Gökhan ramjet A-A missile will fly close to hypersonic speeds according to Tubitak Sage director Mr. Gökhan Okumuş. The hypersonic flight starts at Mach 5 so it will most likely fly at Mach 4+ at the terminal stage. Gökdoğans top speed is Mach 4 but rocket-propelled missiles cant maintain their...
Baykar has been working on it for a long time. After the introduction of TB2 Baykar started the first preliminary studies so it is not like it came out of thin air.
No, Pakistan bought 4 modified Milgem for if I'm not mistaken 1 billion $. But the cost doesn't include Pakistani(Harbah missiles for example) or other foreign subsystems(like CAMM for example).
So the cost of "i class" can reach as high as 400 million per ship depending on what is in the deal...
You read that wrong. Erdo tells the EU and the US that as long as I'm in power I can keep refugees but if I'm gone you guys will have millions of refugees at your doors. He is very experienced when it comes to political messages.
BTW <13m wingspan is a lot for a 5-6 tonne aircraft. It is more than enough.
MİUS will have "cooperative target detection" capability. This will be a big advantage against other 5th gen aircraft.
Smart squadron ability. A MiUS squadron can work with each other and with friendly aircraft to...
https://www.defenceturkey.com/en/content/tcg-anadolu-lhd-a-naval-platform-that-will-multiply-the-power-projection-capability-of-turkish-navy-3335
As the size and durability of the aircraft elevators located fore and aft of the flight deck are only suitable for the F-35B, large-scale aircraft...
It is possible but AL-222/322 engine is a good proven design besides we need 2x TS-1400 to power a heavy drone like that which will change the design drastically moreover the compressor section of TS-1400 has to be redesigned.
I think the engine won't be AL-25TLT with this updated design and MTOW of 5+tonnes the engine has to be in the class of AL-222/322.
Probably with a dry thrust of around 5000lbf.
My candidate is Al-222 with an afterburner.
http://www.motorsich.com/eng/products/aircraft/tde/ai-222/
I meant shorter in length. Choice of compound delta wing also made in this regard shorter wings to land to an LHD. The use of canards adds another layer to that.
Yeah, you usually don't use canards with subsonic aircraft. With canards, you can also make main wings smaller which means you can take-off from/land to LHD easier. I can sense that this is the start of something big.
Block 40s and block 50s will be modernized after block 30s. The modernization process will continue for a decade. Block 30s are the oldest one so they will go under modernization first. There are around ~140 block 30 and 40 aircraft with a tempo of 2 per month it will take ~6 years to modernize...
True we are light years ahead of Ukraine in electronics other than some niche areas like passive radars which we caught up in recent years and we are getting ahead.
Body. Bodies of fighters have a design life calculated in-flight hours. In the case of F-16, it is 8000. After it is reached you need to change a wide set of body parts to keep them flying. Structural modernization will add 4000 hours on top of 8000 for a total of 12000 hours. After structural...