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Long Range Cruise Missiles which everycountry can produce are converted from retired fighters or used with old turbojet engines.

Who dont want to have missiles with 2000km for a few costs?

China converted retired J-5 fighters to cruise missile with range 2000km.
Also they converted J-6 fighters to UAV. It costs only 700-000yuan.

AS HIGHLIGHTED ON THIS SITE AS A THREAT FOR YEARS: CHINA’S CONVERTED SURPLUS FIGHTER DRONE FORCE EYEBALLED FROM SPACE | AviationIntel.com
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The USA converts retired F-16,F-14 to drone QF16 and QF4 which are ground attack capable with HARM missiles.

Which SAM sytems can stopped remote controlled F-4 with HARM missiles.
The USAF can control six QF-4 at the same time by computers. You dont need high level fighter pilots.
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For the Turkish Army ideal candidate is QF-100 super sabre which TurAF still reserved 100's.


If we convert these 100p. retired f100s to cruise missile, we will have 100 cruise missiles with range 2000km no spending billion dollars.



Retired Cruise Missiles
If today somecountry had a retired cruise missile of the USA, The country could be reel threat for a lot of others.
I think producing these missile not sensible but convert old planes to cruise missiles more efficient.
Retired fighter engines might be used for the long range missile.



For example
MGM-13 MACE
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This missile has turbojet engine 24kn which used in the fplanes:
Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
Lockheed F-94A/B Starfire


It has terrain radar, internal navigator, range 2000km weight 8ton.
And Jet Assisted Take Off gives opportunties for quick attacks.


will be continued....

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Dear @Hurshid Celebi I am glad to see you here.
Why do we need converted missiles? and UAV's
1) We have a lot of retired fighters which we dont have to pay are still able to fly for many hours.(The main word)
2) Converting process isnt diffucult andexpensive for Turkey has a TAI and ASELSAN. Turkey can remote control ANKA UAV. It would be great experience for stealth future projects.
2) We needs weapons are capable to hit at the long range because objects of enemies are so far. We dont have anything to hit at the range 3000km.

3) We mustnt send,spend and sucrifice our pilots, fighters and expensive weaopons at the first stage of war.
Remember that The old Katyusha's can even make the SAM bateries.
If you attack the enemy SAM using cheap artilerry rocket like a GRAD or KASIRGA, How would be enemy reaction?
Would they try the hit and stop artillery rockets cost 1000$ spending very expensive SAM missiles?
Here is the main idea.
Converted F100;s would be your cheap artillery rockets has 3000 range and accuracy.
How many million dollars does fighter pilot cost? How long does pilot training takes?
How many pilots can you sucrifice for your enemies?

3) If this MGM-13 isnt modern and usefull , The Turkish SOM and the American Tomahawk also usleess.
Old cruise missiles are olso able to hie themselves from radars using geographical terrians.
Even though we TAI has ANKA UAV, they can use avionic and control units.
The USA converts f-4 to QF-4 drone for $750K. It is not expensive for a Drone with range 3000km and A-G ,A-A capabilty.
I expect TAI or ASELSAN can produce 3 time less cheap .
China has converted their old J-6 for $20 or $30K.
Why dont we have our long range missiles which are still nightmare for many countries for 20.000$?


200 converted Qf100 super sabre UAV or Cruise Nissile enough to solve some diplomatic crizes.
Converted UAV or Missiles are JATO(Rocket Assisted Take Off)dont need airport and fast.





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If we compare Sabre with MGM-13 missile:
MGM-13 SAGE's engine 24kn, Sabre's engine56kn with afterburner 70kn.
MGM-13 range 2000km, Sabre's max range 3000km.
MGM-13 weight 8000kg, Sabre loaded 15.000 kg
MGM-13 warhead 1.1mt nuclear ,Sabre has payload 3000kg.
MGM-13 has (Automatic Terrain Recognition And Navigation),Sabre: low altitude warning system
 
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SSM-N-9 Regulus II

has the F-4 Phantom engine
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Speed M 2.0
Range 2000km

Weight 10,000 kg
Length 17.53 m
Diameter 1.3 m

Engine 1x General Electric J79-GE-3 turbojet TurAF have and know verwell.
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1x Rocketdyne solid-fueled rocket

If someone told me producing these missiles would expensive and diifucult, i couldnt believe. I am sorry.
This is just old turbojet engine TurAF knows very well and some avionics TAI has!!
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@Hurshid Celebi
I am going to work for this topic. I will try to tag more members here. How can I find list of active members?
Tag list I need.





Another surprize
Syria converts combat aircraft to WMD-armed drones
A Syrian MiG-21, flown into Jordan last June by a Syrian air force colonel, had been upgraded to fly without a pilot and to carry chemical weapons • U.S. experts who examined the plane and questioned the pilot believe Russian engineers helped with thhttp://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=6845e upgrade.

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163576#.VtmFnPc2UoQ



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It seems our neighboor has alredy converted.


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The TurAF F100 Super Sabres .
If they had been converted,if they were the missiles , today they would look worse?
When I saw the Syrian old MIG , i was sad.
Why we are so confident?
Couldnt they convert to UAV Drone? Why did they throw?

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The logic of the cruise missile as same as of the bombers. There is only a different , cruise missiles are unmanned.

I noticed that today" we have been talking about new term, new phrase".
The term of "UAV" or "Cruise missile" cant expresse this stituation.
This is absolutly new term, may be we are talking about " Kamikaze Robots " or "Drone Kamikaze".
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F-15 A remote controlled.
 
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Operation Aphrodite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boeing BQ-7 Aphrodite
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In 1944 the USAAF intended to convert some worn-out Consolidated B-24D/J Liberator bombers to BQ-8 radio-controlled assault drones for use against heavily defended targets on Japanese islands in the Pacific. The concept was the same as used for the B-17 Flying Fortress conversions in the BQ-7 Aphrodite project. The BQ-8 would take off with two crew, who would then climb to cruise altitude, arm the fuzes, hand the plane over to remote control from an accompanying director aircraft, and bail out. The payload of the BQ-8 consisted of about 11300 kg (25000 lb) of Torpex high-explosive. It is unknown, how many B-24s were actually converted to BQ-8 drones, and the USAAF never flew an operational BQ-8 mission.
Consolidated BQ-8
 
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