TR Missile & Smart Munition Programs

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Summary, thanks to Gemini:

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  • Transformation in the Defense Industry: The Russia-Ukraine conflict has shifted the focus from R&D to mass production, production speed, and logistics [00:25]. This conflict highlighted the importance of mass production and logistics in modern warfare [07:19].
  • Challenges in Mass Production: Mass production is very challenging, even more so than R&D [09:31]. It requires significant organization to make production sustainable and cost-effective [10:06].
  • Europe's Response: The Russia-Ukraine war exposed Europe's lack of preparedness for a major conflict, prompting them to increase production capacities [12:11].
  • Turkey's Capacity: Turkey is rapidly increasing its mass production capabilities in the defense sector [15:52]. While there may be some areas of deficiency, Turkey is on track to meet its own needs in a potential conflict scenario [16:10].
  • Aslan Group's Activities: Assan Group is involved in the mass production of aircraft bombs, artillery ammunition, and is developing energy materials to convert ammunition into complete rounds [23:55]. They are also working on power groups for land vehicles, including hybrid power groups [27:45].
  • Critical Issues in Ammunition Production: Key challenges include the supply of raw materials, especially chemicals for explosives and gunpowder [36:01].
  • Astek: A group company specializing in smart ammunition and electronic avionic software, focusing on developing smart ammunition for UAVs [44:12].
  • Technology Transfer: Technology transfer and collaborative production with other countries do not pose a risk. Turkey is careful about sharing critical technologies and benefits from the commercial gains [47:35].
  • Hypersonic Technology: Turkey is conducting research to develop hypersonic missile technology [50:55].
  • Future of Air Platforms: Due to the advancement of air defense systems, it is believed that air platforms will face more challenges in the future [56:31].
 
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Well if you can mass produce and cheap loitering ammo, and follow up with drones. You pretty much got a chance to wipe out enemy resistance before the man vs. man frontlines even reach each other.

We need industrial capability to mass produce like that. And secure facilities under ground as well.
 

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I thought AI ChatGPT & Gemini analyses and evaluations were forbidden in the forum?
Asking it questions that it doesn't know the answers to is still forbidden, as it doesn't bring anything to the table.

Using it to show some bullet points for an hour long Turkish interview with a very important name without subtitles is pretty okay as it is a service to the international users.

We don't "hate" AI, we just think it's not good in the role of creating original thoughts and hampers actual discussion and from time to time straight up lies. Regardless, even as a summary tool it's lacking. It lacks the nuance. It only mentions hybrid powerpacks in passing, while it was talked about 3 separate time during the interview. Makes a typo, calling it "Aslan" group instead, while it's clear even from the title it's supposed to be Assan. It should be used with common sense for light duties, as was the case here, as noone will use few hours of their day to translate an hour long interview to English.
 

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This should not be a reproach, but I think you should allow context-based analysis.
the issue is that it doesn't do analysis. it uses bunch of terminology terms to feign competence and consistency. it is extremely useful in many cases but is surely not reliable. besides, without knowing your conversation history(used prompts) with it, we cannot know if the results are genuine or it just went out of its way to extra please you.
 

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At best, the glorified chatbots we have right now regurgitate information freely available on the Internet to everyone. At worst, however, as @hugh stated, it makes stuff up or omit critical information to fit the answer to your prompt. It is unreliable and all it does is get people's minds even lazier than they have already gotten.

People should be researching stuff themselves and if it goes over their head, they should consult an actual expert if they can, if they can't that's alright as well. Not everybody has to be an expert on everything, but pretending to have actual knowledge or understanding because of something "AI", which has no intelligence at all, came up with is plain wrong and only causes more confusion.
 

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