Turkey test its new naval radar "Çafrad"

[Mucahit]

Turkey might have the No.1 Navy in the middle eastern area but not the No.1 Position when it comes to Air Force or Army.... That belongs to Israel.

Well, Israel has immense US support...Not only does the US give them weapons but they also have joint-defense projects together.

We've managed to get some help from European countries but most help came from the Koreans so far.

 

[UzaySan]

So Turkish F-16 will have local AESA radar upgrade?? Will US allow it? It may be good option for Pakistani F-16s in future.

Turkey have source codes of f16 block 30 and block 40.That means turkey can do whatever it want to do to block30,40 without us permission Like national aesa radar,national AA missiles etc.Remember turkish f16s are using national missiles in operation olive branch.

I dont know if pakistan have sourcecode of f16s.but with little modification turkish aesa radar can be used in jf-17.

Turkey is also working on upgrading f16s and developing mission control computer for f16 along side arsa radar.With brand new turkish avionics f16 block30,40 will be equal block 70

 

[cabatli_53]

So Turkish F-16 will have local AESA radar upgrade?? Will US allow it? It may be good option for Pakistani F-16s in future.

Almost all strategic tools used on big foreign platforms are being replaced with indigenous equivalents. F-16 AESA radar, mission computers, avionics and missiles are just example of this policy. This policy aims to upgrade foreign designed big scale weapons systems continuously to reach own designed big complete products such as Hürjet and TF-X. F-16 like platforms are being used as test-bed for domestic monsters.

This policy works same on naval platforms as well. Radars, command control systems, sonars, missiles, torpedos, Bridge Resourses management systems, countermeasure systems, stabilized guns, anti-aircraft systems all are being replaced with domestic equivalents on US ex Perry and German Meko frigates.

The all modules, electronics, softwares of Smart-S radars are being developed by Aselsan so Turkish Army considers Aselsan produced Smart radars as domestic since ahe has different performance parameters than original Smart radars Thales produces. Thales even make a deal with Aselsan to export their own radars with Aselsan T/R modules. This radar is integrated on Meko and Gabya class frigates along with Milgem corvettes.

but the king of the radar systems on Naval platforms to be integrated on Tf-2000 destroyers. Çagrad will have following assets on same mast;

• S band long range UMR surveillance radar 500km
• X band Multi purpose ÇFR surveillance radar 150km
• X band Illumination radar AYR 150km
• Non-rotation national IFF sytem 500km
• Electronic warfare sensors/systems ARES
• Communication and E/O sensors

Turkish Navy placed an order for new Aselsan radar called MAR-D to replace MW-08 radar on Kılıç -I/II FAC and DA-08 radar on Yavuz Class. According to deal, 25 Mar-D radars will be delivered to Navy. Original MAR radars are the main search radar of Hisar-A low altitude SAM missile system of Land Forces.

Fire control radar family called AKR working on different bandwidth are developed. All have a place on different platforms having variety of range requirements from CIWS to Frigate long range engagement.

Kalkan-II will be the main surveillance radar of Hisar-O SAM systems. The trials of this radar is being proceeded in field. ÇAFRAD ÇFR radar could be a derivative of Kalkan-II radar system.

Coastal surveillnce is a serious issue so Aselsan has developed superior coastal watch radar family called Serdar. The latest variant of Serdar called Serdar-7M is developed successfully. Deliveries of Serdar-4M/7M is completed under the Yunus project.

Alper is a proven military level LPI navigation radar used on Milgem corvettes.

Dalyan is developed to be LPI navigation radar of submarines.

 

[T-Rex]

Aselsan,Turkeys one of the best defence company test its indigenous naval radar "Çafrad".


Fist time we saw Çafrad in Idef 2015

then Idef 2017

And This is first prototype

Çafrad has 450km range and it can track more than 2000 targets at the same time

Çafrad will be used TF-2000 class air defence destroyers.

Four TF-2000 destroyer is enough to protect all turkish airspace.

