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https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-now-has-two-aircraft-carriers-at-sea-2/ Two ships, QE2 & Prince of Wales together cost 7.6 billion pounds in 2017. Inflation corrected to today’s money, that is 10.3 billion pounds which translates to 13.3 billion dollars. They were each, supposed to be...

We all have aspirations for better and more powerful weapons. But there are limits to what we can afford and what we can technically manufacture. Electro Magnetic Aircraft Launch System is a very expensive system. Even more expensive is to develop it. That is why the French are contemplating...

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Actually the answer is hidden in my post. With planes where engines are far apart, the twin rudders give better control over the rudder in case of an engine failure. But there is an optimum place where these rudders are placed and how apart and large they need to be. To optimise RCS and rudder...

I don’t understand this fixation of a plane looking ugly or beautiful. Who cares how ugly a plane looks? These are machines to kill. If it does what it is supposed to do, it doesn’t matter an iota even if it looks beautiful or not. Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Here is The...

Fitted For But Not With. = FFBNW Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat = RHIB 1905 = MCMV The Rest I need to look up from google . I don’t know how many of our members fluently know all these. But with age, and not being involved in some of these day in day out I personally find it difficult to follow...

I fully agree with you with respect to the unnecessity of a Carrier for our Navy. More than a vanity project it is probably a political project though. However, even the study of the project will open our horizons. 2 LHDs,, one of them a UAV carrier, and at least 2 more LSTs would normally...

Quote: advantage of having twin vertical stabilizers is that the location of vertical tails helps in having control authority at high alpha(where the fuselage/wing can blank a single vertical stabilizer). In modern stealth aircraft, having a twin tail enables them to be canted, helping in...

Transporting of cartridges and storing it can be sorted out fairly quickly. Look at the liquid gas tubes currently used in Turkish homes. Even with low tech available in last century, it has been in use for over 6-7 decades. With specialised fuel stations and rigorous quality control, it can be...

That is good; that means there is something we can discuss about. I agree that hydrogen wouldn’t replace natural gas at homes. In fact to bring such a volatile gas to homes would be madness in our current level of technology. But cheaper electricity will replace natural gas. Already heat pump...

There are two drawbacks in a Hydrogen powered system: 1. Storage Storage of Hydrogen needs to be in special canisters as it is one of the most volatile substances. It needs to be kept in liquid form. Hydrogen gas turns to liquid at minus 253 degrees Celsius. That alone is a drawback on it’s...

Göktürk-3 is a Sun Synchronous Sattellite at an orbit of 500km from earth. That means it always covers a sun illuminated area on earth, whilst sitting on a near polar position. Hence giving high resolution pictures of the surface of earth at day and night. Do we know the SAR resolution values...

When compared to each other, Rafale cost and F35 cost may not look too different. Germany “pegged” the price of its 35 units of F35 at 8.4 billion dollars. India bought 36 Rafale jets for 8.7billion dollars. Germany signed the deal in 2022. The 7.7% inflation corrected price puts German...

To suggest that a country like Malaysia can’t afford KAAN, is total nonsense. Countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam all can afford to buy KAAN. They all have descent nominal GDPs and national wealth to invest in our plane. Malaysia is one of the “Tiger economies”...

A landing strip is not enough. You need special ground systems, ancillaries and specially trained crew, in addition to the specially designed enclosures to house step platforms and equipment. If we go over just a few small details: - A minimum capacity of 2,100 cubic feet of nitrogen at 3,500...

Today is the 101st year of the Republic of Turkiye. Happy Republic day to all the Turks in the forum.

Interesting idea. But there isn‘t much info about how it works. They seem to be driving the compressor section with an electric motor that is powered by a generator, rather than using the turbine section as in conventional jet engines. According to their documentation the engine is adaptive...

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First of all please be reminded that this is the UAV/UCAV thread. Anka 4 has been mentioned above. Does anyone know what Anka-4 is? If memory serves, the first time it was mentioned was by Temel Kotil, when he was talking about Anka-3. He said something about producing the supersonic version...