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Not quite! On the surface it may look like government created jobs. But those jobs did not produce something that added to national income. You produced that truck with funds taken from taxpayers’ money and handed it out to few jobless. In return you got nothing. It did not generate any revenues...

I am afraid you are missing a very important point. Let me explain again. - If you buy a truck from abroad for military, that truck stays inert in a warehouse waiting to be used in case of war. But you have used foreign currency reserves to buy it. - If you produce in house a truck for your...

Latest info was that it passed all system qualification tests and being readied to be delivered to the armed forces. It brings CEP values under 50m for maximum specified ranges. The MDK system is immune to EW and electronic deception. @Kartal1...

Bro, then you have not looked at the right places. It is readily available as I have found within few minutes. Hürjet’s MTOW was never given. As it is essentially a trainer that resembles KAI-T50 it is logical to assume to be similar to that plane’s. But if we are going to tweak this jet and...

Yes! There ls that too. If UK and our “diplomats” can get Germany to give the go ahead for the sale within this year, then it would be a viable purchase. Otherwise, if it is dragged out too long, as you have rightly pointed out, it is not going to make much of a difference.

Let us think that KAAN of today is similar in engine power to F15EX. F15EX in combat configuration at cruising altitude burns around 1800 Gallons of fuel. An F16, in same configuration will use around 700gallons of fuel. But if you start using afterburners and perform difficult manoeuvres, then...

These calculations are old if you think July 2019 is too old! That is the time we were kicked out from F35 program. Until we were kicked out, we were in the process of ordering F35 planes. We had not changed our commitment quantities of 100 planes until that date. In fact we were contemplating...

Prior to our expulsion from F35 program, the idea was to have around 100 F35s in place of F4s, and the TFX were to replace the 240 or so aging F16 jets. Thus giving Turkish armed forces over 350 combatant jets. Irrespective of the timescales given, the total combatant count for the Turkish...

To add to @boredaf ’s post; it has to be remembered that these are 5th generation planes. They are expensive to keep operational with a much lower operability percentage than 4th generation planes. If we look at hourly flight cost alone of these : A-10 Thunderbolt: $22,531/hour F-16 Fighting...

ECRS radar that Typhoon has, comes in three different versions: Ultimately, differing requirements and timelines led to Captor-E being subdivided into the ECRS Mk 0 (Kuwait and Qatar), Mk 1 (the definitive standard for Germany and Spain), and Mk 2 for the United Kingdom. Each of these radars...

All military grade Marine gas turbines are derived from high bypass turbofan engines. This is due to the fact that in a high-bypass design, the ducted fan and nozzle produce most of the thrust. A turbofan engine is actually related to a turboprop in principle because they both transfer some of...

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C Can anybody with 100% certainty confirm that Iran doesn't already have nuclear capability?

There are certain advantages of having a radial flow turboshaft. - mechanically simple and compact - low cost - low maintenance - less mechanical and thermal stress - relatively higher pressure per stage for lower flow rates are some of them. But they have limitations. One of the most...

I like your optimism. - TS3000 has been put on the back burner. Not enough workforce and finances. It is the TF35K that has priority at the moment. - TS1400 is a radial airflow turboshaft. They are best with single or maximum double stages. Currently it is more or less at its limit as far as...

Reading above info regarding Gokbey and TS1400, I understand that the EASA approved TS1400 being available for Gokbey is given as 2027. So all production/deliveries until 2027 will use LHTEC800 engine. Come to think about it; If 2028 is the end of licence agreement for T-129, I wonder if it...

Exactly! In terms of jet powered munitions, we have Kuzgun, Çakır, Atmaca, Kara Atmaca, SOM A-B-C and J, Kemankes and of course the infamous Gezgin to come yet. These subsonic cruise missiles use Kale KTJ series (ktj1750, ktj3200, ktj3700, Arat) and İdealab engines to power them. Some of them...

Unless you have a layered missile system, be it subsonic, supersonic or hypersonic, it is all academic when it comes to real life events. Last night we watched the Arrow system intercepting an exoatmospheric Iranian missile. That missile must have been travelling at high hypersonic speeds when...

I wasn’t trying to find a difference.