With this project turkish navy will be much more powerful.And it will protect its number one position in region.

Importance of this project will be seen in east mediterranean a few years later

Congratulations to our Turkish brothers! They must keep up the good work and inshallah in the next five years Turkey will be not only self-sufficient in defence but also be able to significantly assist stricken Muslim states from the so-called super bullies.

 

[EpiiC]

Give it 10 years and they are no match if we progres like this, we will be self sufficient with top of the ice products. We will even match with a lot of systems against big companies. By the way our airforce is not bad when it comes against Israel.

We must not be biased I said Turkey has better navy.... But army and air force Israel best in the region as of this moment. I may give the edge to Turkey in the future if they have double the number of F-35s as Israel has.....

 

[Timur]

We must not be biased I said Turkey has better navy.... But army and air force Israel best in the region as of this moment. I may give the edge to Turkey in the future if they have double the number of F-35s as Israel has.....

maybe you should write it different than.. it sounded harsh... its sounds like the airforce of turkey is like some banana republic airforce

if you say not the best air force thats correct, but no one would want to mess around with turkish airforce in the ME the only thing we should have had 15 years ago was arond 50 f15 and a handfull A10 but over 200 F16 is something serious specially if you have your own non limeted fireworks to shoot at your enemy..

 

[EpiiC]

maybe you should write it different than.. it sounded harsh... its sounds like the airforce of turkey is like some banana republic airforce

if you say not the best air force thats correct, but no one would want to mess around with turkish airforce in the ME the only thing we should have had 15 years ago was arond 50 f15 and a handfull A10 but over 200 F16 is something serious specially if you have your own non limeted fireworks to shoot at your enemy..

Honestly 200 F-16 not impressive anymore..... F-16 have huge radar cross section.... Even Russian can detect it from 100+ miles away. 100+ F-35s in Turkey more impressive...

 

[Timur]

Honestly 200 F-16 not impressive anymore..... F-16 have huge radar cross section.... Even Russian can detect it from 100+ miles away. 100+ F-35s in Turkey more impressive...

for whom? who says its not impressive? no one except US has a serious amount of stealth fighter/bomber, the fighters will come in the near future for turkey and until then everyone with a serious air force will have something similar..

only countries who are sattelite states of US like israel will get some to play around and to test it.. but the F35 will evolve and some bugs and errors will be cleaned and than you will see it entering many airforces..

I mean what would you say to chinese air force? no sane person would want to mess with them around.. and they have also old school "non stealth design" fighters in their inventory the newer stealth ones will take some time

and if your target is standing against US airforce than you lost it.. not even the russians can stand against the US air force.. even turkey israel and russia together have no airforce wich you can compare with US airforce

 

[Khagan1923]

Why do you people need to bring in other countries everytime the topic is Turkey? Are you this butthurt that you have to compare other countries to us always? The topic are new radars for the Turkish Navy and some butthurt monkey brings in Israel without any context.

 

[Sinnerman108]

The greatest lesson here is the fact that Turkey has established a defense production base.

Once the industry is in place, and the economics are set right, then great things happen.
Turkey is making great progress, in terms of missiles, radars and most of all aircraft systems and sensor technology.

Best of Luck and keep moving forward.

 

[Kamil_baku]

So Turkish F-16 will have local AESA radar upgrade?? Will US allow it? It may be good option for Pakistani F-16s in future.

actually mentioned it years ago. Another reason that Pakistan chosed Turkey for upgrades because in case of US doesnt sell AESA radar(very unlikely even to Turkey) or air to air missiles(Like they dont sell medium or long range aa missiles to EGypt), Turkey can support Pakistan with those technologies...

Another factor prove it that this year USA accepted to upgrade Greek air force f16 with AESA radar. They see it coming on Turkish side...

We must not be biased I said Turkey has better navy.... But army and air force Israel best in the region as of this moment. I may give the edge to Turkey in the future if they have double the number of F-35s as Israel has.....

