Do you really think I am going to belive that Turkey paid Israel 190 million dollars for ten drones Turkey could have made them selves ?
Not Hardly
You don't have to but you need to know that if you talk about things you do not know about be ready to be called out on it.
Here let me try to explain this to you once again.
These drones are a stop gap solution till the Anka comes goes into production. They were ordered years ago and ran into delays (which i explained in another thread to one of your posts)
The drones are built in Israel but do not use their systems. They use turkish ones that are made by Aselsan. This isn't my opinion it is a fact.
In April 2005, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems won an contract to supply medium endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Turkish military.
Turkeys local industry would provide sub-systems and services amounting to 30% of the contract.
The contract is valued at $150 million and each companys share will amount to approximately
$75 million. The contract was signed in May 2005 between Israel UAV Partnership (IUP) and the Turkish MOD is entering into effect now.
The main avionics suite in the
Turkish Heron's is a ASELSAN ASELFLIR-300T which includes a High Resolution Infra Red (IR) Camera, a Laser Rangefinder / Designator (LRF/D), a Laser Spot Tracker (LST), a Color TV Camera and a Color Spotter Camera. The system consists of the following Weapons Replaceable Assemblies (WRAs); Turret Unit (TU), Electronics Unit (EU), Hand Control Unit (HCU), Boresight Module (BSM).
Parameter : ASELFLIR-300T
Thermal Camera FOVs : Wide FOV: 22.5 x 30 degrees (+/-10 percent)
: Medium FOV: 4.8 x 6.4 degrees (+/-10 percent) Narrow FOV: 1.32 x 1.75 degrees (+/-10 percent)
IR Detector : 576 x 7, Focal Plane Array
IR Detection Band : 7.6 -10.5 micrometers
Digital Zoom : 2x or 4x
Video Tracking : Multi Target
Image Resolution : 1440 (H) x 576 (W)
Day-TV Camera FOVs : 40 degrees to 2 degrees (optical continuous) and 12x (digital)
Spotter Camera : Fixed Focal Length, 0.7 x 0.9 degree (+/-10 percent)
Laser Range Finder : Up to 20 km, ± 15 m resolution
Gimbal Field of Regard : Azimuth: 360 degrees continuous
: Elevation: min. 20 degrees up; 105 degrees down
Gimbal Angular Speed : Up to 3 rad/second
Gimbal Angular Position : < 2 mrad (RMS)
Environmental Conditions : MIL-E-5400
Communication Interface : MIL-STD-1553 / RS-422
Video Output : 3 Analog composite (50 Hz) and a Digital output
Cooling / Heating : Internal
Weight : Turret Unit: 93 kg (full configuration)
: Electronic Unit: 23 kg
Dimensions : Turret Unit: 633 mm (height) x 526 mm (diameter)
: Electronic Unit: 315 mm (width) x 470 mm (length) x 255 mm