Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

The reason for this flood of information is because today the heads of SSB (Turkish defense industries presidency), Tubitak SAGE (Turkish R&D institute for defense) and Bayraktar all gave interviews to various internet channels. I guess this makes it up for the postponing of IDEF '21 from next month to August.

TÜBİTAK-SAGE head: "We are holding various negotiations for the development of MMU's ejection seat by TÜBİTAK-SAGE."


This statement about negotiation comes after CEO of TAI Temel Kotil remark a few weeks ago about ejection seats, in which he was seeking a Turkish company/institute willing to design and develop ejection seats for a mere 2 ejection seats per month production.

New TB-2 deliveries to the Turkish gendarmerie and police now carry the domestic Aselsan CATS electro-optical turret instead of a foreign one.

Why the Turkish military indigenization drive is so important:


The JDAM was sold to Turkey for $100.000 and Turkey managed to produce and equivalent (HGK) for les then 1/3 of the cost. When the Americans came to know of this, they lowered their price to 1/6 ($17000).

The US does that kind of stunt all the time to kill someone else's weapons industry.

Sida unmanned surface vessel from the ULAQ series. First firing trials to start soon.



ISR & EW
INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE & ELECTRONIC WARFARE


ASuW - G/M
ANTI-SURFACE WARFARE, GUIDED MISSILE


MCMV
MINE COUNTERMEASURES VESSEL


ASW
ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE

STM ALPAGU Coiling Ammunition goes into mass production

ALPAGU Docking Ammunition, developed by STM with national means, goes into mass production. ALPAGU will also be integrated into various platforms.

Mass production preparations have begun for the ALPAGU Fixed Wing Portable Intelligent Ammunition System developed by STM with national and maximum local means. Referring to ALPAGU during the 4th Traditional Lagari Aviation and Defense Days, STM Flight Control Group Leader Tuğrul Aydemir explained that ALPAGU is preparing for mass production.



In the statement made by Aydemir, the following statements were made: “ALPAGU is in preparation for mass production and is about to enter the inventory. Later, various integration projects will be commissioned. "

ALPAGU Coiled Ammunition is expected to be used by various platforms in addition to TEK-ER. It was previously announced that ALPAGU can be used by UAV platforms such as AKINCI and AKSUNGUR. ALPAGU, which also has a special launcher system to be integrated into naval platforms, was exhibited during the Eurasia Airshow held in 2018.




ALPAGU Technical Specifications

ALPAGU Entangled Ammunition, which can stay in the air for about 10 minutes; It has a range of 5 kilometers, a weight of 1,950 kilograms, an altitude of 120 meters (AGL) and various optical systems.

Range: 5 km
Duration: 10 minutes
Duty Altitude: 400 ft (AGL)
Cruise Speed: 50 knots
Maximum Speed: 65 knots
Weight: 1.9 kg
Temperature: -20 / + 50 ° C
Power: LiPo Battery
Preparation Time: Maximum 1 minute

Possible F124 turbofan equivalent under development by TEI called the TEI-TF6000:



One TEI engineer on LinkedIn wrote that he worked on the TF6000, TJ300, TJ90 and TS1400.

This TF6000 (6000lb of thrust) might very well be augmented with an afterburner into an F125 equivalent with 9000lb of thrust.

sequ said:

Bye Bye MTU!

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You distant cousin will replace you..

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When will this become operational? I’m a bit surprised by the speed at which they made the engine breakthrough.

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When will this become operational? I’m a bit surprised by the speed at which they made the engine breakthrough.

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2024 and it's been in development since 2018 and the 1000hp engine since 2017. Again, with a solid industrial and technological base and a bit of foreign help any country can reach the next level in tech development.