With modern tech , SAMs can make BM useless but what Turkiye should do is equip BM at least modern ones like CENK & tayfun with chafs like fighter aircrafts or just like Russia did and increase success to bypass enemy SAMs . But until now no news about Turkiye BM anti SAMs capability
Nice SOM-J you got there, would be too bad if two of them fits to IWB of Kızılelma.
I hope we'll see weapon tests from KE very soon, I genuinely can't wait.
Nice SOM-J you got there, would be too bad if two of them fits to IWB of Kızılelma.
When the time comes, some of our neighbours will be sleepless for sure
Nice SOM-J you got there, would be too bad if two of them fits to IWB of Kızılelma.
If SOM-j is launched from KE, why will need ANKA-3?
Nice SOM-J you got there, would be too bad if two of them fits to IWB of Kızılelma.
Anka 3 flies for 10 hours and KE for 5 max. Anka 3 will likely carry more Mk83
So we don't need KE unless it is supersonic.
I meant Anka 3 will often carry mk83 and the like. KE has different capabilities
Up up upThe foldable fin of GÖKSUR was tested in the Ankara Wind Tunnel.
An important test phase related to ASELSAN's Autonomous Close-Range Air Defense Missile System, named GÖKSUR, was carried out in the Ankara Wind Tunnel.
Currently developed by ASELSAN for ship platforms, GÖKSUR will provide air defense using TÜBİTAK SAGE’s BOZDOĞAN-DH missile.
Tested in the Ankara Wind Tunnel
The foldable fin within-visual-range missile model developed under the project was tested at 0.2 Mach speed with different angles of attack, yaw, elevator, aileron, and rudder using the model movement system and a 6-component internal balance in the Ankara Wind Tunnel.
According to information shared by the TÜBİTAK SAGE team, four pressure measurements were taken from the cavity behind the model to perform axial force correction caused by the holding arm.
The scans were conducted continuously as angle of attack scans and yaw angle scans. Measurements were completed in 13 out of a total of 361 scan tests. A total of 15 different control surface angles were used in the tests.
First exhibited at IDEF’23
Specially developed for naval platforms, GÖKSUR was first exhibited at IDEF'23 held last year. The system was specifically designed for naval platforms.
The system uses the BOZDOĞAN-DH missile, developed by TÜBİTAK-SAGE and updated according to the air defense needs of naval platforms, as the interceptor missile. The GÖKSUR Close-Range Air Defense Missile System is being developed within a product family concept and offers a solution with three different configurations based on a modular design approach.
The GÖKSUR Close-Range Air Defense Missile System features 360-degree threat elimination capability, new generation IIR seeker guided missile, multiple target interception capability, ability to operate independently and/or integrated with a platform, mid-course guidance with data link, and high single-shot interception probability.
Equivalent to RAM
The system, which will be equivalent to the US-produced RAM System, has the primary task of destroying anti-ship missiles targeting naval platforms in the air. The Turkish Navy has long faced an embargo on the supply of munitions for the US-produced RAM System installed on the MİLGEM ADA Class Corvettes in its inventory.
Roketsan is also conducting studies on the subject within the scope of the LEVENT Project.
The canister exit velocity tests of Bozdoğan-DH missile, which is the most important section of Göksur CIWS developed for TNF in cooperation with Aselsan/Tübitak Sage, were carried out at ART. The missile will be an improved version of Bozdogan AA missile for naval platforms
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in a way I agree and seems that Bozdoğan DH may one step ahead?... yet eventhough I may ask for too much I hope both missiles find their places by time, in any case studies on Levent missile is a worthy attempt and definitly important as well IMOLevent missile seems to be our first missile with 8 forward canards (Turkish Python 5)
-more lift upfront
- easier to adjust the angle of attack - high pitch authority- in short most probably our most agile missile so far
-purely speculative but who knows we may be looking at a near future Air to Air missile design as well ???
It depends. It has only an IIR sensor and no passive RF sensors. It is big and expensive because it is designed as an a-a missile for high-value air targets.
