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This one is worth checking out! Unless it was shared here before. It is TB2 against a Russian Ml-8 helicopter. If true that is worth bragging about. Probably a Cirit or MAM-C may have done the damage.

Exactly! The current MIUS project is not and can not be a replacement of a fully fledged manned fighter jet. It would be a complementary side kick at best. It would and should double or even triple an F16’s effectiveness. But on it’s own it can never replace it. On it’s own it would still be a...

Science fiction becoming reality! A manned/unmanned plane that can reach anywhere on earth within an hour. A turbojet engine will help the plane take off and reach Mach 3 speeds. Then the ramjet takes over and allows the plane to achieve close to mach6 speeds (low hypersonic) for a few minutes...

As far as I know, all avionic upgrades have been completed. It is waiting for the indigenous Aesa radar, which should be ready for trials sometime this year. One plane has been furnished with all the upgrades -apart from Aesa radar- and has flown as a prototype. Although it will be the block 30...

12 x M270A1mlrs purchased from US uses the M26 rockets. Tubitak Sage reverse engineered these and made Pars-Sage-227F rockets. So the ammunition problems were sorted. But with their somewhat limited range (32km) and being an older tech the local TRG122 and TRG 230 ; later with TRLG laser...

I know of the X15 plane achieving over 2km/sec speed at the edge of space. Launched from a B52 bomber and flown by pilots designated as astronauts, the year I was born. During the record Mach 6.93 flight, the aircraft received thermal structural damage and the covering was severely pitted and...

I thought rotating detonation engine was the culmination of all the developments made after the pulse detonation engine. Where as there are certain shortcomings of a pulse detonation engine, there are various advantages with a rotating detonation engine. Apparently the beauty of the rotating...

A manned fighter plane that can achieve hypersonic speeds is a little far fetched with today’s known current technology. Even an unmanned one will be subjected to such stresses and air friction levels that only above a very high altitude can it be considered. Hypersonic is 5+ Mach sustained...

This plane is planned so that first examples will be available after 2035. But taking a previously UK led EF2000 program as example ; The EF2000 idea started in 1971. First consortium formed in 1983 and program launched. First flight in 1994. First orders placed in 1998. It was in 2008 that...

An engine operates most efficiently when the exit velocity closely matches the speed of the airframe. Hence all current engines are optimised and only operate at moderate efficiency. Technically, adding a new flow duct that operates as and when the bypass ratio needs to be altered to give the...

If you are aiming for a 2500km range cruise missile, a turbofan engine is the logical choice. But if your missile is going to travel around 800-1200km, then a turbojet will also suffice. These engines are expendable engines. So they need to be cheap. Turbojets are a lot cheaper than turbofans...

Tfx engine has to be a turbofan. Not turbojet. It should ideally be a variable by-pass turbofan. But that will take some time yet. May be in much later blocks. Turbojets are inefficient at lower altitudes. But they perform more efficiently at very high altitudes. For planes like Concorde and...

Good question! let me reply with another question; Why would you obtain a patent of TF6000 engine if you weren’t going to produce one?

Prof Aksit’s statement, makes me think that, presumably, having succeeded in making a TF6000 turbofan, (I am guessing) they have more confidence in making a 35000lbf thrust class turbofan engine. He doesn’t say he is going to make it. He says he is capable of making it. In 2018 he said within...

Interesting analysis of European naval surface combatants design programs for 2023 to 2029;

I have no doubt about Tusas making the plane to the specs given without a problem. Especially with the twin F110 engines as a 4++ generation fighter. But when it comes to the 35000lbf class engines that TR Motor was designing, it seemingly has a somewhat larger diameter than the aircraft can...

@merzifonlu has made a very important point regarding what Prof Aksit was talking about until he was rudely and stupidly interrupted by the interviewer. Yes, he says that they can produce an indigenous 35000lbf thrust class turbofan engine. But the engine that was designed to give this amount...

English explanation please.

An article written some 6 years ago about the Koral development is making some interesting claims. According to this article, Turkey, in around 2012-13 bought a S300 system from Belarus (sans missiles) and investigated the innards of the system and came up with the Koral to counteract the S300...

One thing that eludes some, about USA is that; in spite of their technological superiority and their economical prowess, they are governed by profit and loss. Those companies are giant private companies with a lot of pull in Congress and state departments. They have to present a healthy bottom...