Bayar[USER=”77048″]St. John[/USER] The conceptual design for the Tempest engine is very similar if not identical to the one being developed by Rolls Royce and Turkey for the TAI TF-X.
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BayarTurkish president declares to produce larger armed UAVs
President Erdogan says drones that will be produced in few months to set example to world
By Zafer Fatih Beyaz, Hatice Ozdemir Tosun and Merve Yildizalp
ANTALYA, Turkey
Turkey will produce larger armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in a few months, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday.
Speaking at a mass opening ceremony in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, Erdogan stated the new product would set “an example to the world.”
Stating that Turkey has been producing both surveillance and armed drones, Turkish leader said: “Now, we are producing larger armed unmanned air vehicles and it will be completed in a few months.”
He went on to say that 65 percent of Turkish defense industry needs are provided by local producers, highlighting his country’s recent success in the defense industry.
On upcoming local elections in the country, President Erdogan, who is also the head of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, said the elections are crucial for the future of Turkey.
The March 31 elections have become “a matter of survival for our country” due to the latest developments in the region, he said at a dinner with his party officials in Antalya later in the day.
BayarTurkey successfully tests indigenous Vertical Launch version of the Roketsan ATMACA long-range anti-ship missile. The missile has a range greater than 300km (it was originally planned for 250+ km).
Turkey also successfully tests its new indigenous high precision Short Range Ballistic Missile- the Roketsan BORA-2. The BORA-2 has a range of 400+ km.
The BORA-2 successfully hit a sea based target with 1m CEP at a distance of 400km. 1000km and 2500km versions are in the pipeline.
Bayar[USER=”4698″]bring_it_on[/USER] Turkish media is reporting the above figures based on a telephone conversation between President Erdogan and President Trump this week. I also was skeptical at first..
Although something very interesting and unprecedented is going on between the US and Turkey of late. e.g. There is talk that Trump will release a Turkish Banker held in a New York prison for Iran sanctions evasions, extradite Fetullah Gulen (the cleric wanted by Turkey) by revoking his Green Card for Tax fraud and increase F-35 sales to Turkey…there must be some Quid pro quo going on and it may have something to do with Turkey’s investigation into Kushner over the Kashoogi affair.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/fethullah-gulen-extradition-us-turkey-trump-erdogan-failed-coup-criticism-saudi-arabia-a8685826.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/turkey-sees-positive-signals-from-us-on-northern-syria/2018/12/17/3fbcec7e-01fc-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.97c64c2d462f
BayarPresident Erdogan of Turkey confirms that Turkey will be purchasing 120 F-35’s including 20 F-35B’s: https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkey-plans-to-buy-120-f-35-fighter-jets-from-us-erdogan/
The first two F-35 fighter jets were transferred to Turkey at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas in June 2018.
The United States will hand over another two more F-35s in March 2019. By the end of 2019 Turkey intends to field 30 F-35’s.
BayarRoketsan ATMACA anti-ship and land attack missile enters serial production.
See http://en.c4defence.com/Announcements/atmaca-cruise-missile-serial-production-agreement/7332/4
http://www.defenseworld.net/news/23612/Turkey_to_Start_Manufacturing_Anti_ship_Cruise_Mis sile#.XAHeKJMzZsM
– 200km + range (exact range classified but thought to be 290km)
– 800 kg
– INS/GPS+RA+DL (all indigenously produced)
– Data Link- Network Centricity
– Indigenous KALE engine
– GPS compatible with Turkish Regional Global Positioning Satellites independent of US & Russian systems
– Land versions, Surface Combatant versions and Submarine versions
– Can use existing Harpoon Tubes for launch or indigenous VLS systems.
Turkey has also begun lining its shoreline with Quadpacked ATMACA canisters and intends to defend its exclusive economic zone using Land based ATMACA anti-ship missiles.
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Modular Pods are being developed which can be transfered in 20 ft containers as stand-alone units. During war time they can be put on civilian container ships and controlled remotely using datalinks.
BayarThe Turkish Navy commences sea tests with the CAFRAD Radar System.
It has been tested using the HAVELSAN Combat Management System and SM-1ER Missiles.
Reports suggest that the system was able to lock onto a Greek F16 600km away.
The TF-2000 will most likely either field the SM-3 or an indigenous Aster 30 derivatives.
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Bayar[USER=”4698″]bring_it_on[/USER] When I said Aegis equivalent I meant the Radar and Combat Management Systems.
I do not dispute that in terms of missiles capability the Aegis has much more advanced air defence misiles systems. In fact, prior to the EUROSAM solution Turkey was after the SM-3 for the TF-2000.
The EUROSAM Consortium is seeking to advance its Aster-30 to cover ballistic missiles. It remains to be seen whether they will be successful.
In terms of Radar systems however Turkey was successful in developing a GaN based Active Phased Array Radar system.
Bayar[USER=”4698″]bring_it_on[/USER] They are not my claims but the official statements of the Turkish Naval Command.
