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Rafale is a good twin engined “jack-of-all-trades” type of plane. It’s airframe suits carrier operations when navalised. But the small 838 module GaAs Aesa radar it has is way behind new GaAs/GaN Aesa Hybrid Aesa Radar Eurofighter has. It has twice the effective detection range of Rafale’s...

What makes HIMARS so deadly is : 1. It’s manoeuvring capability to evade AD systems whilst in flight 2. Pin point accuracy HIMARS missiles vary in size and range. The long range ones are ATACMS missiles with 610mm diameter have a range of 300km. Only one missile is carried per vehicle. But main...

We need to be optimistic and believe in it to succeed. The real test is Hurjet. It was exactly 5 years ago in 2017 when the program was initiated. If what we have been told comes to fruition, in 5.5 years from it’s start date, this supersonic plane will have flown. Those planes you are...

Yes we will need those planes. Our top brass -political and military - think we will need it. That is why they have asked USA for the V70 planes. To set up an assembly line may take long. But like we have done with T-129, (EDH : Erken Duhul Helikopteri) a squadron or so can be quickly produced...

Good and valid comments and questions. But now is the time to find out how sincere Swedes are about being our allies. We need to ask them to give us a rock solid contract that covers all those points plus at a good price. That will also show USA’s hands; If they will block production of F414...

Even if we modernise all our F16’s to Ozgur status with Aesa radar, there will be a shortfall of plane numbers. Remember we bought 240 F16 planes in total to start with. Then at that time we had 54 Phantom Terminators with 2.5 Mach speed and 18000m flight ceiling. That meant we had 294 fighter...

For a given set initial velocity above graph can be used as a coarse guidance as it gives approximate distances at different launch angles. A missile that can reach 325km altitude near vertical(87.5 degrees), will travel 80 km distance. For the same initial velocity at 40 degrees launch it will...

Sorry if I sounded personal. But my comment was general. I was blowing off steam with a half hearted pun. Acronyms make writing easier when mentioning long winded series of words. But not everyone knows what each acronym means. As we are writing in a defence forum, one would be expected to know...

I hate these acronyms. “Heavy Goods Vehicle”? They mean so many different things. Hypervelocity Glide Vehicle Avangarde, said to be tested successfully by the Russians when they showed it to US officials and supposedly being in it’s serial production state was being delivered to units by the...

They need to sort out his nomenclature palaver. We have two “Simsek” one is a space vehicle the other is a target drone. There is also a third one which is the second kamikaze version of the target drone. We have two Kargi/Kargu . They are both loitering munitions. First one is similar to Harop...

@Nilgiri has given a very good and fairly detailed explanation to your questions. Thank you @Nilgiri for such an informative explanation. All I could say is that mathematically for a given thrust and engine the Thrust Specific Fuel Consumption is like a mathematical constant; whether it be in...

Usual mistake some people make is taking the fan diameter as the main measurement. Fan diameter of AI25 class engines are around 64cm. They don’t take in to account the parts that protrude at the bottom and around the main engine block. With all that paraphernalia you end up with a 880mm width...

Only time they mentioned TEI if I remember, was when they were embargoed heavily by the Canadians and Rotax engine supply ceased. Then they tested PD-170 and were very impressed with it’s power delivery. Regarding the TF6000 and it’s Ukrainian counterpart ; On paper there is no comparison...

You are right. That is the plan. Dr Aksit had stated that they were discussing with GE about TEI producing these under license. But nothing has been finalised yet. In fact there was some talk about the under license production of first dozen or so TFX’s prototype engines of F110GE129E.

For our defence industry to function properly, the one most important and vitally essential equipment that is in the heart of all our defence industry vehicles, is their engine. Unhindered supply of this during peace and war times is non-negotiable. If you don’t have it, then you are in a...

Have they got Germany's consent? Otherwise they will either block it or concede to sell them provided they are not used against Greece or in Northern Syria. They blocked 48 typhoon sale of UK to Saudi Arabia on the basis of Kaşıkci murder. Another method of sale needs to be found. RR producing...

The trick is to produce systems that are good enough to go through missile's defences. GaN based Aesa radars can fry and jam systems of any object emitting RF.

Hurjet CAS version can also be identified as Light attack aircraft. So as well as being a Close Air Support craft it will have capability to perform light attack duties. This version will have a Leonardo built Aesa radar on board and will have access to the use of all Turkish built weapons and...

There is an English saying; How long is a piece of string? it indicates that something cannot be given a finite measurement. Originally, the BMC had won the 250 tank order with a bid of 3.5 billion Euros. If that is still valid or not; But that then meant 14 million Euros per tank. But we didn’t...

https://www.savunmasanayist.com/tusasa-412-adet-hurjet-siparisi/ 4 definite and 12 optional initial order for Hurjet has been received by Tusas. Currently 2 prototypes that will fly are being built. One of these will be for a trainer aircraft , the other in CAS format.