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Correct! The chip production starts with “Silicon Wafers”. It is the crucial component as you rightfully point out. It is the Initial and major building block of a micro-chip. https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2021/semiconductor-manufacturing-process-steps

Gokdeniz and Phalanx aren’t the same. Gokdeniz has quite a bit more range. Gokdeniz has an effective range of 4 km. Phalanx has an effective range of 1.5km. You may hit a supersonic anti ship missile travelling at 2-2.5mach with phalanx. But the debris will still cause serious damage to the...

@Windchime you are correct. It should have been in https://defencehub.live/threads/turkish-missile-smart-munition-programs.334/page-176 thread. I have moved it already. Thanks for bringing it to my notice.

https://www.savunmasanayist.com/gezgin-fuzesinin-motoru-aratta-son-durum/ First long range cruise missile of Turkey, “Gezgin” ‘s propulsion unit, Arat is being developed by Kale. The project was started at the beginning of this year and the work on conceptual design has been completed. Although...

No! On the contrary, For a Turbofan engine; As bypass ratio (BPR) increases the overall efficiency of the engine increase which is a primary factor that yields lower “Thrust Specific Fuel Consumption” for the turbofan engine. Additionally, a high bypass ratio engine can produce a greater amount...

For those who would like to understand it in simpler form: In a turbofan (bypass) engine, the bypass ratio is a comparison between the mass flow rate of air drawn into the engine through the fan disk that goes around the engine core with the mass flow rate of the air that goes through the engine...

Some relevant and modern equivalent engines are: Motor Sich Ukrainian : AI-222 series engines (Soviet era tech). 5552lbf thrust dry and 9262lbf thrust with A/B. RR Turbomeca Adour : Although an old design. It has been updated and redeveloped many times to conform to modern specs. In fact the...

He is talking about “existing“ engines. These must be to do with ironing out small problems on PD Series Diesel engines for the UAVs. According to the latest posts on Aksungur, PD170 engines were being used on these now. So PD155 has been upgraded. And the new Aksungur and hopefully Anka UAVs...

https://urunler.mke.gov.tr/Urunler/250-lb.-MK-81-Genel-Maksat-Uçak-Bombası/38/464 https://urunler.mke.gov.tr/Urunler/1000-lb.-MK-83-Genel-Maksat-Uçak-Bombası/38/465 As you would see MK-81 and MK-83 are among their production list too.

Remember that these are just the guidance kits. The MK series dumb bombs are produced by MKE and we have probably many thousands of it in stock. MK81: 250lb MK82 : 500lb MK83 : 1000lb MK84 : 2000lb All of the above bombs are among the production list of MKE. Roketsan produces the kit that fits...

Actually you are not far out. One of our officials had mentioned that when we were first buying the JDAMs, even at over 90thousand dollars a piece they wouldn’t approve the quantities we wanted. So we manufactured HGK in it’s place for 27 thousand dollars. After our first test, US offered the...

Norwegian JSM Kongsberg missile (SOM-J equivalent) is 2.2 million dollars. Roketsan’s General Manager himself has disclosed the over 1 million dollar price of SOM missile. If you have a missile like HGK that can hit it’s target with the accuracy of 0.9metre, how many targets can you actually...

Do you know how much each one of these cost? US were selling them (as JDAM) to us for over 90thousand dollars each. We have manufactured them as HGK for around 27-28thousand dollars each. What you are suggesting makes 280 million dollars. That is more than a Milgem Corvette. For a bomb that has...

Congratulations to all Indian members! Happy Independence Day.

The first TB2’s during Euphrates Shield operations were very heavily electronically jammed and could not function properly. AnkaS UAVs with Satcom capabilities were sent in to take over from TB2s. It was only towards the end of the operation that the TB2s became resistant to EW jamming. Similar...

That is the logical assumption. Because you have satcom capability you can not omit LOS communication. So you would have both. That means extra weight that eats in to your maximum payload capacity. TB2S, as it was named, may use a different engine. But we have not seen these new satcom versions...

Mam-L missiles weigh 22 kg each. But they have missile release mechanisms that add extra weight. One mustn’t forget the weight of Electro Optical laser targeting machinery either. (CATS etc) What EW system they use is a secret. But that too should add a good deal of weight. However Aselsan’s...

An interesting study on various currently in use Aesa radars and their respective targeting distances according to varying RCS values. For example the APG77 Aesa radar of F22-Raptor can target a plane with an RCS value of 0.0001m2 at a distance of 20km. Yet a Rafale RB-2 Aesa radar can only...

TB2 with satcom upgrade -on the left- looks different. Whatever they have done to the plane it can now accommodate 4 x Mam-L missiles rather than 2 x Mam-L and 2 x Mam-C. (probably at the expense of fuel and altitude)

Good explanation! Very informative! But for a quick answer to the question of “how do you know the number of modules” question; I would say , counting them is a good way. They can be counted in a similar way to how the modules on the other 4 pictures have been counted. Infact someone had found...