In Turkey, conducted tests of their own railgun
The other day in Turkey passed the test railgun (Railgun). The country is preparing for field trials weaponsbuilt on new physical principles, in particular on his twitter wrote a doctor of technical sciences, Turkish professor Ismail Demir. Recently, a resurgent interest in such weapons has been noted all over the world, which should lead to results sooner or later. Today, the development of such weapons is actively working in the United States, China, Russia and India.
According to the Azerbaijani publication SalamNews, citing Turkish sources, the growing number of threats to security leads to the fact that Ankara needs to strengthen the defense capability and combat capabilities of the Turkish army. On the one hand, Turkish defense industry enterprises are striving to meet the needs of the army in modern types of weapons to the maximum, and on the other hand, they are preparing for the possible challenges of the future by developing new types of weapons. The presented videos with the new tests of the Turkish railgun clearly demonstrate the capabilities of a weapon for piercing through through armor plates 75 mm thick.
Currently, the country's defense enterprises continue to work on the creation of electromagnetic guns, which in the future should replace some types of firearms. A new type of weapon called railgun. In the past few years, these weapons have been actively working in countries that hold leading positions in the global arms market.
Railguns are often called weapons based on new physical principles. First of all, this is a very powerful kinetic weapon, which is able to accelerate projectiles (in fact, metal blanks) weighing up to ten kilograms up to speeds of several thousand kilometers per hour. In this case, the firing range of such ammunition may exceed several hundred kilometers. This is enough to seriously damage a large ship, to successfully intercept an airplane or a missile. The effect of a meeting with a similar disc is comparable to the impact of a small meteorite on the ground.
The design of any railgun is an electromagnetic mass accelerator, which consists of three main elements - the railgun itself (a pair of conductive rails), a projectile and a source of direct current. The projectile is located on two parallel electrodes, on which the direct current moves, it is accelerated by the Ampere force. Currently, the developers of new guns are already close to achieving the required military parameters. In the United States and China, such installations have already appeared on ships, where they are being tested with access to sea, but the practical feasibility of such developments has not been fully clarified. With confidence we can only say that in the near future (several years), none of the countries of the world will adopt this type of weapon. At the same time, more and more countries will definitely join the development of railguns. Since the creation of new types of weapons, even regardless of their adoption or non-adoption, is always moving science and technology forward.
Since the beginning of the 1980-s, electromagnetic guns have become an increasingly important part of the planned improvements in the context of creating weapons of the future. The analysis conducted by the military showed the need to create new weapon systems that would have a greater range of action, as well as improved efficiency. In this case, the artillery guns, activated in the usual way, very soon reached their working limits. Muzzle energy can still be increased by optimizing all the operating parameters, while the initial speeds of the shells of existing artillery systems with high performance characteristics are already close to their technical and physical limits. At the same time, the laws of physics, which underlie the electromagnetic thrust of a projectile, allow much higher flight speeds, which is the most significant advantage of the electromagnetic guns under development. At the same time, one can expect an increase in the muzzle energy, while the railguns themselves will have a higher survivability than the traditional artillery barrels.
It is believed that in the last 20 years only, the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany spent about five billion dollars on research in the field of electromagnetic weapons. Turkey joined this pool of states relatively recently. One of the country's private defense enterprises created its prototype electromagnetic gun only in 2013. It is reported that to this day this prototype has already passed more than a thousand different tests.
The first Turkish railgun, presented in 2013, was created by engineers ASELSAN. In 2017, as part of the IDEF-2017 exhibition, which was held in Istanbul, ASELSAN for the first time presented to the public its tower railgun called “Tufan”. It is important to note that the representatives of the developer’s company did not provide reference materials for their development, and also did not report at least indicative tactical and technical characteristics of the product. From the demo video presented there, it was clear that the TUFAN tower installation is being created in the stationary, mobile (wheeled chassis) and ship-based versions (in particular, it is planned that the railgun may appear on board the TF-2000 Turkish frigates that can be taken on weapons after 2023 year). In the same video demonstrated the capabilities of the railgun in the defeat of ground military installations and unmanned aerial vehicles of the enemy. Next to the railgun, the projectiles used were shown and a sheet of armor stitched through with such ammunition was shown.
It is reported that the power of the prototype railgun in Turkey reaches several megajoules. The created electromagnetic gun is able to fire various projectiles, the speed of which can reach 880-2060 m / s. If such a projectile speed is indeed reached, its range can reach approximately 300 kilometers. It is reported that the secretariat of the defense industry of Turkey and in the future plans to invest in the creation of not only electromagnetic weapons, but also laser systems. In the shortest possible time, the ministry expects to refine these prototype weapons in order to pass them on to the Turkish army and security services in the future.
