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A corvette is essentially a combatant. An OPV is primarily a patrol ship. So one is designed to fight, the other to show the flag and be ready for minor skirmishes. Consequentially an OPV should be structurally weaker than a corvette. But since Hisar Class ships were built with the notion of...

That is probably correct for a company like GE, P&W orRR. Turkey doesn’t have a company that has the knowledge and physical&practical know how to accomplish such an engineering project. It needs an eco system to support it. We may know how it is built. But it is not the same as physically doing...

These last few posts and the timeline given about KAAN are like a poker table bidding. First it was Mr Kotil who gave us 2028 as the first indigenous KAAN engine to fly the plane. Tusas MD Demiroglu said that in first half of 2030 KAAN will fly with completely indigenous engines. Then Current...

Yes and no! In all partnerships there is always a leader or a captain. How much pull this leader has differs as to how the partnership is designed. In F35, US always had the main control. All other countries were so called “partners”. US allowed their plane to be shared/sold freely to those...

Turkish navy did have these ASROC Anti Submarine Rocket Torpedoes. e g in Knox Class Frigates. It had a 9km to 10 km range and had subsonic speed. Later on it was developed in to RUM-139 version that is capable of being launched from a VLS and has a 1 Mach speed and 22km range...

This Altay serial production business is some form of gimmickry to me. Production is to start in 2025. But first tank will join inventory on 30th August. In fact in 2025 they are envisaging delivery of 3 tanks. (Pls read last paragraph of the below article) So, 1-1-2-4-8 production speed per...

Can you remember the saying : If you build it they will come. This reminds me of it. I guess the times are such that everyone is trying to grab a piece of a modern and high quality defence equipment as soon as they can. That means it is a sellers market.

More importantly, it means any target that is 400km from Turkish shores are in range. Plus, if they are revealing this as the effective range; in reality it is further away. In the Sea of Islands where those islands present a natural camouflage for a sea skimming missile, there is no surface...

Just check those 1000kg NEB bunker buster bombs and the SOM-J that can penetrate concrete bunkers Akinci can carry. Akinci can easily carry 3 x 500kg bunker buster bombs under its belly. Below with a NEB that weighs total of 1360kg , when powered by 2 x 750HP PT6 engines. There was a 850HP...

İt must be to do with logistics and ease of finding trained staff and being close to the eco system of the related industry. Whence the eco system of shipbuilding becomes countrywide and the relaying of parts and finding trained personnel due to longer distances stops being a hindrance, then it...

First we need to look at why Baykar bought Piaggio. This can be discussed from two different angles: optimistic angle and pessimistic angle. Let us look at the pessimistic angle first: First of all Baykar is a private concern and has to make sure that it‘s future is secured. It has at the...

OK! Noted. But if you read the article again and what the minister is saying, you will see that he is talking about “consolidating their leadership in Europe” regarding aerospace by marrying Leonardo with a similar company. It has nothing to do with Baykar’s leadership and Baykar’s purchase of...

Great! But this is only the quarter of the story. We need to be testing the 32-50 km range missiles, and then for both of them we need to carry out air to ground tests from Atak-129, Seahawk, TB3, Akinci etc. These missiles will be partly replacing the Penguin AShM in our inventory too. So...

At the current state of affairs, the T70 contract has to be extended. We have too heavily invested in both on the engine side and the helicopter structure and avionic side, to jump ship to go for something else. On the utility and heavy attack helicopter side, if we can get the licensed engine...

https://m5dergi.com/genel/video-trump-jeffrey-sachsin-netanyahuya-kufur-iceren-videosunu-paylasti/ Trump share a university proffesor’s speech regarding US Netenyahu relations where Netenyahu is called a Son Of B….. ; with no comments or title. I wonder why? What message is he trying to convey?

I am afraid, that is a short sighted and nationalistic view and approach. You can’t be a world leader of UAVs and UCAVs if you don’t have : 1. unrestricted access to turboshaft and turbofan engines and 2. unrestricted access to markets you can sell to. What Baykar has accomplished is...

Although I respect your line of thought, I don’t agree with it. A low powered internal combustion engined fighting vehicle with very low tech input. vs A helicopter that is more than 70% locally produced with state of the art local tech avionics and engines where most of it , including hot...

If you check Aselsan's site you will find the range finder and laser range of said Flir is 30 km. The unfortunate thing is that these laser guided missiles will have to be launched from Anka S from under cloud flight. That places the platform within manpad range or short range AD systems. 8 km...

Initially that is what I thought too. But he mentions acceptance of delivery of a quantity of T-70 helicopters. Just listen carefully. 30th second: “çeşitli miktarlarda T-70 genel maksat helikopteri”

Easier said than done! Even a short range missile like Tayfun needs 456 seconds to travel 561 km. That time also includes the suppressed trajectory altitude it needs to get up to and down again to cover a straight line distance of 561km. The actual burn time of the fuel is very short. Not in...