Turkey begins work on ICBM

[ekrem]

The Turkish Armed Forces have begun working on a project to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), broadcaster NTV reported on its website today.

A decision to launch the project was made in a July 17 meeting of the Defense Industry Executive Board, headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel. Erdoğan had previously requested that the military develop missiles with a 2,500-kilometer range.

The board decided to form a satellite launch center that would have a two-fold effect on Turkey's aerospace and military endeavors. First, the center will enable Turkey to place its own satellites in orbit, and second, the center will allow the Turkish military to launch missiles that can navigate outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Attaining an ICBM launch capability is reportedly the chief aim of the satellite launch center.

The Turkish Defense Ministry, the Defense Industry Undersecretariat and the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), have been jointly working on the project for some time.

The report said Ankara could cooperate with an undisclosed Eastern European country to develop the satellite launch center.

The ICBM project, meanwhile, has sought to improve on the SOM cruise missile developed by TÜBİTAK. The SOM cruise missile has a current range of 300 kilometers. The range would first be increased to 1,500 and later to 2,500 kilometers within the project, according to the report.

POLITICS - Turkey begins work on ICBM

- Extending the range of the SOM Cruise-Missile to 2,500 km.
- producing a missile which is able to leave earth's atmosphere and re-enter it again.

 

[ekrem]

News is from March.
The center is already constructed and 2nd tests were completed.

Turkey's missile test field ready in 4 months
BUSINESS - Turkey's missile test field ready in 4 months


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[PoliticalChic]

The Turkish Armed Forces have begun working on a project to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), broadcaster NTV reported on its website today.

A decision to launch the project was made in a July 17 meeting of the Defense Industry Executive Board, headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel. Erdoğan had previously requested that the military develop missiles with a 2,500-kilometer range.

The board decided to form a satellite launch center that would have a two-fold effect on Turkey's aerospace and military endeavors. First, the center will enable Turkey to place its own satellites in orbit, and second, the center will allow the Turkish military to launch missiles that can navigate outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Attaining an ICBM launch capability is reportedly the chief aim of the satellite launch center.

The Turkish Defense Ministry, the Defense Industry Undersecretariat and the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), have been jointly working on the project for some time.

The report said Ankara could cooperate with an undisclosed Eastern European country to develop the satellite launch center.

The ICBM project, meanwhile, has sought to improve on the SOM cruise missile developed by TÜBİTAK. The SOM cruise missile has a current range of 300 kilometers. The range would first be increased to 1,500 and later to 2,500 kilometers within the project, according to the report.

POLITICS - Turkey begins work on ICBM

- Extending the range of the SOM Cruise-Missile to 2,500 km.
- producing a missile which is able to leave earth's atmosphere and re-enter it again.

Here's the real 'bomb' Ekkie....


1. To compete in the world economy, it must educate and employ women…but the more years of education, the fewer children she has.

a. Women 40 to 49 without formal education average five children, while for those who have completed high school or higher, is two. http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/workshops/050509_paper08.pdf

b. Between 1995-1998, Turkish fertility was 2.29 children per woman; but Kurdish fertility was 4.27. Since Kurds comprise 18% of the Turkish population (based on mother tongue), the Turkish fertility rate excluding Kurds, was only 1.5, which is as low as Europe’s! Ibid. and http://epc2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=60137

Better hurry with them bombs.....


2. Like the vanishing point in a perspective painting, long-term projections help us order our perceptions of what we see in front of us today. Here's one to think about, fresh from the just-released update of the United Nations' population forecasts: At constant fertility, Israel will have more young people by the end of this century than either Turkey or Iran, and more than German, Italy or Spain.

With a total fertility rate of three children per woman, Israel's total population will rise to 24 million by the end of the present century. Iran's fertility is around 1.7 and falling, while the fertility for ethnic Turks is only 1.5 (the Kurdish minority has a fertility rate of around 4.5).
Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Demographics and the Long-Term Israeli Victory

 

[ekrem]

b. Between 1995-1998, Turkish fertility was 2.29 children per woman; but Kurdish fertility was 4.27. Since Kurds comprise 18% of the Turkish population (based on mother tongue), the Turkish fertility rate excluding Kurds, was only 1.5, which is as low as Europe’s! Ibid. and http://epc2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=60137

The link says something totally different.
It says, that 14% of Turkish population have Kurdish mothertongue, and that 35% of all Kurdish women use Turkish to communicate with their men (children will be Turkish speaking in first place).