Let me tell you why Israel afraid of Turkey and why they are in danger against a country like Turkey in case of war even though Their air force look big.
1) They have very little area as if Turkey start to strike Israeli airports with Khan ballistic missiles, plus attack with EW systems like KORAL to blind those radars, also attack with ATMACA from submarines and navy which is way stronger than ISraeli one, Those air planes cannot go up to the air.. or if they go up, They cannot land..
2) you mentioned that Israeli army is stronger.. Do you even know the population difference?
WHat Israel has in Army that Turkey doesnt? In case Turkey attack with army and pound all those AIrports i mentioned above with Artillary, atack UAVs, ISrael has no chance to stop... If they could give ground forces, They could enter in ISrael since beginning.. They couldnt even defeat Lebanon and got out of ammunition within days and begged to US to deliver it asap...
Israel is good at attack and run away with AIR force, But, its not gonna work with Turkey...

on the other hand, Turkey will have its own long range or air to air missiles(2019-2020) and AESA(2021) radar, why i mention air to air missiles? because they can fire from long range multiple missiles and dont care about their inventory as it will be supplied locally, and give huge headache before even ISraeli arrive...If Turkey block ISrael with Navy, Israel will not have ammunition support...

i just wanted you to realize in case of real war...

 

[Kamil_baku]

On the other hand, Turkey has 4 peace eagles which can Track 1000 targets at the same time and can see 400 forward air force targets and 600km ground forces...
With Turkish made network enabled weapons Turkish f16s can fire many of its long range missiles from far away as they will use of those peace eagle AESA radar to shoot.

 

[cabatli_53]

Did you know;

Turkey will be around a few nation which is able to develop/produce/integrate following strategic assets to construct one of the best destroyer sized naval ships called TF-2000 which will provide deterrance enough to protect national interests in Turkish seas.

• Domestic GaN based radars into own developed command control network called “Genesis AdVent”. GaN chips and modules are being produced by AB mikronano institute which is JV of Aselsan and Bilkent.
• Domestically developed vertical launch system will host national air defence missile system from low, medium altitude to long altitude which is called as “Hisar-Naval” on naval platforms.
• Vertical launch system will fire not only SAM missiles, but also Tomahawk equivalent land attack cruise missile called “Gezgin” which is designed to reach 800km for Blk1 variant and 1400km for Blk2 variant.
• A national surface to surface missile called “Atmaca” which is considered superior to US Harpoon missiles will be the main striking asset controlled by national combat management system.
• National active/passive sonar family called “Yakamos” have different variants as Blk 1,2,3 and L integrated/to be integrated on different naval surface combatant to meet different frequency requirements. A new fiber optic sonar is also being developed right now. High performance transducers and hydrophones of national sonars are also developed domestically.
• Electronic attack/support counter measure sensor/devices on surface ships called Ares-2N/NS is a proven system used on Turkish warships which is able to provide a safe zone with powerfull counter measure jamming tactics against aircrafts/missiles...etc thanks to new developed phased array type sensors on devices.
• Torpedo active/passive counter measure systems on surface ships/towed LFAS(low frequency active sonar) system called “Hızır” to detect coming torpedos and anti-torpedo torpedo system called “Tork” engaging coming torpedos with a counter-torpedo systems.
• Close in weapon system to engage fast moving missiles posing serious threat on warzone is in its trial phase. The name of system is Korkut-D, twin 35mm gun firing AHEAD munition called ATOM/PARM developed by Aselsan.
• An utility helicopter called T-625 having a weight of 6 ton will make its maiden flight in this year. Naval variant of this copter will be deployed to naval frigates/LHD’s. From turboshaft engine to avionics will be domestically developed.
• A naval helicopter to ship missile having a range of Blk1:18km, Blk2:30km is being developed to replace Hellfire/Penguin missiles in TN inventory. Principle of new missile is to engage moving platforms while staying out of RAM missile range. The project name is “Temren” and first firing trials have been done from TN seahawk helicopters succesfully.
• A national rolling airframe missile to provide effective protection for Navy surface ships at close ranges called “Sapan” is being developed at present. It is expected to see some firing images in those years.