Turkey has developed 12 Railgun prototypes thus far. The most promising is prototype 12 which has a 16000 kilo joule (16 mJ) muzzle exit velocity. It can propel 2.5kg- 76mm rounds to ranges of 200km at speeds greater than Mach 8. The current fire rate is 6 rounds per minute.
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As for the missiles to be used in the TF-2000 class: See https://turkishnavy.net/2016/12/05/l…m-for-tf-2000/
As for the program history- the below is a good read…
TF-2000 Program
https://www.globalsecurity.org/milit…cg-tf-2000.htm
In 2010 Turkey revived the ambitious program to build six TF-2000 anti-air warfare frigates to bolster its Navy’s defense capabilities. The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries, Turkey’s defense procurement agency, in early March 2010 collected information from several foreign and domestic companies seeking to take part in the TF-2000 program, which was expected to cost around $3 billion. The program was expected to be completed in 10-12 years and provide the Navy with its next generation frigates. As of 2012 the first ship was planned to enter service in 2018Turkey originally designed the program in the late 1990s, but the 2001 financial crisis then prompted Ankara to shelve it indefinitely. In 2006, Turkey’s top procurement body, the Defense Industry Executive Committee, decided to revive the project and called for the manufacture of six TF-2000 frigates, instead of an earlier-planned eight.
Turkey’s Gölcük military shipyard in the country’s northwest is planned to build the six vessels. They will be equipped with state-of-the-art anti-missile and anti-aircraft air defense missile systems as well as other weapons. Several international ship builders, including Germany’s Blohm + Voss, Norway’s Kongsberg, and Lockheed Martin are said to be interested in this program
The objective is the acquisition of anti-air warfare frigates that will provide survivability in the presence of aerial threat and also support mission functions such as command control and communication, reconnaissance, early warning, surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare and electronic warfare.
The TF-2000 frigate is expected to have a displacement of over 6,000 tons. Naval warfare helicopters and pilot-less aircraft also are planned to take off from the TF-2000s.
The timetable called for completing the design by 2011, with a Batch I contract signed for two vessels in 2014, and commissioning in 2021 and 2022 by one account. The first ship was planned to enter service in 2018, according to another source. Batch II, with three vessels, will proceed from 2023-28. Few details are known about weapons and sensors, but each ship will have 32 VLS cells, a Mk 41 launcher that fires Standard SM-2 and ESSM antiair missiles, two helicopters, a 127-mm. gun, antiship missiles and antisubmarine-warfare torpedoes.
The Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) initiated the TF-2000 Program to meet the Anti-Air Warfare Frigate requirement of Turkish Naval Forces Command. In this regard, Request for Information (RFI) was issued 15 January 2010 by SSM to gather administrative, financial and technical information for the systems from relevant companies/organizations for planning purposes of the Program.
- Directed Infrared Counter Measures
- Electric Generation and Distribution Systems
- Heating Ventilating Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Integrated Platform Management System
- Laser Directed / Kinetic Energy Weapons
- Main Propulsion System
- Naval Gun System
By June 2012 Lockheed Martin was left as the only bidder in the $3 billion project for the joint manufacture of six frigates for the Turkish navy after Ankara rejected the remaining contender BAE Systems’ proposal. BAE had offered the new Type 26 frigate, internationally known as the Global Combat Ship (GCS). But Turkey wants the Turkish company Aselsan’s Multifunctional Phased Array Radar project (ÇAFRAD) to be inserted into the AN/SPY1, Turkish Havelsan’s Genesis to replace Aegis, and this combination to be integrated with the SM3 system. The project may still not be awarded to Lockheed Martin if an agreement cannot be reached on the technical aspects of missile integration. Such an eventuality would cause the project to be shelved and then reshaped. Milgem could be re-designed to manufacture a light frigate for air defense warfare, named TF100.
By the end of 2016 Turkish defense industry was moving towards the future with sure steps. The TF-2000 air defense frigate is the latest addition to these projects. The TF-2000 is a defense against ballistic defects in the air defense giants of the world, with very little in the hands of the world’s superpowers England and France. The TF-2000 is supposed to produce four of the warships. Unit cost is estimated to be 1 billion dollars according to experts’ estimates. The TF-2000 project will house many innovations in the world and give power to the Turkish navy.
TF-2000 project Information Request File was published in May 1996 and Ihaleye Call Dokumani was published in 1998. Target; 6 frigates, a budget of $ 5 billion, and service dates starting in 2004. However, the project was delayed due to the 1999 Golcuk earthquake and the economic crisis afterwards. The number was reduced to 4 by the Defense Industry Executive Committee.
Designed by DZKK.LIGI ARMERKOM Design Office. It was anticipated that design works will end in 2016. The vessels will have a length of 147 meters [480 feet], width: 18 meters, full displacement of 7,000 tons, and a crew of 220. At a price of 1 Billion USD / Number (Estimated), the first TF-2000 will be produced in the shipyard of Istanbul. The next three ships will be produced by private company shipyards. It is anticipated that the TF-2000 frigates will be in Turkish seas in 2020’s years.
