Today Estonia singed an agreement to buy Turkish armored vehicles, Nurol NMS 4x4 and Otokar Arma 6x6 worth $200 million.
Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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The Turkish defense industry is well aware of that. Officials have stated it multiple times. They are doing everything they can to increase production of all sorts of weapons and ammunition.
After the US, I believe that Turkiye is the biggest producer of PGM in NATO ( and the 3rd in the world overall). As an example, this week Roketsan announced a doubling in the production of ATGMs and increased production for the MAM family: Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
Minister of Finance sent Dr. Kotil a film of the American 6th gen fighter:
TAI CEO Temel Kotil: "Our Minister sent a small video, America's 6th generation. I said, 'Dear Minister, let's finish the 5th, it will come at the 6th.' These are actually stages. When KAAN is finished, the country will want a 6th generation. There is more later. The 6th generation is a slightly more powerful aircraft. It means there are unmanned aircraft around. As I told my Minister, let's finish this first and then we will finish the rest. What is important is not KAAN, but the ability to do this. When we first made it taxi, there was a comment on Greek television: Turks may not be able to finish this, but they have the infrastructure to do it. In fact, what is important is our 6800 bright engineers, the same number of technicians and 15 thousand people, including the tea sellers who serve them. The rest will happen anyway."
TAI CEO Temel Kotil: "Our Minister sent a small video, America's 6th generation. I said, 'Dear Minister, let's finish the 5th, it will come at the 6th.' These are actually stages. When KAAN is finished, the country will want a 6th generation. There is more later. The 6th generation is a slightly more powerful aircraft. It means there are unmanned aircraft around. As I told my Minister, let's finish this first and then we will finish the rest. What is important is not KAAN, but the ability to do this. When we first made it taxi, there was a comment on Greek television: Turks may not be able to finish this, but they have the infrastructure to do it. In fact, what is important is our 6800 bright engineers, the same number of technicians and 15 thousand people, including the tea sellers who serve them. The rest will happen anyway."
This larger drone has 30 km strike range with the MAM-T munitions. That would mean it is able to do a stand-off attack against short range air defenses. For example Tor has 12-15 km missile range. Even most Pantsir systems have like 20-30 km missile range. Only Pantsir-SM has 40 km missile range.
+ MAM-L IIR with 25km range and of course Kemankes CM with 50+ km range.
Some CATS and Aselflir-500 news from Aselsan CEO Akyol:
- Within the scope of the nationalization vision, we made our CATS camera and offered it to the service of our Turkish Armed Forces and UAVs as ASELSAN.
- Thus, we nullified the embargoes unfairly applied to Turkey at that time. In fact, if we summarize ASELSAN's activities under 3 main headings; Our primary goal is localization-nationalization. Doing your best is the second subject area. The third issue is breaking new ground (innovation).
- We succeeded in creating a product that could not be produced from this perspective. As of today, the 158th (CATS) has been produced. It has been exported to 12 countries. It is also used successfully by our security forces. It was a good example of doing what cannot be done and doing what is national.
- An example of doing the best in the world is ASELFLIR-500. It will enter the inventory in the coming days. It is a camera that we can call the best in its field in the world. We completed this too. Their flights are largely over. It has now become a product that our security forces will use next year.
- ASELFLIR-500 specifically targeted high resolution and we achieved this. Today, I can easily say that we are talking about a system that can detect people over 20 kilometers, detect tanks over 80 kilometers, and mark over 20 kilometers.
- He can do this both day and night. At the same time, it has very high imaging capability in low light environments and we have also introduced the HD SWIR camera feature for the first time in this class. A system with high imaging performance in foggy and marine environments.
- While he can make his own marking adjustments, he also has a shooting performance of over 95 percent in his markings. Therefore, we made it national with CATS and exported it to the world. Now we have done the best in our field and from now on, ASELSAN is moving towards breaking new ground.
- Nearly 5000 sub-components and more than 20 different technologies come together in ASELFLIR-500. Unlike our counterparts in the world, we are trying to localize all its components, starting from its chip, detector, INS, GPS, lens.
