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Gökhan is an air to air missile with a ramjet engine. It is a high supersonic speed missile. Ramjets can’t go above 5 Mach as their fuel usage becomes prohibitively high after Mach 4.5. Ramjet has subsonic air speeds inside the engine. If you increase the flow of air inside the engine to...

Great news again! But I will truly believe it when I see it it happen. Unless they have a signed deal with RR, I can’t see this timeline materialising. Prof Aksit in hidden words gave the message. It is not easy to manufacture a turbofan. it takes a long time to carry out tests. Even an...

@Bogeyman , I would like to ask a simple question about the news of a possible embargo on F404 engines you brought up last night; We read in the news about the prototype engines having been delivered during the course of last few months. Were these news false...

Klimov Russian 423cm long 104cm in diameter 1055kg EJ200 UK 398cm long 73.5cm in diameter 988kg F404 US. 391cm long. 89cm in diameter 1035kg f404 being the least powerful one they will all fly the Hurjet. How much alteration the plane needs and how long time it...

We Should have gone with RR and had those engines produced under license in Turkey. This just shows that nothing should be purchased from USA from now on that is defence related. They can not be dependable.

That is the way of Eastern/Midle Eastern approach. We are classed as a developed country. (Yes n spite of our lowly GDP, we have a very strong industrial base and a literacy rate) We should be more proactive in our defence industry. We should be planning way ahead of any and all eventualities...

Anyone who knows about the intricacies of turbine engines, and having watched this interview, can easily say that making an engine that will propel TFX is not going to be a quick job. If we want squadrons of planes flying before the end of the decade, we need ready made engines and/or help build...

Aselsan MD Ahmet Akyol says that from a port in Mediterranean we are conducting successfully the duty of swarm exercises with 4 Albatros-s unmanned sea vessels. In the coming months it will be autonomous exercises with 8 swarm vessels.

EJ200 is 157inches long. Which means 398cm. The Motor Sich engine with afterburners of similar thrust level is the one they use in Hong-Du L15 jet. That is 314cm in length. There is a 78 cm length difference. There must be room to accommodate this extra length in the fuselage of KE. But then...

Romanians has given the light for 18 TB2s at a cost of 300million dollars.

Savunmasanayist has corrected it as 0.8-0.9 Mach speed. It was a Typo!

TEI has been closely working with GE on Blisk fan technology for years. The F110GE129EFE engine AKA F110GE132 is an engine that TEI is responsible for maintaining and servicing as well as producing parts for it. So it is only logical that the Blisk (Bladed Disc) technology is adapted for our...

A millimeter wave radar is essentially an Extremely High-Frequency synthetic aperture radar (which is typically used to ‘map’ a picture of the ground). Millimetric wave radars for helicopters, such as the AH-64D Longbow, are used for target tracking and engagement, especially for moving vehicles...

F4 Terminator 2020 planes that the TuAF has in it’s inventory were supposed to be retired nearly two years ago. There are only about 20 of them that are flying anyway In 111 squadron. Unless they spend a lot of money to upgrade them, there is not much chance of f4s carrying anything. Besides...

Just to add to above info; There are two ramjet projects at the moment being developed. First one is Tubitak-Sage ramjet for Gökhan a2a missile. This missile is going to have a liquid fuelled ramjet engine. But most likely that the liquid fuel will be a Gel-Based fuel. Thus enabling easy...

According to below Article there are 9 planes in the program. 6 of them belong to Meltem project and 3 are utility aircafts. quote In a written statement, the Presidency of Defense Industries also shared that following the delivery of the first Maritime Patrol Aircraft, 2 additional Maritime...

Bro, most important info is missing from this infographic you have shared. First plane is KE but the second one is Gripen-E It is a comparison of the two To tell you the truth I don’t understand the significance of the comparison at all. Gripen-E s a manned 4++ generation full fledged fighter...

Engine cuts off well before missile starts it’s dive. That is why it is also assumed to have a 90 degree dive as most missiles are much harder to intercept if attack angle is accute. Especially as the air drag start having an effect after 15000m, missile is almost at a perpendicular compared to...

Correct. Ballistic but still suppressed. In fact quasi ballistic missiles still have a somewhat a ballistic trajectory. To leave fuel for terminal stage it needs to apply a very short range. Not really economical. But at hypersonic terminal speed would almost guarantee a hit. (If only it would...

Correct. Pointed nose of all supersonic jets and missiles are the proof of that. But in spite of that, the general shapes in that list are still valid for using in calculations.