TR Missile & Smart Munition Programs

[boredaf]

All very valid points. But don’t discount KE’s stealth capability. It may not be as stealthy as an Anka-3 or F35. But it should be stealthier than any 4th generation jet fighter like F16Block72, Rafale or even EF.
I would forget about dog fighting for quite sometime yet. At least until AI matures to a level where it could be usable in real life situations.
KE with Murad and really long range a2a missiles, will be a BVR demon for all 4.5 gen fighters. A Hurjet with 2 or more of these 100km ahead, will be a nightmare scenario for any 4.5 gen fighter.
It has to be remembered that by computer control it is possible to fly or cruise without those canards ever moving. (Using wing and trailing edge elevons). That “minimises” the frontal and side RCS penalty increase of the plane due to the presence of the canards. Also specifically using radar absorbing materials on the canards and the complete structure, this penalty can be further minimised.

Stealth hit of canards have been far overstated at any rate, Chinese used canards in their 5th gen stealth plane and yanks have showed their 6th gen concept with canards. KE *is* low observable, it is not a threshold you fall on one side or the other, it is a scale and your plane/drone places itself on a point. People are just looking at smooth paint job and think "that must be more stealth than this one!"

 

[MonteCarlo]

Autonomous TV guided Laçin. Cheap and fire-and-forget. As image processing gets easier to do in small form factor we will probably get more and more tv guided versions of other munitions too

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2112820138244235724

 

[Fuzuli NL]

 

[Umigami]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2113164992241619209

 

[Yasar_TR]

KGK-84'ten deniz hedefine tam isabet!

F-16 savaş uçağından ateşlenen ASELSAN KGK-84 Kanatlı Güdüm Kiti, Sinop'tan yapılan test atışında deniz hedefini tam isabetle vurdu!

www.defenceturk.net

Another bullseye hit that is done with surgical precision. MK84 KGK smart bomb that has a range of over 100km when released from F16s at 40000ft give them stand off targeting capability.

The write up specifies it as a sea target being hit. But the target looks like it is tethered with mooring cables and not drifting like the Tayfun block 3 test.

 

[Fatman17]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2114956097274704325

 

[boredaf]

When an airbase stretches for kilometres you have two choices, quadcopters or Gazap

I'm answering this here because it doesn't belong in the drones thread.

People need to stop exaggerating Gazap. It is a MK-84 bomb with its RDX filling replaced and possibly pre-scored casing. It can possibly create a bigger blast pressure (due to its PBX based filler instead of RDX) but their claim of having 10 fragments every 1 square meter in 1 km is absolute bullshit, it is mathematically impossible. It also doesn't have a 1000 kg explosive in it, the whole thing weighs 900+ kgs, as it is a MK-84 derivative, and 400+ kg of that is the casing in case of MK-84. And you cannot thin the bomb casing beyond a certain point because it has to be able to survive the trip, which involves surviving high G and its own weight, again 900+ kg.

And, there hasn't been a single pip about it being delivered. We have weekly press conferences and things that get into the inventory are named every single week. We got NEB, for example, we even disclosed Tayfun but Gazap hasn't been mentioned once.