I have a question.
From a safety (take off&landing on the runway of TCG Anadolu) point of view, wouldn't it be more appropriate to design the TB-3's wings wider but shorter?
It is sooo hard for Turkiye.
In two perspectives, it would be a very very difficult and even impossible task for TEI.
a) While there are military turbofan projects such as the TF-35000 that need to be completed very urgently, we cannot allocate qualified personnel and capital to that project...
Helicopters will always be important. Whether they are flown by human pilots or in drone form.
What I mean by tank-like is this: The variety and intensity of threats helicopters have to face on the battlefield has increased. For example, even STM's Alpagu-style kamikaze drones pose a threat to...
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Transporting cargo with swarms of drones may be even more vital on the battlefield of the future than we currently think. The miserable situation of Russian logistics in the Ukrainian war should be a lesson to everyone. The Russians lost an incredible number of military trucks.
The fate of helicopters will be like tanks. Almost every soldier is given MANPADS these days. Then let's think about what could be the solution to the problem.
The helicopter has 3 main missions at the front. 1) Close air support. 2) Urgent transport of unarmed personnel (wounded etc.) and...
This means that the Chinese aircraft, like the F35, will perform most of its mission by flying around 1,2 mach. J-21 will rarely go up to mach 1,8. There is no problem there. Or there is no such thing as not caring.
Beutifull airframe.
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DSI has no moving parts and they provide most efficient pressure recovery at a particular Mach numbers, usually between Mach 1,2. The efficiency decreases with both positive and negative deviation from the sweet spot.