Well, what an interesting news. No need to have expectations, but it's still interesting. Egypt had previously shown interest in local production of KAI's T-50
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First autonomous barrel role by a UCAV according to Baykar:
From ASELSAN's 2023 activity report:
As predicted, MURAD has become a radar "family". The AESA Radar of Kaan, previously named BÜRFIS, has been coded as the "600A". OTOH, F16's radar is given the code "100A".
TOYGUN 100 and TOYGUN 200 preliminary design phases have been completed. The journey towards CDR has begun. (the same situation applies to KARAT IRST)
MMU optical systems visual.
Prototypes are being produced for MWIS. (F-35 DAS equivalent?)
As predicted, MURAD has become a radar "family". The AESA Radar of Kaan, previously named BÜRFIS, has been coded as the "600A". OTOH, F16's radar is given the code "100A".
TOYGUN 100 and TOYGUN 200 preliminary design phases have been completed. The journey towards CDR has begun. (the same situation applies to KARAT IRST)
MMU optical systems visual.
Prototypes are being produced for MWIS. (F-35 DAS equivalent?)
Reminds me of when a Russian Su-27 tried to take down a Ukranian Tb-2.
It's surprisingly agile for such a design.
I want to (and we might) see a beefy SOM shaped stealth drone that fits in the Kaan IWB, powered by a small turbofan (Kale is working on it) with an IRST in its nose that can fly in and out of the Kaan IWB autonomously so that it can triangulate together with the Kaan aerial targets with their IRST which the drone shares with Kaan through the intra-flight datalink for a completely passive BVR shot.
The BVR missile only needs uplink info send by the Kaan radar to fly to the target to subsequently home in after it has locked on.
To keep the drone as small and light as possible, it shouldn't come with landing gear but the idea should be to dock into the Kaan for landing (together) and refueling. Being able to supercruise is a nice bonus.
Not a far fetched idea IMO. We might see this in the 6th gens that are under development atm.
Similar to this but stealthy and with collapsible wings:
Yes, Super Simsek is the ideal candidate, it just needs a bit of modification here and there:
The BVR missile only needs uplink info send by the Kaan radar to fly to the target to subsequently home in after it has locked on.
To keep the drone as small and light as possible, it shouldn't come with landing gear but the idea should be to dock into the Kaan for landing (together) and refueling. Being able to supercruise is a nice bonus.
Not a far fetched idea IMO. We might see this in the 6th gens that are under development atm.
Similar to this but stealthy and with collapsible wings:
Yes, Super Simsek is the ideal candidate, it just needs a bit of modification here and there:
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Tbh It is a 1000km range radar, and S band. If it was L band I would agree with your count of modules tho
Do you have an indication whether the Alp-500G will be an S or L band radar?
I really dont have any but I did saw some papers about ASELSANs development on 200W S band and 1000W L band modules for long range radars