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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.

We can only selectively buy smaller numbers from Boeing to keep relations going.

T-929 is a technology demonstrator developed in a short timeframe. TAI didn't go through a lot of trouble making one. But the data learned from making it is invaluable. The project only lacks an engine and once an engine is available it can go to production quickly. I think when TEI or TR-Motor...

In recent years they made hybrid supercapacitors to combine the better features of capacitors and batteries. Batteries can also be used to charge supercapacitors faster than mains supply alone. Still there maybe a wait time between full charges and there maybe a quicker way of launching planes...

Americans are expecting to get to their targeted failure rates and overall maturity of their system by 2030. The earliest way of seeing which one works better is to start making one for ourselves. I would experiment with compressed gas while also developing an electromagnetic launcher.

OK I know that part, I did my refresher reading yesterday but that is only the American way. Americans are using an alternating current system while Chinese are making a direct current system which can safely be assumed to be using supercapacitors or a combination of supercapacitors and chemical...

Supercapacitor batteries then. Technically a battery is a batch of cells that carry charge, so.

For propulsion battery maybe under-powered but considering all the onboard systems they will have to accommodate some battery capacity I guess. EMALS is pretty much the way to go as we have a number of different unmanned systems that can benefit from them. Below are some but there must be more...

They better make something good. If there is battery power in the propulsion system this can also be used for powering DC electric powered magnetic catapults among other things. I would suggest exploring the possibility of explosive powered and compressed air powered catapult systems as an...

I was thinking 500 will make us feel safe but what do I know.

We haven't yet been in a situation where we could benefit greatly had we have nukes. Having nukes will not automatically bring the upper-hand in conflicts but it will be an insurance policy against excessive reaction. We need to have all other leverages in our arsenal before we finally benefit...

The conflict ends with Türkiye's victory, France continues shrinking.

Turbines work with their best efficiency between 90% and 100+% throttle but for some reason the UK went for a twin RR engine. Probably because it is UK made instead of American. Same applies to us if we can have our own engines we can mix and match as we wish. Smaller engines with large engines...

What do you mean, diesel versus turbine efficiency?

Because we need to use the whole length of the ship to launch some of our planes as we will not have catapults on the first incarnation of the ship. We do have an angled runway but it is angled inwards not outwards.

On the AC turbine propulsion: A possible marine version of the upcoming Kaan engine will likely have more power than the GE LM2500 engines so a shift from 4 turbine engines to 2 turbines like the HMS QE2 can be possible given the amount of time there is to the building timeline of the MUG.

So we can't afford the gas the ship will burn, then we should stop having a navy altogether. UK ships are gas powered too. Until a nuclear propulsion becomes available we can have a ship that has everything else. We have other strong sides like UAVs to compensate for lack of nuclear propulsion...

That seems to be the intent. Some may argue Kaan is too big for shipborne operation but there is no solid arguement against it.