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Prof Aksit has been conducting negotiations with GE for local under licence manufacturing of F404 engines. Let us hope that those negotiations have come to fruition finally. Otherwise buying these engines outright will not bring anything to our defence industry and is in fact the wrong route to...

From my intensive investigation, my understanding was such that the Aesa radar and tranche 3 upgrades are all possible on tranche 1 planes. But it is the cost factor that makes it not feasible. The amount of equipment and parts that need upgrading and changing is too many and too costly for the...

Well! You have just told us a summary of exactly what I have already written in my post. You needn’t have bothered. But you have still not answered my question about what is wrong with the statement I made. I guess it is not in your vocabulary to say “misunderstood” or “sorry”.

“Altay tank has a version of this TAKS as well.” TAKS means Top Atış Kontrol Sistemi/Tank Atış Kontrol Sistemi (In English, Gun or Tank Fire Control System) What is wrong with that first statement? A version of TAKS was started to be developed by Aselsan for 76mm naval gun in 2006 after...

According to this video as of December 2022 they had serial production of KTJ3200 going on. Already 10 KTJ3200 engines were ready for delivery to Roketsan. They were planning to produce well over a hundred engines in a year. Considering TSK has some 410+ SOM missiles on order and a good deal of...

Aselsan, since 2006 has been developing a Fire Control System called TAKS. This has been upgraded further during the course of the last 3 years in to newer and more accurate versions. Both 127mm and 76 mm guns have been fired with great success, controlled by this system. It has full control...

@Afif Datalink refers to digital air/ground communications between aircraft and ground systems. By definition. If you read below article, you will notice that Baykar’s site states that Kemankes has data link capability. It has to have a two way communications ability in order perform what is...

Kemankes missile has some form of AI which controls the targeting system. But the missile is specifically made to be controlled from ground. It has a command system control via the TB2 that launched it. It has 36x zoom camera that relays ground info to command centre. We know that our and...

Compact? Yes. Effective? No. Anything less than 35mm for air burst is not going to cut it. I would rather go for a 40mm air burst round for a ship’s CIWS. With supersonic and even hypersonic missiles becoming more widespread, it is important to intercept these missiles as far away from the...

Please read the MTCR original and revised conditions first, then ask this question. Manned fighter planes (f16) are not covered by MTCR. An unmanned armed air vehicle is covered under MTCR.

For manned systems like fighter aircrafts, there is no restriction on ranges. But for UAVs and missiles on their own or carried by UAVs, there are restrictions regarding MTCR. In this context, the MTCR places particular focus on rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a...

38 lbf IL170 turbojet engine of IdeaLab. https://en.defenceturk.net/meet-baykars-jet-powered-kemankes-loitering-munition/ This is an ingenious missile. I do have reservations on the prices quoted here. It has to be more expensive than suggested. EDIT Although the maximum range is given as...

He doesn’t mention Gokdogan being fired from a VLS. But he specifically mentions Bozdogan being adapted so that it can be fired from a hot launch VLS with TVC capabilities included so that it will not detract from it’s range. If you read the whole interview further he also mentions that the...

Meteor has the best example of solid fuelled ramjet engine. These type of ramjets are also called “ducted” or “air-augmented”. By introducing extra air in to the combustion chamber a richer fuel/air mix is obtained to improve after burning and more controlled thrust. A liquid based ramjet with...

I think the window of opportunity is always there. As long as there is a cheaper production base for their second tier technologies, they will form partnerships. Their domestic production costs are somewhat prohibitive to be competitive . Of course there will be safeguards in place to protect...

Shame we couldn’t bring these guys in to our fold as our big brother partners in our quest for indigenisation of our jet engines program. It is however still not too late, especially with their new Turkish Chairman aspiring to make his mark in the company. Although final product may look...

I think you and most people would know in general, what I mean by “core energy” supply. For a combustion engine or a jet engine it is the petroleum based fuels. For battery powered cars it is the continuous supply of electrical energy generators or spare, light but high capacity, easy to change...

That is a good question about electric planes. But call me old fashioned or a pessimist. But in today’s world, I don’t trust all electric cars and I still won’t trust all electric planes when/if they become available. If The core energy supply is not onboard I am reluctant to invest in that...

ESSM is not hypersonic. It is a 4 Mach top speed missile. It probably hits its target at a lower supersonic speeds. It has dual propellant. In other words it has dual thrust propulsion. Achieves high speed first then sustains it until it acquires the target...

One point that needs a bit of clarification is the area of hypersonic missiles; Including our Bora and Tayfun, a large number of SRBMs have a trajectory that contains a good deal of hypersonic flight. Since these missiles are ballistic or quasi ballistic missiles, they have no powered flight...