Turkey reveals new Railgun

[UzaySan]

Turkish company YET(Directed Energy Systems and Technologies), continues to improve its railgun. The newest version of their electromagnetic railgun systems: ŞAHİ209 - Block II has 50 kilometres range with 10 megajoule pulsed DC power supply.

For comparision

First version of railgun

https://twitter.com/x/status/1111983922739580929

And all this development completed only in 8 months. Turkish engineers are teaching everyone a lesson

 

[Khafee]

Congratulations

Extremely Happy to hear this

 

[BHarwana]

tebrikler brothers.

 

[Fawadqasim1]

excellent brothers

 

[Murgah]

Masha Allah

 

[Fawad alam]

Masha Allah, very good.

 

[MMM-E]

SAHI-209 Block III ( planned )

Power : 25 megajoule
Armament : 40 mm
Barrel length : 9 m
Speed : mach 6
Range : 80 km



SAHI-209 Block IV ( planned )

Power : 50 megajoule
Armament : 56 mm
Barrel length : 10 m
Speed : mach 8
Range : 120 km



SAHI-209 Block V ( planned )

Power : 100 megajoule
Armament : 76 mm
Barrel length : 12 m
Speed : mach 8
Range : 200 km

 

[cabatli_53]

It is aselsan’s turn now. Aselsan with Tufan railgun broke a record with 3000m/sn muzzle velocity. New variants will be more effective features indeed.

 

[Wow]

so proud of turkey

 

[MMM-E]

SAHI-209 Block I



SAHI-209 Block II

 

[Crystal-Clear]

congratulations

 

[Nefarious]

Nice, are they working on lasers to?

 

[UzaySan]

Nice, are they working on lasers to?

Yes. Turkey actively working on laser weapons. You can find more info here : https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/turkish-directed-energy-weapons.564934/

 

[UzaySan]

Latest test video of aselsan railgun system. Turkey has 3 different railgun development project and this is one of them

https://twitter.com/x/status/1119204406610857985