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Single engine carrier based aircraft is not the best idea for expensive fighters, especially for those that carry human life. Redundancy against engine problems and thrust requirements for short take off, makes single engine less desirable. F35B engines age faster because of extreme strain put...

KAAN has a trust to weight ratio of 1.07 =2x131,000/(14.150+3500)x9.81 with a very limited 3.5 ton payload. Ratio is similar to F-18 and also Mig29K which uses STOBAR even without needing full length of the ship. Technically possible but where we will use aircraft carriers, I wonder. Carrier is...

Patience, wait for March 18th Martyrs Commemoration and Çanakkale Victory Day for all these national defense project progress reports to be made public, all at once or in close succession.

Syrian Army, Iran, Russia, PKK all started using FPV racing drones with RPGs attached. Drone costs $200, RPG head costs $300. Only reason there are still tanks around is because China restricts exports of drone parts. If they didn't there could be tens of millions of those. Single DJI drone...

I couldn't find official specifications of IRIS-300 and so I used IRIS-100 as reference. If IRIS-300 is not UV only like IRIS-100 and it is a sophisticated IR imaging system, ignore this.

IRIS is just a very simplistic missile warning system and only against common missiles since it only sees solar blind UV and filters out all other light spectrums to reduce clutter and requirement for a smarter image analyzer. DAS and dozen other systems below use IR instead of UV because jet...

We have no right to blame West. They are our enemies despite all this NATO allies, charade. There is no confusion about that on THEIR side. Blame SSB, Aselsan, government for making us endure this and million other humiliations by failing to replicate these or even better technologies in time...

https://www.defenceturk.net/suudi-arabistana-akinci-tiha-ihracatinda-detaylar-belli-oldu

4 billion is normally too small to give away this kind of cutting edge ToT for other high end drone sellers. China requested 10 billion for this. America would not give any ToT and would charge at least 5 times per plane. But still a win for Türkiye and Baykar. Hopefully upgrades like Murad...

Ignore button is a life saver here. https://www.twz.com/first-laser-weapon-for-a-fighter-delivered-to-the-air-force

When you use even a weak laser for a relatively much shorter period against a very sensitive IR seeker; You damage it. Therefore blind the missile. RF seeker ones require stronger lasers against their control surfaces...

Yes that is why Kizilelma desperately needs, DIRCM as powerful as it's systems allows and DAS for situational awareness against incoming missile and not getting lost during following 9G maneuvers while firing up chaff and flare. Again Red Flag never tests these more critical counter missile...

Destroying the missile is not as hard as it sounds. There is even a battery powered Turkish drone with ability to destroy bombs, household metal gas cylinders PKK uses. Modern DIRCM can focus its beam on the IR seeker or the control surfaces etc. So targeting isn't an issue either. It should...

I haven't read the entire answer. But DUH it will EVENTUALLY see the F35 with its own damn IR seeker when it gets close. Mid course RF route corrections from the source also exist you know. Why am I even telling you that? Isn't that obvious?

Says who. Go watch a Nikon handheld camera zooming to individual valleys on the moon. Better IRST is possible as technology advances. OBVIOUSLY. Sure you can. It is not hard at all. You have so many ways to guide your missile to your target without a lock. Radar lock is the most primitive way...

DAS system has a much shorter range than IRST, typically less than 10 km. Making IRST on Kizilelma work with it's AESA radar is sensor fusion too. It could help US defeat F-35 just like I showed you above. Sensor fusion, DAS, laser pod, other DIRCM, low RCS are not some magical things that...

These are AESA radar detection distances of 2 opposing fighters based on the frontal RCS Here it looks like we have to wait until we get as close as 18km. But IRST is 100+ km and it can cue our AESA radar to focus beams on that spot. Entire force of AESA radar focused on 1 tiny spot like laser...

Kizilelma has a RCS of 0.3m2 according to experts. That along with sheer numbers, 100+km IRST + laser DIRCM, it could be enough to take down 5th gen F35 fighters. Remember in Red Flag they don't actually FIRE missiles. Therefore we mustn't assume first shoot equals to first kill. A destructive...

America created and delivered a weapon strong enough to physically destroy fast incoming missiles (up to 100KW) via an airborne laser pod on THEIR F-16s. I doubt they will sell it to us. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/laser-weapons-coming-f-35-f-15-and-f-16s-187539 We should and with...

Am I speaking Chinese or something? Didn't you see the giant chart? Neither s400 nor Patriot can stop 100% of threats. Some will ALWAYS get through. If s400 stops 1 warhead and saves 1 million lives it will be worth 1000 F-35s that we can't reverse engineer due to complexity of both hardware...