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A cruise missile like jasm or SOM have stealth structural geometry. Radars can not lock on to them easily. Also they can fly low and hug terrain. These cheap ones are not quire the same. They have to fly high and glide at terminal stage.

A 2000lb powered jdam is as big if not bigger than a JASM cruise missile. ( jdam without engine is 4m long. jASM is 4.5m long.) look at the size and length of the powered jdam’s engine compartment. If a radar can detect a JASM cruise missile it will definitely detect a powered Jdam too...

At subsonic speeds coming from 1000km away it would take 50 minutes also at high altitude, the speed advantage would be nullified I am afraid.

Jet engine itself does not make it more detectable to radars. But due to its higher speeds, it would make the “missile” more visible to radars, and it would be seen as a cruise missile rather than a slow gliding bomb. I should have made it clearer. Then of course as you pointed out it would be...

Remember also that only 110 million of that 140 million are Russians. There are a lot of BulgarTurks, Tatars, Yakuts, Daghestanis etc etc.. within Russian federation. Russian population receding big time. But the Turkic population is multiplying exponentially.

How about if supported with a turbofan engine, 1000-2000 km range? It won’t be stealth. In fact it will be more detectable by radars due to its jet engine. But the standard jdam is 25000 dollars. Winged version is a little more expensive at around 45000 dollars. Probably Engined version will be...

I would take whatever that guy says with a pinch of salt. He kept saying “we were partners in F35 production and the deliveries are going on as planned“. Then we got kicked out of the F35 program. Not even worth mentioning!

Correct! There is great amount of work to be done. Due to extreme speed, mechanical vibration and heat, the related electronics will be subjected to conditions never before experienced by our technicians. But just think of a Bora missile; acceleration to hypersonic speeds. Then re-entry in to...

Just to add to ramjet scramjet conversation; A ramjet engine is actually a very simple engine compared to a turbojet engine. It has no compressor blades and no turbines. But in order to create compressed combustion, the engine has to be at at supersonic speeds so that the air is pushed and...

Not if you are building a modern super agile jet fighter. The more aerodynamically unstable an aircraft is the more highly maneuverable it is. So you introduce unstable elements to your design parameters to make it agile. Then try to correct the instability with computers. That is why you need...

I am sure it can lock on multiple targets. It will have air to air and air to surface missiles like HGK-ER and SOM-J. Also will be doing all this in a web based communication medium. SAR/GMTI radar Milsar by Meteksan will also be a big asset for this UAV.

No! It means it has a lot more separate systems onboard that need computer control. Aesa radar, flight control system, satellite communications, ELINT/SIGINT System, ESM Pod, Collision Avoidance System, weapons control, electronic warfare pod are just some of them.

Ai35 is actually ai305 and is still in drawing board by inchenko progress Rather than trying to develop a new engine with a company that has not done any development since Soviet era I would go with a production line unit that has been proven and is being used.

Pakistan’s 700km range Babur missile is probably using Motor-Sich MS400 turbofan engine. With it’s 3.92KN thrust and 315mm diameter, it is actually ideal for the Gezgin missile too. With all the new cooperation mood we are in with Ukraine , we may have started using this engine for our Gezgin.

No! All hisar missiles are dual pulse missiles. Be it, A, A+, O, O+ . They are of different sizes. Longer ones have longer ranges. Bigger fuel tanks make it reach further. The whole idea is to provide extra thrust at terminal phase. So you MUST have a dual pulse engine to do that. Of course if...

There is no second stage in these motors. Only one stage and one motor. It has, however 2 fuel tanks. It uses it’s first fuel tank to get close. Then it starts to lose speed. This is when it opens up second fuel tank and re-ignites. This is why you see a fireball. It reaches maximum speed...

Exactly! Just clarify a bit; Dual Pulse does not mean two stage! It means it has 2 fuel tanks. It uses it’s first fuel tank to get close to the target. As it starts losing speed it opens up second tank and re-ignites. Hence the fireball you see before impact. It reaches it’s top speed, catches...

According to a Russian source Turkey actually tested Gezgin Cruise missile while testing the S400 system in Sinop earlier this year. The missile was launched from a submarine according to the source. if this news is correct Turkish navy may have a very big advantage in the eastern Med. provided...

I would also like to see ESSM Blk2 equivalent, G40 Blk2 from Roketsan as they are part of the consortium developing it.

Russians tend to add to their missiles’ speed, range and altitude figures as they want to sell their missile systems. Thus they exaggerate a bit. They were giving 400km range for S400 even though the missile with that range was not even ready. Turkish Army will never give you the exact...