic speeds will diminish in to...

How can that be passive? That statement doesn’t sound right to me. If it is relaying signal, then it is active. Radar is a device that operates in electromagnetic domain. If you are sending signals then you are active. Aesa radars do that cleverly by sending signals in rotating frequency...

Answer to that is in post #4183 in previous page in italic letters.

This range is at the limit of Intermediate Range and Medium range ballistic missiles. These class of ballistic missiles fly well in to space, then return back to earth after re-entry. For one thing, S400 may not even track it. They are too fast to track and target. S400 system is optimised to...

Fatah-2 of Iran is claimed to be a “type of” hypersonic glide vehicle. It is supposed to have a 1400 to 2000 km range. The main body of the missile is a ballistic missile that carries the HGV to almost edge of atmosphere where it is released and the front section starts its decent, supported...

Can you please share the source of this statement please? This is huge if true.

Sorry! But can you explain what you mean with these statements. It doesn’t make sense. As far as Hypersonic missile technology go, what I understand goes like this : 1. A ballistic missile may fly briefly in hypersonic speeds 2. A ballistic missile may fly most of it’s flight with hypersonic...

S400 can only hit ballistic missiles with a range of max 2000km that are flying in a set ballistic trajectory. Atacms are manoeuvring missiles. S400 most likely couldn’t target it. Many s400 systems were hit as a result. But then heavy EW and loss of GPS detracted from Atacms’ precision.

I don’t know where you got those detection ranges. But it doesn’t sound logical for the stealth planes. Even RCS values are subjective to a degree. I remember reading that export level S400s could lock onto F35, 35-50km away depending on position etc. Russian claim that their S400 apparently...

This is an interesting peace of munition. Penetrating bombs use physics to go deep. As they are heavy and aerodynamic, they gain incredible speeds during their downward flight. A bomb like this can reach speeds of 500m/second (1.2-1.3 Mach) when it hits the ground as dictated by terminal...