Posted on 11/25/2022 4:34:01 AM PST by FarCenter
Kizilelma may lift lesser military powers into the realm of robotized air forces that can project power and stage precision strikes
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Aerotime Hub notes that the Kizilelma was first announced in July 2021 as a stealthy unmanned combat aircraft with characteristics akin to manned fighter jets.
It has a maximum takeoff weight of six tons, a 1,500-kilogram payload capacity and can conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. In addition, it is likely to be equipped with various air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions developed by Turkey’s domestic defense industry.
Air Recognition mentions that the Kizilelma features a low radar cross-section (RCS) airframe and is equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. In addition, it achieves yaw control using vertical stabilizers and has coupled canard controls for increased maneuverability or for directing airflow to its main wings.
The same article notes that Kizilelma features an internal weapons bay to preserve stealth while operating in defended airspace.
It is powered by a single Ukrainian non-afterburning Ivchenko-Progress AI-25TLT turbofan engine, giving it a flight range of 930 kilometers, a maximum operating altitude of 10,668 meters, a top speed of 900 kilometers per hour and five-hour flight endurance.
In an article for The Warzone this month, Thomas Newdick mentions that later versions of the Kizilelma will have supersonic flight capability, reduced-observable characteristics and be able to conduct missions typically assigned to manned fighter jets.
He notes that using a drone for air-to-air missions may require advancements in flight software, artificial intelligence, command and control, and processing power that may still be beyond Turkey’s technological capabilities.
Newdick mentions that future versions of the Kizilelma may be powered by the afterburning Ivchenko-Progress AI-322F engine for supersonic flight and that there is a twin-engine variant under development.
The Kizilelma may soon operate as a replacement for the F-35 aboard Turkey’s light aircraft carrier, the TCG Anadolu. In 2017, the US removed Turkey from the F-35 program due to its controversial purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defense systems.
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Under Erdogan, Turkey has developed ambitions to become a major regional power, a force in the Islamic world, and the leader of all Turkic peoples, from the diaspora in Germany to Turkic groups and states in the Caucasus and central Asia. A stealthy drone program would serve those purposes well, but it requires an advanced arms industry. It is not at all clear that Turkey has the economic, industrial, and technical base to carry that off, or the political cohesion for its larger ambitions. Yet even if Turkey fails in all that, its efforts will make for considerable trouble.
Gog and Magog...
Fulfilling God’s word in Ezekiel 38.
...can conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground missions
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This sort of autonomous strike aircraft is emitting a very “Terminator 2” Hunter-Killer aircraft vibe.
Slaughterbots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg
Wow. That was a frightening glimpse of a dystopian future. Hard to say what made the video more chilling, the technology, which seems plausible, or the cooly presented “TED Talk” on the technology.
Reminds me a little bit of the nano-tech warfare and defense systems in the sci-fi novel “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson.
Will Oregon restrictions on high capacity magazines affect these drones?
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Only in Oregon Department of Environmental Quality zones 2 through 93b during some business hours, excluding holidays.
Please to the Master Administrative Rule Compendium (as ammended).
(You will find this on library shelf 7548.31 next to the 'Salmon Fishing Rule Book and Penalty Dictates' section.)
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/Sarc
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(Yes, I lived in Oregon for several years. USED to.)
Even little drones aren’t as cost effective as a virus.
Had an acquaintance that grew up in Cuba and then lived most of her life in Oregon. Gave up her business and moved to Florida during the covid lockdowns. She said Oregon was looking like the communism she had fled.
Oregon used to be a very freedom & liberty-loving place.
Well it still IS - East of the Cascades.
Western Oregon might as well become part of California at this point.
Oregon is an absolutely beautiful state -
And it's a doggone shame the leftists have pretty much taken it over.
Funny how they don’t show it wheels up.
They flip the pic upside down.
I grew up in Oregon and wish I could live there again. Unfortunately Western Oregon is no longer the place I knew.
Still considering Baker City or maybe Grants Pass.
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Shortly after I first moved to Douglass County (decades ago) I went into a
local tavern for a beer.
A guy in the place didn't recognize me - and must have thought
that I looked 'Californian'.
He started hassling me - until I realized that his problem was that
he did indeed, think that I was a recent Cali 'transplant'.
I was offended - and when I yelled: 'I have NEVER lived in California in my LIFE!!!' -
- the attitude of everyone in the place changed - folks were
apologetic that I had been treated badly - and I didn't have
to pay for any of my drinks the rest of the evening. LOL!
I made a few friends that night.
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So yeah - western Oregon was 'Californicated' decades ago.
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