Recent content by Binh Nguyen

I think the successfulness of TB2 in Syria, Lybia and Armenia were combined of many factors such as ground electronic warfare measures, small RCS, low attitude flight envelope, low speed, experienced TB2 operators, pour training/tactic Pantsir operators.

Pantsir was designed with supersonic targets such as AGM-88 HARM in mind. Therefore, for very-slow and low RCS targets like TB2, Pantsir system will consider it like a bird and pass by.

Wow, is this TB3 or an upgraded TB2 with new engine and retractable landing gears?

Please correct me if I am wrong. Bayraktar Akinci and Tai Aksungur were competitors for the Turkey Heavy MAL program and finally Akinci has won, right?

Everything is like when you fire a fire-and-forget missile. Ground operators just need to choose the target they want to detroy. Then, TB2 will automatically keep track, release MAM, project laser pulse on target untill it is hit by MAM. Therefore, there is no any relay because of SatCom in this...

I don't think the TB2-S will lose the capability to hit moving targets. C-Tech SOTM provide the data transfer rate of over 20MB per second so we can say operators on ground can receive data from TB2-S and send their command in real time. One more think, TB2 is equipped systems that can...

I guess PG115 is a copy of Rotax 914F that has a turbocharger but without intercooler.

TB2 is a limited platform that does not have any place left for reconnaissance or EW pods. And that is the reason why Bayraktar is working on TB3.

It's not easy for Ukrainian UAV ground controll posts to survive long under heavy missile and air attacks from Russia.

In my imagination, TB3 will not be another look-like Anka-S. Rather than that, it is a scale-up version of TB2 with Tei PD170 engine, a bubble head for C-Tech SatCom On-The-Move system. The CATS is relocated to the front of landing gear and under a lengthen nose, leave the belly space for SAR...

With current Rotax 912 100-hp engine, TB2 still can carry 4 MAM-L but with less internal fuel. With Tei PG115 115-hp engine, it can definitely carry 4 that bombs without sacrificing its internal fuel and loiter time.