Information sources:
https://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/840442.html
http://www.salamnews.org/ru/news/read/312797
https://lenta.ru/articles/2017/12/11/railgun
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According to the Azerbaijani publication SalamNews, citing Turkish sources, the growing number of threats to security leads to the fact that Ankara needs to strengthen the defense capability and combat capabilities of the Turkish army. On the one hand, Turkish defense industry enterprises are striving to meet the needs of the army in modern types of weapons to the maximum, and on the other hand, they are preparing for the possible challenges of the future by developing new types of weapons. The presented videos with the new tests of the Turkish railgun clearly demonstrate the capabilities of a weapon for piercing through through armor plates 75 mm thick.
Currently, the country's defense enterprises continue to work on the creation of electromagnetic guns, which in the future should replace some types of firearms. A new type of weapon called railgun. In the past few years, these weapons have been actively working in countries that hold leading positions in the global arms market.
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Railguns are often called weapons based on new physical principles. First of all, this is a very powerful kinetic weapon, which is able to accelerate projectiles (in fact, metal blanks) weighing up to ten kilograms up to speeds of several thousand kilometers per hour. In this case, the firing range of such ammunition may exceed several hundred kilometers. This is enough to seriously damage a large ship, to successfully intercept an airplane or a missile. The effect of a meeting with a similar disc is comparable to the impact of a small meteorite on the ground.
The design of any railgun is an electromagnetic mass accelerator, which consists of three main elements - the railgun itself (a pair of conductive rails), a projectile and a source of direct current. The projectile is located on two parallel electrodes, on which the direct current moves, it is accelerated by the Ampere force. Currently, the developers of new guns are already close to achieving the required military parameters. In the United States and China, such installations have already appeared on ships, where they are being tested with access to sea, but the practical feasibility of such developments has not been fully clarified. With confidence we can only say that in the near future (several years), none of the countries of the world will adopt this type of weapon. At the same time, more and more countries will definitely join the development of railguns. Since the creation of new types of weapons, even regardless of their adoption or non-adoption, is always moving science and technology forward.
Since the beginning of the 1980-s, electromagnetic guns have become an increasingly important part of the planned improvements in the context of creating weapons of the future. The analysis conducted by the military showed the need to create new weapon systems that would have a greater range of action, as well as improved efficiency. In this case, the artillery guns, activated in the usual way, very soon reached their working limits. Muzzle energy can still be increased by optimizing all the operating parameters, while the initial speeds of the shells of existing artillery systems with high performance characteristics are already close to their technical and physical limits. At the same time, the laws of physics, which underlie the electromagnetic thrust of a projectile, allow much higher flight speeds, which is the most significant advantage of the electromagnetic guns under development. At the same time, one can expect an increase in the muzzle energy, while the railguns themselves will have a higher survivability than the traditional artillery barrels.
It is believed that in the last 20 years only, the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany spent about five billion dollars on research in the field of electromagnetic weapons. Turkey joined this pool of states relatively recently. One of the country's private defense enterprises created its prototype electromagnetic gun only in 2013. It is reported that to this day this prototype has already passed more than a thousand different tests.
The first Turkish railgun, presented in 2013, was created by engineers ASELSAN. In 2017, as part of the IDEF-2017 exhibition, which was held in Istanbul, ASELSAN for the first time presented to the public its tower railgun called “Tufan”. It is important to note that the representatives of the developer’s company did not provide reference materials for their development, and also did not report at least indicative tactical and technical characteristics of the product. From the demo video presented there, it was clear that the TUFAN tower installation is being created in the stationary, mobile (wheeled chassis) and ship-based versions (in particular, it is planned that the railgun may appear on board the TF-2000 Turkish frigates that can be taken on weapons after 2023 year). In the same video demonstrated the capabilities of the railgun in the defeat of ground military installations and unmanned aerial vehicles of the enemy. Next to the railgun, the projectiles used were shown and a sheet of armor stitched through with such ammunition was shown.
It is reported that the power of the prototype railgun in Turkey reaches several megajoules. The created electromagnetic gun is able to fire various projectiles, the speed of which can reach 880-2060 m / s. If such a projectile speed is indeed reached, its range can reach approximately 300 kilometers. It is reported that the secretariat of the defense industry of Turkey and in the future plans to invest in the creation of not only electromagnetic weapons, but also laser systems. In the shortest possible time, the ministry expects to refine these prototype weapons in order to pass them on to the Turkish army and security services in the future.
Information sources:
https://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/840442.html
http://www.salamnews.org/ru/news/read/312797
https://lenta.ru/articles/2017/12/11/railgun
Open source materials
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