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Electric propulsion only recently became capable of supporting useful loads for justifiable duration. You need to be able to put together best of everything to make a compelling product. domestic fuel injected piston engine for long endurance domestic high zoom camera for high quality visuals...

The future of aviation offers a lot of variety so we need to make fleet of a sensible combination of all kinds of fliers and not just rely on a few options. Instead of making lots of the same design we should test fliers through time and see which ones survive the requirements of the time before...

In the timeframe of a decade we can expect to be in financial surplus rather than deficit so we can have respectable numbers of anything starting in 5 years from now.

Larger shipbourne helicopter drones became useless before they even became useful for observation purposes.

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In the VTOL urban air mobility industry people were skeptic that multicopters wouldn't stand a chance in adverse weather conditions but their view changed after they saw the video where a sailor lets go of a small drone from his hand out the door of a sail boat where the drone flies high, takes...

Similar to what is happening in mobile phone networks technology a strategy involving Long Term Evolution can be adopted where you upgrade the platform in a continuous manner. In this case making high numbers of a single incarnation of a plane is not suitable and you want to have a mix of...

Those few engineers have the backing of thousands when they think they are lacking in their efforts. They also use the work of engineers that went into the subsystems they are using on that system. The resulting system would not be possible without the works of engineers that made the components...

93% of the money that will go into the making of 250 Kaan fighters will stay in the Turkish economy so not a big deal how much it costs. At 100 million a pop it can even be considered cheap. And we get to pay for it over a decades time.

They probably want to slow down the coming of a BRICS currency.

Baykar's came with a Turkish made engine and the support of thousands employees behind it for a difference. I am not sure how Kalkan will perform but I have seen small drones performing perfectly in gale force winds.

Improving very fast, already ranks well in Europe. There are 170+ charge station operators, statistically stated, there was news recently.

RİHA was the name AFAIK, Vestel was tasked with it. If Baykar's Kalkan VTOL UAV is up to the task then the problem is already solved. I believe Baykar will make larger versions of Kalkan as more powerful motors and engines become available.

Batteries with 10 minute charge are on the horizon.

How quickly do you want it.