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Turkey’s latest purchases of these M113s were at 633000 dollars a piece. US has sold the latest versions to Malaysia at a unit price of nearly 1.5 million dollars. To dump 4.2 billion dollars worth of equipment would be insane. New locally produced AFV’s will cost may be just under a million...

With the right engine/thrust level and the ski-lift it is possible for MIUS to take off from TCG Anadolu. MIUS is almost like a delta wing craft. Very wide body. It will have a lot of lift. I don’t care who Selcuk Bayraktar is on personal level. But this guy is an MIT graduate who knows about...

To add to my above post I would like to say; You can not really decide by specs given on paper that one tank is better than the other. With today’s war arena it is very likely that no two opposing tanks will be fighting each other face to face, like in WW2. So what is the point about one tank...

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I agree with you. I would have liked to have seen TEI building a turbofan. But this engine, as I understand it, was built to see how it would work. They had, up until then, only built a 90lbf turbojet engine for a target drone. They wanted to build a 300lbf engine. Hence TJ-300. Also for an...

I think you mean TJ-300 ! Prof Aksit had earlier mentioned that they wanted to produce this engine to see if they could produce an axial flow turbo jet that would pave the way to larger ones. And it was a success.

Russian armour beat superior German ones in WW2. But that was another century. Since then they have not been very successfully against US, UK and Israeli armour. On paper specifications, are not a good sign of superiority. It is how you use the tanks and what you use against them that matters...

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I don’t know of actual test. But both Israeli and Indian sites have mentioned that it is possible to successfully target Brahmos with Barak8. Apparently, Barak-8 had been developed so that it could shoot down Yakhont, which is the Russian variant of Brahmos. When Israel faced a threat from...

Speed of an AD missile is not a big issue in hitting it’s target. If the search radar has the range and the seeker head is good and doing it’s job properly, it should be able to target and hit even supersonic missiles. Barak8 can hit Brahmos missile. It is supposed to have stopped the famous...

Good for money laundering and untraceable cash transactions. Clears the way to widespread fraud at all levels too!! It needs very strict third party control mechanisms in place before it is usable. It needs to be extra safe!

Good question! I too would like to know 100%, the true range of these missiles. Mr I Demir said that Hisar A & O are now upgraded to A+ & O+. There is also a RF version with extended altitude and range. A lot of range figures are flying up in the air. But the truth is that the range figure of...

According to this. It’s range was 70km. It was extended to 100km. But doesn’t say how. Quote: The Barak 8 is a 275 kg missile with a 225 mm diameter (the booster is 540 mm wide), a fin span of 940 mm, and a length of 4.5 m. It is propelled by a two-stage smokeless pulsed rocket motor with a...

Yes. Range being a bit conservative. Barak 8 is a dual stage missile; It has a big booster. Then the dual pulse motor. I think the actual flight speed is a bit lower too. http://www.military-today.com/missiles/barak_8.htm

Just check, how big supersonic wind tunnels are. Look at the ones that NASA is using. Biggest one is the Abe Silverstein wind tunnel. That is 10 ft x 10 ft. Glenn Research centre uses a 8 x 6 ft supersonic wind tunnel. Aerolab Services offers supersonic wind tunnels of 1inch x 1inch and 12inch x...

Energy efficiency is definitely important. Tulomsas has produced 4 x 2200HP engines to power the largest ferry Turkey has. It is a 4000+ ton ferryboat carrying trains across Lake Van. Each engine uses about 400 litres of fuel per hour. There are 4 propellers and only a single engine can power...

Have you seen Turkish production lines? Yes, automation in almost all parts of the industry is valid. Albeit In different degrees. But it is there. Labour costs are not cheap in Turkey. Qualified production line workers may cost over 1000-1500 Euros per month to the employers. This could be...

Remind. Yes. But don’t get riled up!

That is just a wishful thinking post of a member. There will however, be an automated production line for TFX. Tusas has already built a new factory to produce TFX. TurAF will need 250-300 planes before 2040. Some of the close allies and local countries may want to purchase this plane. So...

Excuse me but you guys are talking and arguing about a news piece published 13.5 months ago! This thread is about Turkey and Egypt normalising relations with each other and it is relevant to current time. please stay on topic .