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What in your opinion, can Antonov contribute towards TFX? I am happy that we have involved Ukrainians in our projects. But I would like this to be on a temporary basis, unless it is a partnership involvement.

“Junk” in dictionary means: “anything that is regarded as worthless, meaningless” At peace times this sort of defensive weapons are used as deterrents. Since the Administration doesn’t have the balls to move it out of it’s hangars and activate it as they should be, it is useless. So in my eyes...

Administration do not have the political power to do so. But the S400 system is the property of Turkish Armed Forces now. In the event of war, if they see fit and vital, they will use it at any time and deploy it in any place they deem necessary. But to be honest with you; Turkey’s own AD...

Bora is quoted to have 30-50 m CEP. Yes! But….. I have seen two videos of Bora testing; 0.5 m and 1m away from bullseye hits. One can argue that, this may not be representative of “general accuracy” of targeting for Bora. But it is said that Bora 2 (presence of which is mentioned but not...

https://www.defenceturk.net/trg-300-blok-iii-fuzesi-calismalarinda-sona-gelindi TRG-300 now coming in Block 3 version. Better sensitivity and explosives.

If you work with land forces like “Free Syrian Army” your hands are tied.

All correct assumptions. But valid for IAF mostly. For TurAF, cheap 122mm and 230mm artillery rockets fired from Akinci or Aksungur UAVs at 30-35000ft will be like stand-off missiles. Also both Akinci and Aksungur with their useful loads of 1350kg and 750kg respectively, can carry multiple of...

Exactly. Also as it is an unknown entity, your enemy won’t know how to defend against it. Look what a joke, Harop and TB2 made, out of Russian air defence systems in Azerbaijan.

@Jacop & @500 , I agree with your S400 statements. Purchasing them was unnecessary and political at the time. Even though they are very potent defence systems, they should never have been bought. Our own layered air defence structure we are building at the moment, is going to be much more...

Correct! Scalp as produced, is not capable of hitting moving targets like ships in the sea. But France’s Scalp inventory is going through a mid life upgrade. It includes a two-way data link for in-flight retargeting and a different seeker. (With Dual Mode Active IR and Imaging IR Seeker). This...

It would be wiser to use anti-ship missiles against ships. But the Storm shadow is a different animal. French don’t use it as an anti ship missile. It is supposed to be stealthy. Expected to be not easily registered by radars. It’s high-high-low flight gives it 300NM (550km) range. (Due to...

By the time this ship (presumably TCG TRAKYA) is operational, few of the TF2000 air defence destroyers, all 6 Reis Class Subs and 4 I-Class frigates and few squadrons of TFX in 4++ generation mode, will be in use. So it will have a very capable defensive posture. Besides this is not a ship to...

Exactly, GE realised that Turkey is going to use Zorya gas turbines, if push comes to shove. They don’t want to lose a customer like Turkey. Especially now we have a lot of say in naval platforms and supplying a number of countries with it. Now Ukraine knows that they can’t be too comfortable...

It is a well known fact that apart form the propeller cavitation noise, the engine noise is one of the main sources of noise generated by warships. In the world of stealthy and silent ships, it is imperative that we have to design and produce our naval vessels so that we have as quiet a ship as...

In terms of quiet running and performance nothing come close to GE marine gas-turbines. RR may be a good choice but their turbines are expensive. This deal will make it cheaper for us to produce these and will eliminate any difficulties we may have in acquiring them in the future. This is a...

Spot on! You’ve hit the nail on the head! +1

We can argue here about similarities forever. To you it is similar to f16 project. To me it is more akin to our t129 project. So let us agree to disagree.

You like contradicting everybody. You need to work on that. Also please read a bit carefully the fine nuances in the lines, before blurting out! Turkish F16 project, “when started“, was an “assembly-line” project. The whole F16 plane was US designed, built, used and sold to many countries. JF17...

The JF-17 fighter is basically a Chinese plane. Designed and produced with Pakistan. 58% of the JF-17 airframe, including its front fuselage, wings, and vertical stablizer, is produced in Pakistan. But the rest comes from China. Engine is Russian Klimov RD93. Aesa radar too is Chinese. The whole...

Expected to enter service in second half of 2020s. In other words, after 2025.