Turkey’s grand unveiling of an intercontinental ballistic missile has backfired after an AI-generated promotional video showed the weapon seeming to strike its US ally.
The Yıldırımhan missile was presented at a defence expo in Istanbul this week as capable of travelling 6,000km carrying a 3,000kg warhead at up to 25 times the speed of sound — placing Turkey among a small group of countries able to develop such weapons.
But questions quickly arose about the real capabilities of the system, sparked by the AI video showing the Yıldırımhan hitting nuclear facilities and other targets that appeared to be in the US.
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Turkey’s grand unveiling of an intercontinental ballistic missile has backfired after an AI-generated promotional video showed the weapon seeming to strike its US ally.
The Yıldırımhan missile was presented at a defence expo in Istanbul this week as capable of travelling 6,000km carrying a 3,000kg warhead at up to 25 times the speed of sound — placing Turkey among a small group of countries able to develop such weapons.
But questions quickly arose about the real capabilities of the system, sparked by the AI video showing the Yıldırımhan hitting nuclear facilities and other targets that appeared to be in the US.
Thank you Türkiye very cool
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> Turkish officials later admitted a working prototype of the Yıldırımhan had yet to be built for full testing.
It’s vaporware. They’re showing off mock-ups.
I’m dumb, I thought they were in NATO lol