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SSB Chairman İsmail Demir: There is no supply risk for MMU's engine:

- “We do not expect any risk as the deliveries of our first batch of orders have started, but we still have alternative works”
- “We are doing risk management on this issue, we will announce it when the time comes”

A slide from the presentation of SSB (Presidency of Defense Industry). It is about radars.

The roadmap is:
1- Domestically designed and manufactured GaN and SiG chips
2- Advanced sensor fusion
3- Multistatic and MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) radars
4- Cognitive radar systems (likely referring to AI augmented signal processing)
5- Procurement of quantum radars

BoraTas said:

A slide from the presentation of SSB (Presidency of Defense Industry). It is about radars.
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The roadmap is:
1- Domestically designed and manufactured GaN and SiG chips
2- Advanced sensor fusion
3- Multistatic and MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) radars
4- Cognitive radar systems (likely referring to AI augmented signal processing)
5- Procurement of quantum radars

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I'm looking forward to this years STG

BoraTas said:

A slide from the presentation of SSB (Presidency of Defense Industry). It is about radars.
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The roadmap is:
1- Domestically designed and manufactured GaN and SiG chips
2- Advanced sensor fusion
3- Multistatic and MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) radars
4- Cognitive radar systems (likely referring to AI augmented signal processing)
5- Procurement of quantum radars

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I'm curious about this multiple-input and multiple output radar. What does it mean exactly?

siegecrossbow said:

I'm curious about this multiple-input and multiple output radar. What does it mean exactly?

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Basically it is an array of coupled radars where more than one of them are emitting and all receivers in the array are receiving the signals of all emitters. Emitters also emit in different waveforms so every radar unit can identify whose return they are getting. You can employ passive units in the array of radars. It offers massive resolution improvement beyond simply triangulating radars. For example, if you have 4 radars in such an array, you have 4 emitters each listened to by 4 receivers. You reach the resolution of an array of 16 non-coupled radars. Its high resolution and simultaneous existence of multiple waveforms make it extremely hard to jam too.

4 radar scenario... The bar on the left is the virtual array generated.

An even better solution is coupling radars that are distributed to a field. In that case you have radars facing the target from different angles and distances. It may be the real stealth killer since it makes stealth much harder to achieve. Even all-aspect stealth we talk about here assumes a single direction of return for each aspect. To counter a distributed MIMO array, you have to consider reflections towards all directions for all aspects. For example how stealthy your aircraft will be to a receiver located to your right by 50 degrees listening to both its own emissions and another radar's emissions located straightly ahead? Also, can you be sure you are not just 10 km away from a passive only unit?

Note: I researched a bit and it seems newer AESA's do the same thing while generating multiple beams to achieve LPI. In fact, it seems the simultaneous existence of multiple frequencies and waveforms is why AESAs are so hard to detect and jam. All of the T/R units listen for all beams. But the resolution increase seems to be non existent in this case as AESAs generate wider beams in multi-beam mode.

New render of the "rainbow"



According to various sources, the TB3 has an endurance of more than 50 hours.

2 LCMs were launched. They are for Qatar. Anatolian Shipyard also announced that there is an ongoing unmanned landing ship project. In my opinion, unmanned landing ships loaded with unmanned ground combat vehicles may be used at the first stages of an amphibious assault to reduce casualties. I would be extremely surprised if China doesn't have such a project too.

sequ said:

New render of the "rainbow"

According to various sources, the TB3 has an endurance of more than 50 hours.

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Is rainbow the official nickname for MIUS?

One other detail I've noticed is that the LERX is rounder in this artwork. Is this a design change over the original or just artistic interpretation?

siegecrossbow said:

Is rainbow the official nickname for MIUS?

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The president mentioned the name rainbow at a visit couple months ago at a Baykar facility. Technically the term "MIUS" refers to the name of the project based on the requirement put forward by the armed forces for an unmanned combat areal vehicle. TAI's proposal is most likely a X-47B/GJ-11 type UCAV yet to be unveiled.

siegecrossbow said:

One other detail I've noticed is that the LERX is rounder in this artwork. Is this a design change over the original or just artistic interpretation?

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A LERX change is also present at an image released on the 1st of January this year. The LERX changed from J-20 style to F-5 style. But overal it still resembles a J-20 the most. But this new image released made the LERX a bit more rounded. It is still in development so these minor changes are to be expected.

I do wonder if Baykar uses windtunnel testing to refine their designs at all. I have this feeling that they don't and they do their testing on computers. It fits them as they are quite innovative and bold and there is no human directly at risk when flying their designs. But I could be wrong.

BoraTas said:

2 LCMs were launched. They are for Qatar. Anatolian Shipyard also announced that there is an ongoing unmanned landing ship project. In my opinion, unmanned landing ships loaded with unmanned ground combat vehicles may be used at the first stages of an amphibious assault to reduce casualties. I would be extremely surprised if China doesn't have such a project too.

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Turkish build vessels are about to compose half of the Qatar navy...