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Looks like the Merceds Launcher Vehicle is now in service together with Tayfun and kara Atmaca.
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10 Tayfun's and 8 SOM very nice news. I wonder what is the production time frame for a package like this? I would hope for a week but a more realistic guess could be a month if not little moreLooks like the Merceds Launcher Vehicle is now in service together with Tayfun and kara Atmaca.
Production quantity depends on how much the army orders if they order large quantities over a long period then production increases. Only then can roketsan invest in its serial production.Q
10 Tayfun's and 8 SOM very nice news. I wonder what is the production time frame for a package like this? I would hope for a week but a more realistic guess could be a month if not little more
Page doesnt exist.Looks like the Merceds Launcher Vehicle is now in service together with Tayfun and kara Atmaca.
Eren is a brilliant addition to our arsenal, they didn't mention it but if it can also be used with TB2 and Anka (and I don't see why it shouldn't be) they just turned into standoff range hunters.![]()
Bayraktar Akinci achieves first air-to-air kill with EREN loitering munition - Türkiye Today
Bayraktar Akinci UCAV destroys Shahed-type target drone using EREN loitering munition in first air-to-air killwww.turkiyetoday.com
Last month Baykar and Roketsan carried out a test firing of a missile named Eren.
This is a very important turning point in slower UCAVs being used in air to air and air to ground combat from stand off distances and a game changer against kamikaze type drones as well as any low flying slow subsonic air breathing platforms with it’s indigenous jet engine.
Eren has shown that it has high precision. With over 15 minutes flight and more than 100km range it can be used against any moving or stationary armoured or non armoured ground targets as well as low flying UAVs including kamikaze drones. Although a price has not been set, it is specifically designed to be economically used against cheap drones as well as more expensive aircrafts.
Akinci finally found it’s ideal stand off attack missile that it can carry in large numbers.
We look forward to it being delivered to TSK in sizeable quantities soon as well as large export numbers of TB3 and Akinci UCAVs.
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Only other viable solution is a Gökdoğan, Bozdoğan, or similar a2a missiles as US an other allies were using. Alternatively even more expensive Patriot missiles.But here one must ask: what is the unit cost of an Eren and a Shahed-like drone?
If the missile costs more than 40–50,000 USD, then it is an expensive proposition, not to mention the additional costs of launching the drone, logistics, maintenance and arming an Akinci or Aksungur drone for a Mission.
A Shahed-like ultra low-cost drone with conventional and commercial GPS and dual-use chips and engines from China, and elsewhere might cost as little as 15–25,000 USD.
i still don't get how they managed to make it so light weight even MAM L weighs about 21 kg and thats just a laser seeker ,Warhead and battery.
Only other viable solution is a Gökdoğan, Bozdoğan, or similar a2a missiles as US an other allies were using. Alternatively even more expensive Patriot missiles.
Eren will be a great deal cheaper than any of those. Also you need to take in to account the fact that if you don't intercept those kamikaze drones they will either kill personnel and/or destroy a radar or defence system worth few hundred million dollars. Can you put a price on our personnel?
Besides, Shreds are estimated between 25 to 40k dollars.
We don't know which turbojet engine they use in this missile. But at 16cm diameter it is probably a really cheap 15 to 20 minute life expectancy engine like TEI TJ35 with a 130mm diameter and just over 3kg in weight that develops 180N thrust.