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Main participant of WW1 and the largest biggest army was of the British. They were also the winners. History is written by the winners. After the war, all Ottoman top brass and MP’s were taken to Malta and put on trial for war crimes including the so called “Armenian genocide”. British had...

Kale and P&W can not be party to this conflict. It is between MOD Turkey and LM. Kale is a subcontractor to P&W. It has no legal standing in this argument. Also how much do you think those parts are? Compared to what they owe us, it is less than peanuts , no matter how much they can hike up the...

Guess what it hits in this introductory video? A Pantsir!!! I wonder why they have chosen that?

Actually it is Volvo RM12 engine developed from F404 GE engine. GEf404 has a a dry thrust of 11000lbf. (17700lbf WAB) Volvo RM12 has a dry thrust of 12000lbf. (18100lbf WAB) It is nearly 10% more powerful. In Hurjet’s site the engine power is given as 19200 lbf. Yet the most powerful F404 is...

Actually if we had not alienated RR few years ago with TR Motor/Qatar fiasco , we could have asked RR to produce it. Or at least something similar to it! But the rate our engine projects are developing at the moment, I can’t see us, but going in to some sort of licensed production scheme for...

F35’s engine is f135 produced by P&W. GE and RR produced f136 for the same plane . But was not chosen. P&W’s partner in Turkey is Kale.

Turkey’s defence ministry’s counterpart here is Lockheed Martin. They will be asked to pay up for the undelivered planes and the monies they have received. Also for non-fulfilling a contract they are liable for compensating us. That would however occur in a perfect world. But still as a...

Penguin missile is a 35km to 55km range solid rocket fuelled missile. But it is subsonic. As with all solid fuelled missiles there is a shelf life. TJ-300 will enable us to overcome that problem and will give us over 100km range. No brainer!

Without engine like f414 that bird will never be a light attack or CAS plane. F404 is good for shows and training. But not for a fighter jet. To increase the payload to that level you need a powerful engine and a structurally matching plane. As A C-Block Hurjet, they may have a very different...

Our TFX is a big bird. It is almost as big as an f22. If you watch the video below, around 39.00 mins onward , you will see that the small mock-up Temel Kotil is holding, has plenty of space under it’s belly. It is quite wide too. There is enough space for smart bombs and a2a missiles. He...

You are correct ! It is an old article . But this interview is new! In fact he gives dates about the TFX as well! Out of hangar in 2023. First flight 2025. Delivery in 2028.

https://www.c4defence.com/en/tfx-will-be-tested-with-f110-engine/ Tusas CEO Temel Kotil, has said that TFX will be tested with F110 engines. He has also insinuated that by the end of this year body of TFX will start to form shape , in the interview.

Is that why US navy and US airforce marine core use F18 Hornets, as well as Canadian Airforce , Finnish airforce, Swiss Airforce, Spanish airforce and Australian airforce, all of whom use f18’s in their Air Force ? With regards to Hal Tejas; If you check further, you will find that it is because...

Having read and heard so much about this I have to say it is too good to be true. The Navy was interested as well. But after a first trial roll out I read that the project was put on a back burner by Navy. Is it still alive?

Do these engines actually exist in real life or are they just projects in design format?

https://www.defenceturk.net/tubitak-sage-hava-odakli-fuzelerde-ekosistem-olusturuyor Tubitak-Sage is working on a family of air to air and ground to air missiles. Also according to Mr Gurcan Okumus, Sage Director, a Ramjet powered a2a missile is not too far away. A local Nasams and an ESSM-er...

According to veteran F16 pilots, especially block 30 and 40 planes with f110GE engines can super cruise in mid to high altitude in clean set up quite easily. That is if you take super cruise as speed of 1+ Mach without afterburners. US defence department has changed the definition of “super...

@boracetkin ’s wording is slightly wrong. But I understand what he means. A ball thrown out of a car travelling at 100m/second , with a speed of 100m/sec “relative to the car” , will have a cumulative speed of 200m/sec at zero time. However it will decelerate quicker than the ball released at...

For Turkish readers a simplified informative essay on air to air missiles. https://www.savunmasanayist.com/havadan-havaya-fuze-ve-turkiye/

It is not nice to read that “we are manufacturing under license”. But you have to start somewhere! BAE are partners at the moment. So the idea should be, to get as much as possible while you can. Also these sort of “under license” manufacturing processes keeps one foot in with the top technology...