- We made these products in order not to be exposed to any limitations or obstacles. ASELFLIR-500 was executed with a pre-designed approach against all kinds of obstruction. We continue with an approach where we use more and more components nationally every year.
- Our main philosophy is to increase added value, to become resistant to embargoes in case of any risk, and to stand one step ahead of our competitors by increasing and developing the components we master in the product.
- With this understanding, we continue our way in all products. Next year, in the 'Turkey Century', we will continue this journey with an understanding that leads to much larger, more challenging goals than today's ASELSAN.
- Turkey is one of the 3 countries that manufacture a product such as ASELFLIR-500, designed with common aperture architecture in the 15 inch class.
- This has serious advantages. We have shown that it outperforms competing products with its range performance, especially low-light image acquisition, ability to achieve results in fog, artificial intelligence-supported image processing algorithms, all this main architecture and the technologies behind it.
- Our security forces will experience the difference themselves when they use this.
- ASELSAN has a center of excellence in the electro-optics field. Significant investments have been made in this field in the last 25-30 years. ASELSAN is one of the few companies in the world that can provide end-to-end products in the field of electro-optics.
- Within the scope of the nationalization vision, we made our CATS camera and offered it to the service of our Turkish Armed Forces and UAVs as ASELSAN.
- Thus, we nullified the embargoes unfairly applied to Turkey at that time. In fact, if we summarize ASELSAN's activities under 3 main headings; Our primary goal is localization-nationalization. Doing your best is the second subject area. The third issue is breaking new ground (innovation).
- We succeeded in creating a product that could not be produced from this perspective. As of today, the 158th (CATS) has been produced. It has been exported to 12 countries. It is also used successfully by our security forces. It was a good example of doing what cannot be done and doing what is national.
- An example of doing the best in the world is ASELFLIR-500. It will enter the inventory in the coming days. It is a camera that we can call the best in its field in the world. We completed this too. Their flights are largely over. It has now become a product that our security forces will use next year.
- ASELFLIR-500 specifically targeted high resolution and we achieved this. Today, I can easily say that we are talking about a system that can detect people over 20 kilometers, detect tanks over 80 kilometers, and mark over 20 kilometers.
- He can do this both day and night. At the same time, it has very high imaging capability in low light environments and we have also introduced the HD SWIR camera feature for the first time in this class. A system with high imaging performance in foggy and marine environments.
- While he can make his own marking adjustments, he also has a shooting performance of over 95 percent in his markings. Therefore, we made it national with CATS and exported it to the world. Now we have done the best in our field and from now on, ASELSAN is moving towards breaking new ground.
- Nearly 5000 sub-components and more than 20 different technologies come together in ASELFLIR-500. Unlike our counterparts in the world, we are trying to localize all its components, starting from its chip, detector, INS, GPS, lens.
- We made these products in order not to be exposed to any limitations or obstacles. ASELFLIR-500 was executed with a pre-designed approach against all kinds of obstruction. We continue with an approach where we use more and more components nationally every year.
- Our main philosophy is to increase added value, to become resistant to embargoes in case of any risk, and to stand one step ahead of our competitors by increasing and developing the components we master in the product.
- With this understanding, we continue our way in all products. Next year, in the 'Turkey Century', we will continue this journey with an understanding that leads to much larger, more challenging goals than today's ASELSAN.
- Turkey is one of the 3 countries that manufacture a product such as ASELFLIR-500, designed with common aperture architecture in the 15 inch class.
- This has serious advantages. We have shown that it outperforms competing products with its range performance, especially low-light image acquisition, ability to achieve results in fog, artificial intelligence-supported image processing algorithms, all this main architecture and the technologies behind it.
- Our security forces will experience the difference themselves when they use this.
- ASELSAN has a center of excellence in the electro-optics field. Significant investments have been made in this field in the last 25-30 years. ASELSAN is one of the few companies in the world that can provide end-to-end products in the field of electro-optics.