BayarThe TF-2000 class Destroyer program is a culmination of several major sub-systems development programs that Turkey has had in the pipeline during the past 10 years. The Radars systems and Command and Control Systems form the backbone of this program.
The TF-2000 Destroyer relies heavily on the following programs:
Korkut-D Undergoing tests on Naval Platforms (Ultra-Low Air Defence System using Air burst munitions)
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Roketsan HISAR Low, Medium and High Altitude Air Defence Missile Systems development
Turkey has succesfully tests the HISAR-A- and HISAR-O (Low and Medium Altitude Air Defence Systems). It is now developing a High Altitude Air Defence System that will draw on from joint programs with EUROSAM (Aster 30) and Russia (S-400).
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France, Italy and Turkey are also working on a 3 country joint next generation Long Range Air and Missile Defence System based on the Aster-30 for ballistic missile threats.
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ASELSAN Tufan Railgun Development
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Scaled-down Prototype Tests
TUBITAK BILGEN Laser Weapons System Development
BayarEach country controls what DATA ALIS can convey back to Fort Worth: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/lockheed-to-build-alis-data-transfer-controls-for-f-451274/
BayarThaw in Relations: U.S Delivers 2 F-35 Jets to Turkey in 2019
https://www.albawaba.com/news/thaw-r…y-2019-1194120Published October 2nd, 2018 – 21:00 GMT via SyndiGate.info
The U.S. will deliver two more F-35 fighter jets to Turkey in 2019, the military head of the F-35 program said Monday. Speaking to reporters in Arlington, Virginia, Vice Admiral Mat Winter, the executive officer for the F-35 program, said he expected the warplanes to be delivered in March. Ankara plans to acquire 100 F-35 fighter jets in the coming years. Winter said he does not “see any indication of a change” in the delivery of Turkey’s 100 jets. “The Pentagon must submit a report to Congress within 90 days of the 2019 Defense Authorization Act being enacted,” he added, referring to an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits F-35 sales to Turkey until the Pentagon issues a report on Turkish-American relations. The F-35, a stealth jet built by Lockheed Martin, is considered one of the most expensive pieces of U.S. military equipment, with an average cost of around $100 million. Winter said his office has provided technical and programmatic information for the report and will submit it within 90 days. Turkey took delivery of its first two F-35 fighter jets in late June at a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. Turkey has been in the F-35 program since 1999. The Turkish defense industry has taken an active role in their production, including Alp Aviation, AYESAS, Kale Aviation, Kale Pratt & Whitney and Turkish Aerospace Industries making parts for the first F-35 fighter jet.
The Turkish Airforce is due to receive a further 2 F-35A’s in 2019 bringing the total number to 6.
BayarThe Turkish Navy is to order 16 F-35B’s for its first Light Aircraft Carrier/LHD- TCG Anadolu, due to be launched in 2019. See http://www.kokpit.aero/deniz-kuvvetleri-f35b-istiyor
Another order for a further batch of 16 F-35B’s will be ordered for the launch of Turkey’s second Light Aircraft Carrier/LHD: TCG Trakya.
Bayarhttps://www.bloomberg.com/businessweek
October 5, 2018, 2:01 PM GMT+10
Lockheed’s F-35 Has a Turkey ProblemCongress could block the sale of fighter jets to Turkey. The only problem? The country manufactures essential parts for the F-35. By Robert Levinson
In August, Congress passed legislation that could block the sale of 100 of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 fighter jets to Turkey because of an agreement the Turks have to buy a Russian air defense system. That’s creating problems. Turkey is a global leader in aerospace manufacturing, and 10 Turkish companies will make about $12 billion worth of parts for the F-35, including key components such as the center fuselage and some landing gear. For certain items, like the cockpit display, Turkey is the only source in the world.
Turkish Aerospace IndustriesTogether with Northrop Grumman, TAI manufactures and assembles the center fuselage, weapons bay doors, and air-to-ground pylons used to carry equipment
Ayesas
Is the sole supplier for two major F-35 components—the missile remote interface unit and the panoramic cockpit display
Kale Aerospace
Manufactures airframe structures and landing gear uplock assemblies
Makes 40 percent of the electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS) for the F135 engine
Alp Aviation
Manufactures airframe structures and assemblies, landing gear components, and more than 100 engine parts for the F135, including titanium integrated blade rotors
A Risk to Supplies?
If the U.S. blocks the jet deal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could cut off the flow of parts from his country. “If the Turkish supply chain was disrupted today, it would result in an aircraft production break, delaying delivery of 50-75 jets and would take approximately 18-24 months to re-source parts,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote in July in a letter to Congress. Erdogan has said little about how he might respond. Mattis must submit a report to Congress by mid-November on the potential impact of any change to Turkey’s participation. Lockheed says for now the sale to the Turks is on track.
Bloomberg reckons Lockheed has a Turkey problem…
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