{"id":2051,"date":"2017-05-11T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2017-05-11T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:28:15","slug":"idef-2017-turkey-joins-railgun-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/11\/idef-2017-turkey-joins-railgun-club\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEF 2017: TURKEY JOINS RAILGUN CLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2052\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-560x411.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-260x191.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN-160x118.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAIL-GUN.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Shephard<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shephardmedia.com\/author\/grant-turnbull\/\">Grant Turnbull<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8216;Tufan&#8217; (Turkish for storm), the railgun could be integrated onto several platforms including vessels or ground vehicles, as well as be used as a static weapon system on land. It could be utilised for indirect\/direct fire missions against ground and naval targets or be used as an anti-aircraft weapon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2057\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2.jpg 799w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2-768x740.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2-560x540.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2-260x251.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/RAILGUN-2-160x154.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Aselsan spokesperson told <i>Shephard <\/i>that the project was still in the research and development phase, with the company testing a lab-based launcher system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAILGUN-TEST2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2053\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAILGUN-TEST2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAILGUN-TEST2.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAILGUN-TEST2-260x173.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/TUFAN-RAILGUN-TEST2-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The current launcher we have is small, but we are developing bigger launchers to get more muzzle velocity,&#8217; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.shephardmedia.com\/news\/landwarfareintl\/idef-2017-turkey-joins-railgun-club\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Shephard by Grant Turnbull Known as the &#8216;Tufan&#8217; (Turkish for storm), the railgun could be integrated onto several platforms including vessels or ground vehicles, as well as be used as a static weapon system on land. It could be utilised for indirect\/direct fire missions against ground and naval targets or be used as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/11\/idef-2017-turkey-joins-railgun-club\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IDEF 2017: TURKEY JOINS RAILGUN CLUB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}