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Before you become confrontational, I suggest you check some figures! Mr Ethem Sancak has said it himself that the other competitor (KOC) gave a price of 7 billion Euros for 250 Altay tanks. As BMC their offer was for 4 billion Euros. But RTE shaved of a further 0.5 billion Euros. And the deal...

Temren missile has become a myth! Yes these were to be produced to replace the ageing Penguin anti ship missiles fired from S60 Seahawk helicopters. We have 24 Sea Hawks so this missile with a range of 35-50 km is important. First trials were with a L-Umtas missile adapted for seahawks. But...

Atmaca missile is expected to be around 1.2 millon dolars. But prices should come down with locally sourced englne - ktj3200 - . Also as more orders are placed cheaper prices can be attained. Harpoon Block 2 which is very similar in performance is close to 1.4 million dollars. ( Our Harpoons on...

Exactly! Even if it costs more, local production is the key!

USA makes Abrams tank. With today’s money it comes to around 9.8 million dollars each. We make Altay with “cheap Turkish work force” . It comes to over 16 million dollars each. There are economies of scale here in play. But also a lot of middle men creaming the top. SOM and Atmaca missiles cost...

Atak 2 helicopter will be heavier and more powerful than Apache helicopters. In 2015 India purchased 22 Apache’s for 2.1 billion dollars. Do we really need and can we really afford to pay over 100 million dollars for each of these helicopters? Two of them will make a Milgem Corvette. We have...

SSB president Ismail Demi has said something interesting to a newspaper; Quote: 2023 yılında hangardan çıkarıp bütün dünyaya nasıl bir uçak olacağını göstereceğiz. Ardından bir dizi test ve sonrasında uçuşu olacak. Uçağın tasarımı konusunda İngiliz BAE’den mühendislik desteği almak üzere...

The new versions of tb2 now have 4 x mam-L !

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.