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They have done the hard work at a very short time. It doesn’t take long to reach to the final point. I agree with @TheInsider about the Vulcano and Dart ammo. Especially Vulcano is a game changer. But high speed fire rate will increase kill rate drastically if you are not using smart ammo. It...

Well, they are the project owners. They are the ones to decide what has to be done to achieve a first class gun. Aselsan is the fire control system developer. We know that. And they already have a very good system that is operational on the Oto Melara guns. Problem is with the speed of the gun...

Last one is , ease of inspection of rivets. This is what I found with google search: Pros Rivets are cheap Riveting can be done regardless of the position/location. (vertical, etc.) Very high shear strength and resistance from fatigue Removing a rivet causes less damage than a welded joint...

I don’t see the point of this gun as it is, when our new ships have a much better version of it, already on them. Our companies like Aselsan and Roketsan have always produced an equipment that is at least as good if not better than the equivalent of current foreign alternative. Atmaca, Bora...

Aluminium bodies? Al not heat friendly. rivets give stronger joints

You are correct! External storage is for sure. But internally no! https://www.overtdefense.com/2019/08/16/us-turkish-cruise-missile-som-j-may-be-a-victim-of-f-35-no-sale-fallout/

https://www.dailysabah.com/defense/2019/08/05/initially-intended-for-f-35s-turkeys-som-j-missiles-to-be-used-with-national-combat-jet-uavs https://www.savunmasanayi.org/som-j-fuzesi-mmu-ve-akinci-ihayi-bekliyor/ som j will be used in TFX

SOM-J was specially produced as a deep strike missile that can hit moving sea targets as well. It most definitely will be integrated in to TFX.

Actually, the Russian turbine blade manufacturing is way behind it’s western counterparts. They still use super alloys in the manufacture of their engine blades. Pls see below. As can be seen, the RD33 uses super alloys in the blades. Their life span is much shorter and need maintenance more...

It all depends on what you expect from your design, what your priorities are. If you look at the main disadvantages of a fenestron: Greater weight, therefore greater power requirement and more air resistance brought by the enclosed structure Higher cost to construct. More power is needed during...

Initial T929 engines are going to be Ukrainian MotorSich made. 14 engines have been ordered. Which means at least 6 prototypes. But as the number is limited to 14 engines, we must be quite confident about the emergence of TS3000 turbo shafts in time for serial production...

With your permission, Let us translate as not everyone is fluent in Tukish language here! Albania is actually adding a further 8million Euros to its 35 million Euro allocated budget for the purchase of 6 TB2’s with ground control centres.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/turkey-says-it-exported-armed-uavs-to-saudi-arabia Just came across this news! Apparently we have sold 3 armed UAV’s to Saudi Arabia. Although it is not stated which one, it has to be either TB2 or Anka. Unless it is the armed Vestel Karayel. But...

Türksat 5A was launched in to space in January this year. Now it is being commissioned in to service. Tests have been carried out on the Türksat 5A, which reached geosynchronous orbit in space as of May 4, Karaismailoğlu said, adding that orbital tests began on May 5 and were "successfully...

Exactly! The rocket engines of these missiles only work for few seconds to bring them to their top speeds. Then they travel with their kinetic energy. As they are moving without thrust they are being effected by gravity. So can be deemed to have a “ballistic” trajectory. But a throttle...

This is, if I am not mistaken, Bozdogan missile. Both Bozdogan and Gokdogan have solid fuel rocket engines. They burn all the fuel they have to bring the missiles to their 4 Mach top speed. Then at terminal stage they have no new thrust. Each time they have to make a sharp course correction...

There are some discrepancies in this write up. We know and it is a fact that a Ramjet engine is most efficient at speeds around 3 Mach. So it has to cruise at that speed. As it approaches 6 Mach it starts developing shock waves inside the compression chamber, decreasing thrust and increasing...

Although no news is coming through at the moment, as per @Cabatli_53 mentioned over two years ago in Pakistan Defence Forum, there is a work being done on Bora2 missile. This work should let us see the emergence of a 500+km range new Bora with a seeker head that can hit moving sea targets. As...

First of all, speed is important in a Ramjet. For the ramjet to operate or kick in, there has to be a good amount of air coming in to the compression chamber. To achieve this the missile has to reach high subsonic or low supersonic speeds depending on combustion chamber design parameters...

MR Okumuş of Tubitak started it. He mentioned liquid fuelled ramjet trials. Never mentioned solid fuelled ramjet in his interviews. So everyone is speculating that this Gökhan could be liquid fuelled.