- J-Missile
Project J is a
Turkish Military program intended to develop a series ofballistic missiles known as J Missiles.Financed by Genelkurmay Başkanlığı (Turkish equivalent of the Pentagon), the program originally started in the 1980s under the name an indigenous "short-range artillery rocket project". In the late 1990s,
Turkey andChina signed a controversial agreement to share missile technology, and Turkey bought an unknown number of WS seriessurface-to-surface missile s from China, along with new technology that enabled the country to develop its own inertialnavigation system s and electromechanical control surfaces that can be used for guiding long rangemissile s. In the meantime, Turkey indigenously developed and tested a newSRBM (domestically known as Toros) in theBlack Sea , which demonstrated the capability of point-delivering a 50+ kilogram payload to a distance of 100 kilometers (62 miles). It is not known weather Toros was a result of the J Project or a separate Turkish attempt to develop ballistic capabilities.Fact|date=July 2008As a member of
NATO , and party to international treaties likeNPT andMTCR , Turkey continues to counter and refuse any allegations regarding its ballistic missile program, and claims that Project J does not exist.Fact|date=July 2008External links
* http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.63/pub_detail.asp Turkish "Toros" Chinese "B611" Missile
* http://www.sage.tubitak.gov.tr/ Defense Industries Research & Development Institute
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