Turkey’s air-launched cruise missile ‘almost ready’

It has been recently unveiled that SSM, Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defence Industries, has awarded TUBITAK-SAGE a major contract for the development of Turkey’s first medium range high precision cruise missile program.

TUBITAK-SAGE has been working on the new-generation indigenous cruise missile since 2006, TRDEFENCE sources reported on Thursday. This new crusine missile, name still unknown, is now nearing the end of its development stage and is expected to make its initial debut in Turkey’s largest defence and aerospace fair IDEF 2011, taking place between May 10 and 13.

The cruise missile is designed for air-lunch from Turkey’s upgraded F-4 2020 Terminator aircraft and have a range of over 150 kilometers. Guidance will be provided by GPS and on-board INS, while terminal-stage homing will be accomplished with an advanced Aselsan-built infrared imaging kit for increased precision.
Roketsan is known to be manufacturing the engine assembly in cooperation with TEI, a number of actuators, as well as the warhead of the missile.

http://www.trdefence.com/2011/02/04/turkeys-new-air-launched-cruise-missile-almost-ready/

Apart from 9/11 they seemed to have forgotten 7/7, the Madrid bombings, the Bali bombings and god knows what else!

Including the murder of approx 30,000 inocent Pakistanis he is meant to be complicit in, not to mention the other horrific acts of terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc etc… People tend to forget that Al Qaeda and it’s franchises have been responsible for killing an aweful lot of Muslims.

Good riddance to Bin Ladan and all he stood for!

I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who disagrees with this view, especially in most Muslims countries. Even in Pakistan, where people assume OBL and his twisted ideology has widespread support, there have been very small and muted demos/protests against his killing, and even then by fringe crackpot religious groups.

On a side note; I think he should have been captured alive and imprisoned, killing him simply gave him what he wanted; so called ‘martyredom’. It would have been way more humiliating for him to be stuck behind bars like a rat.

Just a thought…If the Pakistani army and ISI (you can forget about the ‘government’), really knew about OBL and were actively sheltering him in a ‘safe house’…why, then, would they provide the US with a potential lead that would eventually result in his killing? Both the US and Pakistan are claiming that the lead, i.e. the identification of OBL’s courier, was initially provided by the ISI, amongst many hundreds, if not thousands of such leads that most turn out to be nothing.