 

[Artevelde]

What a joke.

 

[High_Gravity]

What a joke.

Yeah pretty much.

 

[Sallow]

The Turkish Armed Forces have begun working on a project to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), broadcaster NTV reported on its website today.

A decision to launch the project was made in a July 17 meeting of the Defense Industry Executive Board, headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel. Erdoğan had previously requested that the military develop missiles with a 2,500-kilometer range.

The board decided to form a satellite launch center that would have a two-fold effect on Turkey's aerospace and military endeavors. First, the center will enable Turkey to place its own satellites in orbit, and second, the center will allow the Turkish military to launch missiles that can navigate outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Attaining an ICBM launch capability is reportedly the chief aim of the satellite launch center.

The Turkish Defense Ministry, the Defense Industry Undersecretariat and the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), have been jointly working on the project for some time.

The report said Ankara could cooperate with an undisclosed Eastern European country to develop the satellite launch center.

The ICBM project, meanwhile, has sought to improve on the SOM cruise missile developed by TÜBİTAK. The SOM cruise missile has a current range of 300 kilometers. The range would first be increased to 1,500 and later to 2,500 kilometers within the project, according to the report.

POLITICS - Turkey begins work on ICBM

- Extending the range of the SOM Cruise-Missile to 2,500 km.
- producing a missile which is able to leave earth's atmosphere and re-enter it again.

Here's the real 'bomb' Ekkie....


1. To compete in the world economy, it must educate and employ women…but the more years of education, the fewer children she has.

a. Women 40 to 49 without formal education average five children, while for those who have completed high school or higher, is two. http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/workshops/050509_paper08.pdf

b. Between 1995-1998, Turkish fertility was 2.29 children per woman; but Kurdish fertility was 4.27. Since Kurds comprise 18% of the Turkish population (based on mother tongue), the Turkish fertility rate excluding Kurds, was only 1.5, which is as low as Europe’s! Ibid. and http://epc2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=60137

Better hurry with them bombs.....


2. Like the vanishing point in a perspective painting, long-term projections help us order our perceptions of what we see in front of us today. Here's one to think about, fresh from the just-released update of the United Nations' population forecasts: At constant fertility, Israel will have more young people by the end of this century than either Turkey or Iran, and more than German, Italy or Spain.

With a total fertility rate of three children per woman, Israel's total population will rise to 24 million by the end of the present century. Iran's fertility is around 1.7 and falling, while the fertility for ethnic Turks is only 1.5 (the Kurdish minority has a fertility rate of around 4.5).
Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Demographics and the Long-Term Israeli Victory

You been to Turkey recently?

It's got one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In fact..Istanbul real estate is about on par with places like New York..

They aren't even all that interested in joining the Eurozone anymore.

I kinda think developing an ICBM is a fool's errand..but if you are going to do a bomb..you'd better have the delivery system in place first.

 

[ekrem]

You been to Turkey recently?

It's got one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In fact..Istanbul real estate is about on par with places like New York..

They aren't even all that interested in joining the Eurozone anymore.

I kinda think developing an ICBM is a fool's errand..but if you are going to do a bomb..you'd better have the delivery system in place first.

Technical University of Istanbul and Research Council have a state-financed budget of 1.1 billion $ to develop space-launching-vehicle to carry satellites and a command centre.
İşte Türkiye'nin uzay programı - ntvmsnbc.com

The command-center will be constructed in Sinop on Black-Sea coast.
An ICBM is not far away after Space-launching-Vehicle.

If a country like Iran (heavily under sanctions) can produce space-launching-vehicles, so can Turkey. Although Turkey started late with this business.

 

[ekrem]

What a joke.

You speak of your home-country Belgium?
Joke indeed.

 

[Synthaholic]

The Turkish Armed Forces have begun working on a project to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), broadcaster NTV reported on its website today.

A decision to launch the project was made in a July 17 meeting of the Defense Industry Executive Board, headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel. Erdoğan had previously requested that the military develop missiles with a 2,500-kilometer range.