While S.Korea, Norway, Spain, Australia, Japan like states are purchasing US Aegis combat management system/missiles, Turkey is designing/developing/producing devices/missiles/sensors to equip own destroyer sized ships with purely national assets listed above.

That’s a real proud story of our engineers and workers in this field. More than 200 institutes with thousands of people are working on those projects make Turkish industry to join into elite club equipping own navy from top to down with domestic superior systems.

 

[-------]

Give it 10 years and they are no match if we progres like this, we will be self sufficient with top of the ice products. We will even match with a lot of systems against big companies. By the way our airforce is not bad when it comes against Israel.

God knows we have had courageous and talented people who have extended ladder of progress for Turkey and we have had traitorous scum who have tipped the ladder over many times.

Did you know;

Turkey will be around a few nation which is able to develop/produce/integrate following strategic assets to construct one of the best destroyer sized naval ships called TF-2000 which will provide deterrance enough to protect national interests in Turkish seas.

• Domestic GaN based radars into own developed command control network called “Genesis AdVent”. GaN chips and modules are being produced by AB mikronano institute which is JV of Aselsan and Bilkent.
• Domestically developed vertical launch system will host national air defence missile system from low, medium altitude to long altitude which is called as “Hisar-Naval” on naval platforms.
• Vertical launch system will fire not only SAM missiles, but also Tomahawk equivalent land attack cruise missile called “Gezgin” which is designed to reach 800km for Blk1 variant and 1400km for Blk2 variant.
• A national surface to surface missile called “Atmaca” which is considered superior to US Harpoon missiles will be the main striking asset controlled by national combat management system.
• National active/passive sonar family called “Yakamos” have different variants as Blk 1,2,3 and L integrated/to be integrated on different naval surface combatant to meet different frequency requirements. A new fiber optic sonar is also being developed right now. High performance transducers and hydrophones of national sonars are also developed domestically.
• Electronic attack/support counter measure sensor/devices on surface ships called Ares-2N/NS is a proven system used on Turkish warships which is able to provide a safe zone with powerfull counter measure jamming tactics against aircrafts/missiles...etc thanks to new developed phased array type sensors on devices.
• Torpedo active/passive counter measure systems on surface ships/towed LFAS(low frequency active sonar) system called “Hızır” to detect coming torpedos and anti-torpedo torpedo system called “Tork” engaging coming torpedos with a counter-torpedo systems.
• Close in weapon system to engage fast moving missiles posing serious threat on warzone is in its trial phase. The name of system is Korkut-D, twin 35mm gun firing AHEAD munition called ATOM/PARM developed by Aselsan.
• An utility helicopter called T-625 having a weight of 6 ton will make its maiden flight in this year. Naval variant of this copter will be deployed to naval frigates/LHD’s. From turboshaft engine to avionics will be domestically developed.
• A naval helicopter to ship missile having a range of Blk1:18km, Blk2:30km is being developed to replace Hellfire/Penguin missiles in TN inventory. Principle of new missile is to engage moving platforms while staying out of RAM missile range. The project name is “Temren” and first firing trials have been done from TN seahawk helicopters succesfully.
• A national rolling airframe missile to provide effective protection for Navy surface ships at close ranges called “Sapan” is being developed at present. It is expected to see some firing images in those years.

While S.Korea, Norway, Spain, Australia, Japan like states are purchasing US Aegis combat management system/missiles, Turkey is designing/developing/producing devices/missiles/sensors to equip own destroyer sized ships with purely national assets listed above.

That’s a real proud story of our engineers and workers in this field. More than 200 institutes with thousands of people are working on those projects make Turkish industry to join into elite club equipping own navy from top to down with domestic superior systems.

And that's just radars and sonars, don't get @cabatli_53 started on thermal detectors!

 

[Cookie Monster]

This long range radar can help PN for the long range missiles they've been testing like Harba and Babur