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No! Absolutely no! These are aircrafts that will use air breathing ramjet/scramjet engine combinations. They need to take in oxygen from the atmosphere. Hypersonic means an aircraft travelling over 5 times the speed of sound. Hence 5 Mach + . A lot of ICBMs and satellite carrying rockets travel...

I appreciate your view about upgrading them. But if memory serves, there are programs among current users of tranche-1 to upgrade them to tranche-3 . How is that possible then? There appears to be for the UK upgrade programs on tranche-1; drop 1, drop 2, drop 3 and a drop 4 upgrade packages...

UK has in it’s inventory, 52 tranche-1 typhoons. 35 of these are single seat and 17 are twin seat planes. They will be gradually brought out of commission until 2025. As they are, they are of no use to us. They need to be upgraded to tranche-3 status at least. Preferably to tranche-4 status with...

It is an indigenous product. here is some info on it: https://www.aselsan.com.tr/KORHAN_35_mm_Weapon_System_7863.pdf

How much of our “advanced” weapons we would be allowed to integrate on to the newly purchased F16-V70s, is the question one need to ask. Remember that these planes are going to have advanced US built Aesa radars and US built avionics. Even the upgrade kits may cause problems. I hope we don’t end...

Actually Chaffe will be incorporated. But I doubt if the tips of the plane can handle the weight of a2a missiles. But since an Aesa radar will also be fitted, it is only logical that an a2a missile is fitted on to one of the pylons if required.

400 units of panther supposedly delivered. 255 units were the number delivered in 2013. But the total purchase quantity were for 400 units. Although there are no definite delivery records for the remainder 145 units, wiki wand states 400 as the total in inventory.

Quote: The developers said that XF9-1 has basically met the performance requirements of the design. With the adoption of Japan's material technology, the XF9-1 prototype core ensures a reliable operation at a 1800 degree temperature in front of the turbine. Unquote. If an engine is classed as...

https://www.ihi.co.jp/en/products/aeroengine_space_defense/aircraft_engines/index.html IHI-XF9 engine is comparable to P&W F119 engine in power and thrust. It ıs a +1800 centigrade class engine. In fact it would be ideal for our TFX. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/xf9-1.htm...

These missiles need exhaust outlets at the back, unless they are cold launched. Sungur missiles are cold launched. But Sungur for the Gokdeniz-ER need to have longer ranges to be on par with current block of Rolling Airframe Missiles. (10km) Also each Sungur missile as it is, 147cm in length...

This one is worth checking out! Unless it was shared here before. It is TB2 against a Russian Ml-8 helicopter. If true that is worth bragging about. Probably a Cirit or MAM-C may have done the damage.

Exactly! The current MIUS project is not and can not be a replacement of a fully fledged manned fighter jet. It would be a complementary side kick at best. It would and should double or even triple an F16’s effectiveness. But on it’s own it can never replace it. On it’s own it would still be a...

Science fiction becoming reality! A manned/unmanned plane that can reach anywhere on earth within an hour. A turbojet engine will help the plane take off and reach Mach 3 speeds. Then the ramjet takes over and allows the plane to achieve close to mach6 speeds (low hypersonic) for a few minutes...

As far as I know, all avionic upgrades have been completed. It is waiting for the indigenous Aesa radar, which should be ready for trials sometime this year. One plane has been furnished with all the upgrades -apart from Aesa radar- and has flown as a prototype. Although it will be the block 30...

12 x M270A1mlrs purchased from US uses the M26 rockets. Tubitak Sage reverse engineered these and made Pars-Sage-227F rockets. So the ammunition problems were sorted. But with their somewhat limited range (32km) and being an older tech the local TRG122 and TRG 230 ; later with TRLG laser...

I know of the X15 plane achieving over 2km/sec speed at the edge of space. Launched from a B52 bomber and flown by pilots designated as astronauts, the year I was born. During the record Mach 6.93 flight, the aircraft received thermal structural damage and the covering was severely pitted and...

I thought rotating detonation engine was the culmination of all the developments made after the pulse detonation engine. Where as there are certain shortcomings of a pulse detonation engine, there are various advantages with a rotating detonation engine. Apparently the beauty of the rotating...

A manned fighter plane that can achieve hypersonic speeds is a little far fetched with today’s known current technology. Even an unmanned one will be subjected to such stresses and air friction levels that only above a very high altitude can it be considered. Hypersonic is 5+ Mach sustained...

This plane is planned so that first examples will be available after 2035. But taking a previously UK led EF2000 program as example ; The EF2000 idea started in 1971. First consortium formed in 1983 and program launched. First flight in 1994. First orders placed in 1998. It was in 2008 that...

An engine operates most efficiently when the exit velocity closely matches the speed of the airframe. Hence all current engines are optimised and only operate at moderate efficiency. Technically, adding a new flow duct that operates as and when the bypass ratio needs to be altered to give the...