Hi,
Bottomline over here is that this pod is a tremendous achievement by Aselsan.
If you can make a copy of a front line western product and come close to 90-95% of its capabilities---it shows that you have a massive talent and capabilities.
Reverse engineering a western product into a successful end product is an achievement on its own---but to manufacture one of your own is a moment to cherish for a long time.
I am not saying anything against the product or about its originality---but what I am saying is that the Turks must have something in front of them---something in their minds to get to the end product.
My question would be---how did they make those Lenses----that is the most critical part of the equipment---.
MK, in my assessment, ASELPOD is a technology demonstrator and step forward product towards a fully indigenous integrated E/O director for TF/X.
The Turks have it right. They are not only doing ToTs for the Airframe and Engine (BAE and EJ Consortium), they are going after sub-systems cooperation with the various OEMs directly and making in Turkey clause. There is no surprise ASELPOD looks and feels like some of its contemporary rivals.
This is the right way forward which was lost in JF17 and TEJAS. The TF/X will be a lot like EFT under its clothes but there will be a lot of Turkish content. It will take the Turkish aerospace industry to heights others only wish for.
They have not just manufactured it. They have progressed it deep into qualification and characterisation, and have also successfully marketed their capability and plan to a notorious and difficult customer, Pakistan, if that is really the case. This itself is a big feat, and will be big landmark in avionics history.
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At least, We made some progress on discussion and come to a line from "licence built", "Turks tried to make it look like their own" claims to an "impressive Turkish product" "great initiative" that some SRU components brought abroard. I believe If discussion proceeds that way, I believe some "assumptions" will also evolve to other lines cause of "giving Turks opportunity to defend own product with their fighting spirit". Don't burn JP10 on red-deck
You are so sensitive a nit picker, that you are almost funny. Bravo to your continued "analysis" If it makes you feel you won and defeated an old man with your logic and copy paste skills, then i bow to you young man. This kind of critical thinking is what I try to evoke in all young minds of today.
Unlike you, i have seen the ASELPOD, both in lab, and flown with it. Unlike you, I have seen all the other pods as well, including the Litening. And while I cannot show you picture with your president, I am a big fan of your country. What I cannot do is wave anyone's flag and say, this was totally an indigenous product, as I know the origin. Open your mind a little bit, there is nothing wrong for this product to have an origin of world class products. This is no different than the British claiming that they invented the field cannon, while it was the Turkish design they stole from the Ottomans.
BR.
So what you're claiming is that the majority of Aselpod's components are being bought from US/Isreal? And they're just putting them together?
Majority of the components are bought in COTS, for everyone. Even LMCO is not vertically integrated. The lenses for example, there are only two manufacturers for these lenses in the world. The core of this is the real time video processing, tracking, MTI, and clutter handling, as its critical for the fast jet. It is relatively easy for ground, UAV, Transport, and Naval applications, but FJ has its own lunacy of issues.
