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Turkish Unmanned Vehicle Programs

It's like so many other things mate, if you have a small IT concept that gets the attention of big IT firms, or Cellphone companies, they show interest and eventually buy either the concept, or become a sponsor /co-owner.

I don't see why defense sector should be any different :)
But it's not the same. They are not acquiring the Kartal firm, or buying the rights of the drone.

They are buying a number of systems for the homeland defense. ( anayurt güvenliği kapsamında “Vurucu İnsansız Hava Aracı Tedariği”) Since, the end user will be Turkish Armed Forces why Kartal not selling it's drones directly to army ?

Bu STM ne ayak bir firmadır hala anlamadım gitti zaten.
 
Anyone heard of Vestel EFE II?
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Drone wars: Turkey ups homegrown options
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ANKARA, Turkey — The growing asymmetrical threats on both sides of Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq have compelled the country’s military, procurement and industry officials to step up efforts to boost new drone programs, even as allies continue to hold back on support.

Perhaps one of the most telling signs of progress is completion of the development phase of a program to build the country’s first drone engine.

Officials with Turkey’s national engine maker, Tusas Engine Industries say the PD170 engine has successfully gone through initial tests, meeting all performance criteria. Nearly five years in the making, TEI has been working on the PD170 since December 2012 when it signed a development contract with Turkey’s procurement authority, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries, or SSM. The 2.1-liter turbo-diesel PD170 can produce 170 horsepower at 20,000 feet, and 130 horsepower at 30,000 feet. It can generate power at a maximum altitude of 40,000 feet.




Turkey Looks to Enrich Drone Fleet
Facing multiple asymmetrical security threats, Turkey increasingly relies on a strategy to enrich its inventory of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) types. Most recently, Turkey’s procurement agency released two requests for information (RFI) to task industry with research on two new types of drones.

By: Burak Ege Bekdil
The PD170 was designed for the Anka, Turkey’s first indigenous medium-altitude, long-endurance drone.

TEI officials said the first PD170 would soon be delivered to Turkish Aerospace Industries. The engine’s “maturity tests” are ongoing, and TEI hopes to win certification for the engine in 2018.

The ‘brave man’ and the ‘falcon’

Meanwhile, government-owned defense technologies company STM says it started a mass production program for a series of new drones with high-tech capabilities. These drones will be used by the Turkish military for anti-terrorism operations in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast where fighting between the government and Kurdish insurgency has claimed more than 40,000 lives since 1984.

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SSM’s chief, Undersecretary Ismail Demir, said now under mass production are what officials dub “kamikaze drones.” The first deliveries to the Turkish military would begin later this year. The “autonomous kamikaze drones” have a strike-and-hit capability. They are equipped with artificial intelligence algorithms for monitoring.

One of the drones is the Alpagu, or “brave man” in ancient Turkic languages. The Alpagu can be manually or autonomously operated, has fixed wings and can be launched from a lancer. It can be made ready for launch within 45 seconds.

The Togan, translated to “falcon” in ancient Turkish, was developed for monitoring purposes and uses AI algorithms. STM officials say the Togan features fairly high-optical zooming capabilities and high-flight performance.

The Turkish military will operate the Togan alongside the Alpagu and the Kargu, another kamikaze drone.

Homeland security and industry response

Turkey’s military and procurement officials have increasingly relied on various drone systems, most notably to boost the country’s asymmetrical fight against Kurdish insurgents and hostile Islamic groups fighting in the Syrian civil war. A two-year cease-fire with the Kurdish insurgents ended in July 2015, and thousands have died since in a renewed cycle of violence.


Turkey gets additional drones to fight ISIS, Kurds
Kale-Baykar, a privately owned Turkish venture specialized in drones, has delivered a batch of six armed drones to the Turkish military.

By: Burak Ege Bekdil
“There is increasing appetite from the end user [the military] for drone systems and subsystems of all possible types,” an STM official said. “Not just our company, but the whole industry is working on various programs.”

The local industry is thriving to cope with the demand. In March, Kale-Baykar, a privately owned Turkish venture, delivered a batch of six armed drones to the Turkish military. The Bayraktar TB2 drone would be stationed in Elazig close to the Kurdish insurgency zones. Turkey tested the Bayraktar last year. The drone successfully hit a target at the Konya fire test field in central Anatolia from a distance of 8 kilometers. The Bayraktar uses the MAM-L and MAM-C, both miniature smart munitions developed and produced by Roketsan.


Going it alone: Turkey staunch in efforts for self-sufficient defense capabilities
The country is aiming to achieve near-full self-sufficiency in line with its regional and global ambitions for more political clout. But some of its indigenous programs may prove overly ambitious.

By: Burak Ege Bekdil
Turkey’s local industry is also developing the BSI-101 — a system for signals intelligence — for the Bayraktar to put an end to Turkey’s dependence on U.S.-made sigint systems for drones. The Bayraktar can fly at a maximum altitude of 24,000 feet. Its communications range is 150 kilometers. The aircraft can carry up to 55 kilograms of payload.

