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Our most comprehensive look to "Steel Dome" yet, with few never announced systems littered in, from C4 Defence's latest cover. Note the fixed location ALP-600G radar and the Siper TEL vehicle.

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Hard to say from this low quality picture but still I think twin frontal fin sets (as seen below) should be visible or at least distinguishable but they are not... a design change in missile???

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what is wrong with the forum nobody have posted :D...

Lovely, but seems development is going slower than I expected. Radars and the EO both look to be mockups, so this was just a launch test for the missile.
 

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even more interestingly there may be drastic structural changes on the missile itself I mean compared to missile mockups we have seen so far

We knew for some time that the missile would be different than Sungur, no? Levent is longer.

As Yıldırım points out, in a past mockup, they had shown two different missiles in a model, one of which Sungur. Looks like the idea of using Sungur as a substitute is now dead after Aselsan touted Gökdoğan directly for their own program.
 

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We knew for some time that the missile would be different than Sungur, no? Levent is longer.

As Yıldırım points out, in a past mockup, they had shown two different missiles in a model, one of which Sungur. Looks like the idea of using Sungur as a substitute is now dead after Aselsan touted Gökdoğan directly for their own program.
in fact ı am talking about twin frontal fin sets

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even more interestingly there may be drastic structural changes on the missile itself I mean compared to missile mockups we have seen so far

We knew for some time that the missile would be different than Sungur, no? Levent is longer.

As Yıldırım points out, in a past mockup, they had shown two different missiles in a model, one of which Sungur. Looks like the idea of using Sungur as a substitute is now dead after Aselsan touted Gökdoğan directly for their own program.
Back in days when Sungur-D was rumored, Navy had certain demands such as two way data link, range and so on. Logically it would yield a bigger missile than Sungur even for Levent Block-1.

Also i am not sure if Roketsan still goes with Block-1 and 2 missiles for Levent, or jumping straight to the Block-2.
 

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