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Maybe because our own solutions don't have as wide a FOV as FLIR. ASELFLIR 400 has max 27° FOV compared to 40° of Star Safire 380 HD. For an air defence system, larger FOV would be preferable.

You said Aselflir is state of the art.
 
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Guys lets be little more logical here, STAR SAFIRE 380 is far too expensive to be used on the likes of such land vehicles. Roketsan used the same E/O to showcase it's prototype Pedestal Mounted Cirit then it was swapped out for an E/O more suitable.

It's very likely we won't see this weapon-platform ever again. Aselsan will likely develop a weapon-platform and integrate into HERIKKS.
 
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You said Aselflir is state of the art.

Aselflir is an 8-12μm (partial 3-5μm) second-generation FLIR. It is old. Star Safire is a 3-5μm third-generation system, thus it is better. Unfortunately, Aselsan couldn't make a full 3-5μm system (CATS), the main reason being the CATS uses "Common Aperture" technology. I hope they will manage the DASS which uses "Distributed Aperture" technology. In short, it literally is about the lenses.
 
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Is name SUNGUR related to Ertugrul ???? Please tell me it isn't
 
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We give predatory bird names to all our air to air missiles and air defence missiles.

In fact, it's time to move to a coding standard for defense industry products. Just like Americans and Russians and Chinese do.

Names are getting confused now. Thinks got ridiculous. :)
 
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We need a spreadsheet of all the products and names, it's getting confusing to keep up.
 
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So in a very short time (a couple of months)

We have introduced indigenous AD missiles to our inventory:
- VSHORAD manpads (sungur) (PORSAV project)
- SHORAD AD (Hisar-A) (IRIS-T SLS equivalent)
- Medium AD (Hisar - O) (IRIS-T SLM equivalent)

- long range (Hisar - U under development)


Missiles in development Sea based AD:
- G40 (ESSM equivalent)

AA missiles in development:
- Bozdogan (falcon colubarius) shortrange (AiM-9 equivalent)
- Gokdogan (falcon perigrine) medium range (AIM-120C equivalent)
- Akdogan (falcon rusticolus) (long range?) (I'm guessing here AIM-120D equivalent?)


And than we will have some NASAM's like configurations with AA missiles in AD role


future developments we need:
- AIM-260, Meteor like extended long range missiles with Ramjet
 
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