What EOTS system do your national helicopters use? Does DRDO have Common Aperture EOTS systems in service? If there's can you give links so I can inform myself. And the sensor that you shared a picture of has HD Thermal Camera. Can you give info about the company's FPA manufacturing...
Just to clarify, the one in 2023 will be probe rocket and the one in 2027 will be an actual orbital rocket. The two are wildly different capabilities(like orders of magnitude).
You know better than I that there's a limit to how much deterrence you can cause with these types of weapons. Having super-long range missiles won't give extra deterrence after some point. For that, you need different types of warheads , if you catch my drift.
You have a point with Gezgin but I like to remind you that this goes beyond Gezgin. We have a space program. And as years go by, especially towards the end of the decade, we will have rockets that will push payloads(400kg+) to 27.000+ km/h speed for LEO. Converting such big rockets to ballistic...
What would be the rationale behind revealing such a weapon? You can't export it because of MTCR. Is it just for deterrence purposes? When you have a strong national defense program, after some point you would stop trying to be deterrent and be more secretive. Because the things you revealed so...
That 12 cents per kWh is absurd. Solar already cost less than 5 cents per kWh and is forecasted to cost 2 cents per kWh by 2030 but we will be leeched by the Russians for fifteen years and pay a premium 12cents/kWh. That is SIX times more than what the alternative will cost by the end of this...
They not only can't export missiles over 300km range, they also can't give technology about missiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Regime
What is the maximum range for a missile we can test in Turkey without flying over cities? Supposing the missiles range is several thousand kilometers, where would we even test it?
The likelyhood of those events happening on or by that date, to me, are;
Kızılelma will fly (%95)
TB3 will fly (75%)
Hürjet will fly (50%)
Atak 2 will fly (<10%)
TFX will taxi (70% by cutting some corners)
We shouldn't be obsessed with the date. The important thing is to fly when it's...
I would bet my house they consider no such things. Selçuk Bayraktar is very vocal about developing manned fighters and he thinks it's a waste of resources. Albeit somewhat subtly, he even picks on TFX for this very reason .
I wonder how many KIZILELMAs will TAF and TNF will end up ordering? In my mind, the number is between 150-200 but I got a feeling I'm being too generous :) But who knows. If the platform lives up to the expectations we may see an airforce whose missions could be executed completely by drones. If...