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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...

Depends on when the second stage is activated. If it is activated in terminal phase, then the terminal speed will increase. But we know that all two stage ballistic missiles use up their fuel before they start their downward ballistic flight. So it will have no effect on terminal speed. (It is...

I fully agree with the first paragraph of your article. I could not have put it better myself. However there is a point that needs to be made clear regarding what you mention within second paragraph to do with ballistic missiles. That is the matter of “terminal velocity” . Terminal velocity is...

PEM Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell system is the technology behind the AIP system we have. This is a very specialised power generation system developed for power generation in submarines. Below is a simple explanation of it. A Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell, also known as a...

May be one day! We haven’t even built a submarine that is totally indigenous to us yet. Let us walk before we run. VLS from a sub needs very sensitive know how and expertise. Although it is much more convenient to use VLS for surface attack missiles, for submarines’ core weapon, torpedoes, you...

In English there is a saying: “ how long is a piece of string?” When in the future? What version of Milden are we talking about? Current Milden design we have been served with, has no VLS available. It has 8 torpedo tubes with possibility to launch missiles through canisters fired from these...

SRBM missiles are best when they are manoeuvrable plus hypersonic in mid course and have a suppressed trajectory. Our Tayfun seems to have all these parameters. Only time such SRBMs can be efficiently intercepted is during terminal phase. So, for that reason, in order avoid interception, it...

This is how a solid fuelled ramjet, like in meteor, works. Yellow coloured solid solid fuel is stuck to the inner wall of the combustion chamber. Turquoise coloured solid fuel is the booster fuel that is used in bringing the missile to ramjet operational speeds. After expending the booster fuel...

Standard Gökhan must have a solid fuelled booster, to bring it to above Mach speed, to kick-start the ramjet engine. Most likely the solid fuel for booster is kept in the combustion chamber, like in meteor. Once depleted, the liquid/gel fuel should take over for propulsion and feed the ramjet...

Meteor : 365cm length Gokhan : ~510 cm length Meteor carries it’s solid fuel inside the combustion chamber, stuck to the periphery of the combustion chamber walls. By Tubitak director we have been told in the past that the Gökhan is liquid fuelled (gel form) . That means more space needed to...

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Piaggio Group is a 2+billion Euro turnover giant. Its Aerospace subsidiary has been losing money; and filed in for bankruptcy. It has a turnover of 150million Euros with an order book of 500million Euros. It is this subsidiary they are selling. In a way the group is off loading loss creating...