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Correct! Scalp as produced, is not capable of hitting moving targets like ships in the sea. But France’s Scalp inventory is going through a mid life upgrade. It includes a two-way data link for in-flight retargeting and a different seeker. (With Dual Mode Active IR and Imaging IR Seeker). This...

It would be wiser to use anti-ship missiles against ships. But the Storm shadow is a different animal. French don’t use it as an anti ship missile. It is supposed to be stealthy. Expected to be not easily registered by radars. It’s high-high-low flight gives it 300NM (550km) range. (Due to...

By the time this ship (presumably TCG TRAKYA) is operational, few of the TF2000 air defence destroyers, all 6 Reis Class Subs and 4 I-Class frigates and few squadrons of TFX in 4++ generation mode, will be in use. So it will have a very capable defensive posture. Besides this is not a ship to...

Exactly, GE realised that Turkey is going to use Zorya gas turbines, if push comes to shove. They don’t want to lose a customer like Turkey. Especially now we have a lot of say in naval platforms and supplying a number of countries with it. Now Ukraine knows that they can’t be too comfortable...

It is a well known fact that apart form the propeller cavitation noise, the engine noise is one of the main sources of noise generated by warships. In the world of stealthy and silent ships, it is imperative that we have to design and produce our naval vessels so that we have as quiet a ship as...

In terms of quiet running and performance nothing come close to GE marine gas-turbines. RR may be a good choice but their turbines are expensive. This deal will make it cheaper for us to produce these and will eliminate any difficulties we may have in acquiring them in the future. This is a...

Spot on! You’ve hit the nail on the head! +1

We can argue here about similarities forever. To you it is similar to f16 project. To me it is more akin to our t129 project. So let us agree to disagree.

You like contradicting everybody. You need to work on that. Also please read a bit carefully the fine nuances in the lines, before blurting out! Turkish F16 project, “when started“, was an “assembly-line” project. The whole F16 plane was US designed, built, used and sold to many countries. JF17...

The JF-17 fighter is basically a Chinese plane. Designed and produced with Pakistan. 58% of the JF-17 airframe, including its front fuselage, wings, and vertical stablizer, is produced in Pakistan. But the rest comes from China. Engine is Russian Klimov RD93. Aesa radar too is Chinese. The whole...

Expected to enter service in second half of 2020s. In other words, after 2025.

Aksungur is comparatively newer. But it was derived from Anka. In essence it is Anka with twin engines. This month it has gone over 1000 flight hours. A lot of customers who have placed Anka orders are in the process of converting all or some of their orders to Aksungur. As most subsystems are...

Aksungur also should be considered with it’s long endurance and range. It managed 60 hours nonstop flight in reconnaissance mode during fire fighting missions. It has around 6500 km range Depending on it’s load and altitude.

A prospective cruise missile travelling at 1.1 Mach at Sea Level and propelled by Idealab IL1600 turbojet. A new horizon for cheap supersonic cruise missile?

CAATSA is not operative on Turkish defence ministry’s purchases. Only applicable to SSB of Turkey. RAM and VLS were outright purchases. It had to go through senate etc. Under license production under the umbrella of “T700 navalised version” or whatever you want to call it can be done. It is...

First one OK. But Pakistan is not a rich country to be able to pay TOT for Anka. Others don’t mean as much when it comes to materialistic state of affairs between countries. On the surface I agree it sounds nice; brotherhood etc ; and they will pave the way to cooperation. But at the end of the...

I wonder what we have got in return??? Mind you. It is only a MOU. Nothing written in stone.

I don’t see any problems if Sikorsky decides to go along the same route as the T700 Blackhawk production being carried out at the moment. Tusas has ample experience and know how about helicopter building. TEI can manufacture the engines like they are doing for the T700. It would be a win-win...

https://www.sabah.com.tr/ekonomi/2021/08/20/savunma-sanayii-baskani-ismail-demir-duyurdu-hava-savunma-muhribi-tf-2000de-flas-gelisme?paging=3 Quote: Uçak motoru konusundaki çalışmaların da devam ettiğini belirten Demir, "En azında prototip ve sonrasında belli sayıda uçağın motorlarını hazır...

I agree with you on the size of the plane. We should have gone for a twin engined but smaller plane. Especially as it was our first shot at a stealth jet. BAE suggested the same with 2 x EJ200 (23000lbf) class engines possibly with their TVC version. But our guys insisted on a larger platform...