Further enhancing capabilities, Meteksan Savunma, a privately owned Turkish defense company, said it successfully developed the country’s first indigenous automatic takeoff and landing, or ATOL, system for drones. The company said the system (OKIS in its Turkish acronym) aims to replace imported ATOL systems currently used in Turkish-made drones.

At the end of June, SSM released a request for information for a new program for the purchase of a drone system able to take aerial photography. SSM said the competition would only be open to local producers. That same month, SSM released another RFI for the acquisition of a ship-based vertical takeoff and landing drone system.


Source: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2017/11/03/drone-wars-turkey-ups-homegrown-options/
 
Yay, 50 Bokdil articles.

There he goes calling the PKK "Kurds" again. I wonder what would happen if a journalist pulled the same sh1t with ISIS and instead of saying "ISIS" they said "Muslims"?

If that piece of sh1t ever sets foot on Turkish soil again he should be locked up.
 
Yay, 50 Bokdil articles.

There he goes calling the PKK "Kurds" again. I wonder what would happen if a journalist pulled the same sh1t with ISIS and instead of saying "ISIS" they said "Muslims"?

If that piece of sh1t ever sets foot on Turkish soil again he should be locked up.
The guy is just another hired pen that signs his masters' pre-paid articles. Real journalism is dead in the US.
 
Alpagu gets lots of publicity all over the place, however kargu not so much.
So I thought to share this video (even if it was shared before, there maybe people who haven't seen it yet)
 
Yay, 50 Bokdil articles.

There he goes calling the PKK "Kurds" again. I wonder what would happen if a journalist pulled the same sh1t with ISIS and instead of saying "ISIS" they said "Muslims"?

If that piece of sh1t ever sets foot on Turkish soil again he should be locked up.
It's sycophancy. Western editors and "experts" on Turkey like to conflate the PKK with the Kurdish people so they can narrate Turkey's war on the PKK network as Turkeys war on "the Kurds". This this offensive to the majority of Kurds who don't relate to the PKK's quasi nationalist, quasi communist, quasi cult of personality fetishisation which they push. It's also very misleading and mischievous.
They never frame Britains war on the IRA as a war against the Irish, or Frances war against ETA as a war on the Basque. But English-language Turkish journalists have this pressure to speak in these generic terms to portray Turkey as an ethnic nationalist state. As Turks they should know how absurd that is but that's how it is.
One of the worst for it is a journalist called Amberin Zaman. She's generally a good journalist but has this same problem of conflating pro Kurdish groups with Kurdish people.
When the general election was held in Turkey when the HDP were doing well, she continuously tweeted about the successes of the "Kurds" when what she meant was the HDP.
It got so bad that the HDP english account on twitter had to tweet her and ask her to stop doing that since they were trying to run on a platform of representing all the minorities in Turkey and the social democrats. To do that they needed ethnic Turk votes and her calling them "the Kurds" didn't reflect that objective.

Of course we can laugh at how stupid this is but it's quite tragic that Turks are complying with these anti Turkish narrative whether they know what they are doing or not.

Best thing to do is just politely correct or inform each other when we fall into the trap. I've noticed well meaning Turks themselves can switch between PKK and Kurds.
 
It's sycophancy. Western editors and "experts" on Turkey like to conflate the PKK with the Kurdish people so they can narrate Turkey's war on the PKK network as Turkeys war on "the Kurds". This this offensive to the majority of Kurds who don't relate to the PKK's quasi nationalist, quasi communist, quasi cult of personality fetishisation which they push. It's also very misleading and mischievous.
They never frame Britains war on the IRA as a war against the Irish, or Frances war against ETA as a war on the Basque. But English-language Turkish journalists have this pressure to speak in these generic terms to portray Turkey as an ethnic nationalist state. As Turks they should know how absurd that is but that's how it is.
One of the worst for it is a journalist called Amberin Zaman. She's generally a good journalist but has this same problem of conflating pro Kurdish groups with Kurdish people.
When the general election was held in Turkey when the HDP were doing well, she continuously tweeted about the successes of the "Kurds" when what she meant was the HDP.
It got so bad that the HDP english account on twitter had to tweet her and ask her to stop doing that since they were trying to run on a platform of representing all the minorities in Turkey and the social democrats. To do that they needed ethnic Turk votes and her calling them "the Kurds" didn't reflect that objective.

Of course we can laugh at how stupid this is but it's quite tragic that Turks are complying with these anti Turkish narrative whether they know what they are doing or not.

Best thing to do is just politely correct or inform each other when we fall into the trap. I've noticed well meaning Turks themselves can switch between PKK and Kurds.
Well sad

However wrong blog
 
Yes a good marketing but is it true that the new 10t helicopter will be equipped with the Turkish 1400 hp engines? That’s not much power for a 10t class helicopter? Or will they use 3 of those engines a la EH101?
 

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