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I like your optimism. But only recently the TF6000 was delayed more than 6-7 months because of a sale of a simple part being blocked by our so called allies, and had to be made locally. (Dr Aksit‘s words) There are still many parts that depend on foreign input. Many local companies that produce...

You are both missing important points. @Bilge adam reis , 1. TF6000 has already been fired. It has been tested over 100 times. It has been pulled apart and reassembled and fired again. 2. An engine like TF6000, at it’s first firing, would probably give a thrust of 55-65% of aimed final thrust...

Under the agreement, Turkey has full marketing and intellectual rights of the T-129 helicopter. But not of the foreign sourced components of the helicopter like the engines. The transmission was developed and built jointly by Tusas and Leonardo. Turkey probably has full rights over that too. We...

Apart from Attack helicopters becoming natural and easy targets for drones and many air defence systems, T-129 has certain deficiencies that were subject for complaints. Being light and weak armoured were some of them. It had balancing issues. The force really had it’s hearts set in a heavy...

It does sound like that. There could be a change of license agreement. No agreement is written in stone. Even the production of 109 Blackhawks‘ engine license agreement has a clause that we could alter it with approval from GE. I guess the whole point of T629 was to overcome this stumbling...

This issue was discussed here before. T-129 Atak, albeit a Turkish built helicopter, it is a Turco-Italian joint venture project that allows us to produce it under licenses. Italians get their share from each sale of helicopter. Although not confirmed, what makes T-129, as T-129, is the...

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Theoretically what you say is correct. But in reality, each engine with a significantly different thrust level will present different peculiarities that will mean it will need to be redeveloped. There are computer programs that will tell you what you need to do when you produce a gas turbine...

You are correct. Kemankes 2 is launched from ground by a speeding vehicle or Rocket Assisted Launch. Corrected accordingly. https://turdef.com/article/kemankes-2-kamikaze-uav-takes-off-with-rockets Speeding vehicle or catapult launch will probably be secondary methods as ROTA launch will give...

Exactly! These platforms should be built around a specific engine. TS3000 can not be based on TS1400. TS1400 has a two stage compressor with a radial airflow. That is the limit of number of compressor stages for a radial airflow engine. TS3000, if ever realised, is going to be an axial...

Advanced 358 missiles powered by solid fuelled rocket engine with a speed of over 700km/hr, can fly at altitudes of 8500m to 10000m and with a 100km range and go after aerial targets. It is launched from ground. The Kemankes-2 on the other hand has a communication range of 70km. Potentially it...

Great tests and definitely essential before the next stage. But proof of the pudding is in the eating, when it comes to take off and landing of the TB3 with full fuel and payload. That is what will decide to put this bird apart from the other UAVs that have managed to take off and land on a...

I agree with @Nilgiri . There has not been any violation as yet. But it is important to keep the tone civil.

Happy National Sovereignty and Children’s day to all , Ne mutlu Türküm diyene.

In order to inflict enough damage to a ship a missile needs to be : 1. able to carry adequate explosives and/or 2. have plenty of kinetic energy during impact. The ASM-3 missile is approximately 1000kg in weight. So it should have enough explosive on board to sink a ship. At nearly 3 mach speed...

Akbaba missile is a classified development, until someone decides to use it for political means. But it has all the wholemarks that it is still progressing. According to technical information coming out of Roketsan, it is powered by a solid fuelled ramjet engine. Although no specifics have been...

Bro, what you are saying is just semantics. Gökhan was a development under wraps until when defence minister Akar in June 2021 uttered the word Gökhan. Both Science Minister Varank and Gürcan Okumuş had since then stated in 2021 that there were many tests carried out on the ramjet engine, and we...

Turkish Defence Agency is supposed to be the official mouthpiece of SSB (Defence Industry Presidency) . It is embarrassing that they are using the picture of a Japanese Ramjet powered missile to give the news of the development of our own ramjet powered anti ship missile. The mysterious Gökhan...

Unless there is an operational F47 that can replace F22, the Raptor is the top fighter jet in my book. It has high LO characteristics and is a true monster that still many 5th gen manufacturers take as a point of reference. If US would take the leap and start upgrading its avionics, radar and...

Previous newspiece about this, was all about the use of a Delta-V sounding rocket, to place the Tolun munition at such a distance and altitude that, it would negate the need to use an aircraft, hence not putting both the aircraft and the pilot in danger. The smaller of the Delta-V rockets was...