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Our company has signed a contract for the Rotary-Wing Cargo UAV Project, which concerns the supply of various numbers of Unmanned Helicopters, between our subsidiary TİTRA Teknoloji A.Ş. and the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, Defense Industry Agency.

 

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«Designed for especially dangerous missions»

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American combat drone Thanatos made its first flight
«A year after it was first unveiled, Kratos announced it flew the highly secretive Thanatos UCAV (Uncrewed Combat Air Vehicle) for the first time in the last few months.
Kratos Defense and Security has recently unveiled that its stealthy Thanatos UCAV has completed the maiden flight. However, due to the highly secretive nature of the program, the exact date of this flight was not publicly announced»

Performance data are not disclosed.


 
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«Designed for especially dangerous missions»

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American combat drone Thanatos made its first flight
«A year after it was first unveiled, Kratos announced it flew the highly secretive Thanatos UCAV (Uncrewed Combat Air Vehicle) for the first time in the last few months.
Kratos Defense and Security has recently unveiled that its stealthy Thanatos UCAV has completed the maiden flight. However, due to the highly secretive nature of the program, the exact date of this flight was not publicly announced»

Performance data are not disclosed.




So they have flew with scaled model before they start the project. All the buzz for rc model.
 

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Akıncı fired supersonic missile with fire-and-update capability.


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Apparently, all of Roketsan's guided artillery rockets will be certified for AKINCI (and possibly KE) as air-to-ground missile variants. A very interesting fire support doctrine is emerging.
 
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Piaggio also dabbled with UAVs albeit not that enthusiastically.

Piaggio P.1HH HammerHead & Piaggio P.2HH HammerHead with only a single prototype each in 2013 and 2018 respectively. (Based on the P.180)

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Piaggio also dabbled with UAVs albeit not that enthusiastically.

Piaggio P.1HH HammerHead & Piaggio P.2HH HammerHead with only a single prototype each in 20113 and 2018 respectively.

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All the property rights or patents of this project-related subsystems and structures developed in relation to this project may not be owned in their entirety by piaggio. Leonardo was also in this canceled/stalled program.

Piaggio had some advantages with this airframe, and this was a topic of discussion in forums years ago. The most important thing that I remember is that the aircraft had a very good minimum control speed ( I think it is important for UAV derivative), and most importantly, a higher maximum speed and cruising speed than any turboprop aircraft in this class. This really gave Avantia a significant advantage in the business jet market.

Another detail is that the aircraft uses a PT-6 engine. Piaggio aerospace's aero-engine department also has long-term complete maintenance, repair and overhaul agreements with PW. If you ask me, this may be one of the most important advantages this acquisition will provide to Baykar.
 
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All the property rights or patents of this project-related subsystems and structures developed in relation to this project may not be owned in their entirety by piaggio. Leonardo was also in this canceled/stalled program.

Piaggio had some advantages with this airframe, and this was a topic of discussion in forums years ago. The most important thing that I remember is that the aircraft had a very good minimum control speed ( I think it is important for UAV derivative), and most importantly, a higher maximum speed and cruising speed than any turboprop aircraft in this class. This really gave Avantia a significant advantage in the business jet market.

Another detail is that the aircraft uses a PT-6 engine. Piaggio aerospace's aero-engine department also has long-term complete maintenance, repair and overhaul agreements with PW. If you ask me, this may be one of the most important advantages this acquisition will provide to Baykar.
Italy and through Leonardo in particular, has been a very good partner so far primarily within the T129 program.
I don't know of any covert embargo imposed by the Italians unlike their German and other western partners.
I agree that the engine know-how is probably the most important advantage in this acquisition but I assume there will be more advantages spreading from manufacturing secrets, utilisation of assets, connections within Piaggio's own ecosystem to a foot in the door for the western aviation market, etc.
 

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Piaggio also dabbled with UAVs albeit not that enthusiastically.

Piaggio P.1HH HammerHead & Piaggio P.2HH HammerHead with only a single prototype each in 2013 and 2018 respectively. (Based on the P.180)

piaggio_aerospace_p_1hh_hammerhead-81345.jpg

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What is the strategy or goal of this purchase?
 

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