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Thanks to its low weight and silhouette, the Akdoğan missile will be able to be fired from a variety of aircraft in a traditionally unconventional, such as tactical UAVs. In today's combatant aviation, the diversity of elements is maximized and this requires reclassifying these threat groups.
Firing a high-cost air-to-air missile to a tactical UAV system is not cost-effective. On the other hand, the density of such UAVs in the airspace will increase much more in near future. TUBITAK has launched a project based on these new threat classifications at the right time, and I believe that the Turkish Armed Forces will procure them in very high quantities. It can be integrated into almost all UAV systems and can be an option not only for combat, but also as a training missile for manned aircrafts.
This is purely speculative, but I think another use could be as an anti-missile missile. SRAAM missile types are systems that can maneuver at very high G forces, and if you look at the mission design of missiles like IRIS-T for example, interception of opponents' missiles is one of the underlined capabilities. So I think it is possible that TUBITAK will work on a missile that focuses on missile interception and has a lower cost than its counterparts. In addition to electronic countermeasures, decoys, chaff, some kind of very short-range missile could be added to this measures set, against SAMs or radar guided missiles.
Firing a high-cost air-to-air missile to a tactical UAV system is not cost-effective. On the other hand, the density of such UAVs in the airspace will increase much more in near future. TUBITAK has launched a project based on these new threat classifications at the right time, and I believe that the Turkish Armed Forces will procure them in very high quantities. It can be integrated into almost all UAV systems and can be an option not only for combat, but also as a training missile for manned aircrafts.
This is purely speculative, but I think another use could be as an anti-missile missile. SRAAM missile types are systems that can maneuver at very high G forces, and if you look at the mission design of missiles like IRIS-T for example, interception of opponents' missiles is one of the underlined capabilities. So I think it is possible that TUBITAK will work on a missile that focuses on missile interception and has a lower cost than its counterparts. In addition to electronic countermeasures, decoys, chaff, some kind of very short-range missile could be added to this measures set, against SAMs or radar guided missiles.
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TF-X ain't that small
