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No one is going to sell us stealthy engines for our stealth planes. So we have to make do with the next best engines we can get our hands on. These are F110s, in spite of the fact that they would compromise the plane’s stealth. One of the prerequisites of stealth planes is the capability of...

F110-GE129E That is the twin engined configuration of the F110 that are used in F15 planes.

I would say; Don’t underestimate the Turkish and BAE Systems engineers who have been designing this plane for all these years. Also the target to achieve is not the stealthiness of F35. But of F22. If they are building a plane the shape of what we have seen today, they are not going to make it...

I remember a few months ago, Dr Temel Kotil complaining that after F16 production run, Tusas did not keep the staff and the expertise of serial production in house and that these capabilities were allowed to disperse and lost. So setting up a serial production line will be a new challenge for...

It would be a bit like apples and pears comparison of planes. F35 of today is the most advanced plane to date as it is. But it is haunted with so many faults and shortcomings that it is detracting from it’s excellence. Apart from the basic negatives of F35 we all know about, in terms of...

This is a huge aircraft. No wonder they are aiming for a couple of 35000lbf class engines! Without engines, those engine housings look even bigger than they really are. We know that around 120cm diameter engines are going in those holes. There is still a lot of work to be done. No complacency...

BUFFER ZONE! An area in a conflict zone between two opposing sides that can consist of sided or neutral entities.

That intrigued me as well. By the time this design is actually built, even Siper should be available. So the choice of Hisar-O is a bit different to what I would have expected. (Unless they are using Hisar-O name as a common name for O and RF versions.)

ADKG , Turkish OPVs Hisar Class ships being built by ASFAT are going to have Hisar -O air defence missiles. These are derived from Ada Class corvettes. Due to modular construction of the ship all sensors and weapons that are meant for these ships will be easily added if and when the need arise...

KE will be against aircrafts what TB2 became for tanks and armoured fighting vehicles. It will be their biggest nightmare. It is a shame that it only has a small engine at the moment. 6000lbf thrust engine, even without AB, will make this drone very potent, agile and manoeuvrable. If it is...

Akdoğan is an air to air missile developed by Tubitak-Sage with their own resources that will be able to hit UAV’s and be launched from lighter platforms like UAVs and Hurjet. Due to it’s lighter weight it will be easier to be carried in multiple numbers by these platforms. Also being...

All Hisar and Siper missiles are “hit-to-kill” missiles. They also have TVC capabilities. (See attached link) They all have dual pulse motors. https://www.defenceturkey.com/en/content/hisar-rf-sgtm-firing-test-and-the-differences-between-the-siper-b1-missile-4986

Plus, if we can get back in to the joint development and production program like we were supposed to, just think of all the know how we will have access to. In addition we will learn how to counteract this missile. (As the new ships Greece is buying will have this missile on board) When we...

Discussing how far a missile will go is irrelevant. This is like discussing how far a rifle bullet will go. A 7.62mm bullet may go as far as 5 or 6 km before it falls on the ground. But no one ever discusses it. The important number is it’s effective range, in which it can kill an enemy. This...

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Let us learn what Dual Pulse and Dual Thrust are first: Dual Pulse : Engine uses half of fuel at launch and until it reaches coasting speed. Then at terminal phase it uses second part of fuel to give itself more kinetic energy so as to not give any chance for target to evade. Dual Thrust : Fuel...

@Seoraksan probably thinks 300 BAE Systems engineers and 5000+ TAI engineers and Akaer design bureau don’t know much about airframe design and engine thrust levels. Also may be he thinks they dont know what they are talking about, when the three US educated aircraft engine and aerospace...

First of all one has to define supercruise. Supercruise for a jet fighter is being able to travel at over the speed of sound for a sustained amount of time without using afterburners. But US defines it as minimum at 1.5 times the speed of sound irrespective of altitude. In tests f22 has done...

I agree with your belief. Although it is easier to design a liquid fuelled ramjet, we probably designed this missile to have a liquid fuel ramjet engine on purpose to achieve better control of fuel flow and achieve longer range at cruise speeds. When a ramjet like Meteor with solid fuel uses...

Beauty of GaN T/R modules is the fact that they are more efficient. They don’t need to have large power supplies. Also remember that Aesa radar technology is ever evolving and becoming cheaper and more compact. US‘s Raytheon has already developed an Aesa radar with GaN modules that is as...