The board decided to form a satellite launch center that would have a two-fold effect on Turkey's aerospace and military endeavors. First, the center will enable Turkey to place its own satellites in orbit, and second, the center will allow the Turkish military to launch missiles that can navigate outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Attaining an ICBM launch capability is reportedly the chief aim of the satellite launch center.

The Turkish Defense Ministry, the Defense Industry Undersecretariat and the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), have been jointly working on the project for some time.

The report said Ankara could cooperate with an undisclosed Eastern European country to develop the satellite launch center.

The ICBM project, meanwhile, has sought to improve on the SOM cruise missile developed by TÜBİTAK. The SOM cruise missile has a current range of 300 kilometers. The range would first be increased to 1,500 and later to 2,500 kilometers within the project, according to the report.

POLITICS - Turkey begins work on ICBM

- Extending the range of the SOM Cruise-Missile to 2,500 km.
- producing a missile which is able to leave earth's atmosphere and re-enter it again.

Here's the real 'bomb' Ekkie....


1. To compete in the world economy, it must educate and employ women…but the more years of education, the fewer children she has.

a. Women 40 to 49 without formal education average five children, while for those who have completed high school or higher, is two. http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/workshops/050509_paper08.pdf

b. Between 1995-1998, Turkish fertility was 2.29 children per woman; but Kurdish fertility was 4.27. Since Kurds comprise 18% of the Turkish population (based on mother tongue), the Turkish fertility rate excluding Kurds, was only 1.5, which is as low as Europe’s! Ibid. and http://epc2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=60137

Better hurry with them bombs.....


2. Like the vanishing point in a perspective painting, long-term projections help us order our perceptions of what we see in front of us today. Here's one to think about, fresh from the just-released update of the United Nations' population forecasts: At constant fertility, Israel will have more young people by the end of this century than either Turkey or Iran, and more than German, Italy or Spain. http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/2011/05/demographics-and-long-term-israeli.html

And nowhere to put them! Or are they planning on invading and conquering?

And what does Israel have to do with Türkiye's ICBMs? Do you believe this is all about Israel?

 

[Synthaholic]

b. Between 1995-1998, Turkish fertility was 2.29 children per woman; but Kurdish fertility was 4.27. Since Kurds comprise 18% of the Turkish population (based on mother tongue), the Turkish fertility rate excluding Kurds, was only 1.5, which is as low as Europe’s! Ibid. and http://epc2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=60137

The link says something totally different.
It says, that 14% of Turkish population have Kurdish mothertongue, and that 35% of all Kurdish women use Turkish to communicate with their men (children will be Turkish speaking in first place).

You weren't expecting honest numbers from PC, were you?

 

[Synthaholic]

You been to Turkey recently?

It's got one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In fact..Istanbul real estate is about on par with places like New York..

They aren't even all that interested in joining the Eurozone anymore.

I kinda think developing an ICBM is a fool's errand..but if you are going to do a bomb..you'd better have the delivery system in place first.

Technical University of Istanbul and Research Council have a state-financed budget of 1.1 billion $ to develop space-launching-vehicle to carry satellites and a command centre.
İşte Türkiye'nin uzay programı - ntvmsnbc.com

The command-center will be constructed in Sinop on Black-Sea coast.
An ICBM is not far away after Space-launching-Vehicle.

If a country like Iran (heavily under sanctions) can produce space-launching-vehicles, so can Turkey. Although Turkey started late with this business.

I should post a few of my photos from Sinop - I loved that place. I took a roll of black & white because it just has that look, with old-world fishing techniques, men out in the water with huge nets, etc.

 

[ekrem]

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/3Q-05_QLR.pdf

The first 10-year phase calls for the establishment of a Turkish space agency. In the second phase, Turkey plans to send Air Force pilots abroad for training as astronauts, most likely to Russia to fly on Soyuz launches to the International Space Station. The country hopes to launch its own astronaut in 2015 using a “national launch vehicle.”

If we achieve it in the given timeframe is another question.
As long as funds are directed to these projects there's no reason why there shouldn't be success, and Turkey is approaching an economic size to sustain such activities.
An ICBM differs in such way, that it simply re-enters the atmosphere again.