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I think those speeds could change with altitude. I doubt Akıncı can do 195 knots IAS at 40000 ft. i.e. If Akıncı does 120 knots IAS at 400000 ft, it will be 216 knots TAS, which equals to 400 km/h. 25 hours needed for 10000 km at this speed. Calculator: http://www.csgnetwork.com/tasinfocalc.html

Probably all aviation diesel engines use Jet A1 or equivalent as they are very similar to diesel fuel, so Akıncı will use the same type of fuel if it switches to diesel piston engines. Jet fuel has some chemicals in it to prevent freezing and fungus. Aksungur will throttle down a lot, like...

I expected something like max endurance of ~27 hours on clean config and minimum required power and with this the distance travelled could be 7500-8000 km. For longer range, the endurance will be less with faster speeds and the resulting range could be a bit longer than 8000 km. So the figures...

Fins disappear in every second frame and a longitudinal line appears, maybe it's a side effect of rotation too.

Excellent! I tried to slow it down too: https://i.ibb.co/F85wJLt/ezgif-6-edaddf94d799.gif

Hey thanks. But there is still a problem for me. There are multiple cameras. Only the high speed one/or the slowed down footage shows some kind of turn. Either there is a shutter sync effect with other cameras or the high speed one has some artefact. Could you also convert that camera view...

I read that article, that's why it's interesting to me. Could be wrong or right. Logic says the missile does not need to spin like Stinger due to IIR. Geometry also does not look like spinning is the best option with those surfaces. Article says they did not see it spinning, yet I don't know...

Probably it’s not spinning during the flight but I could not found any video footage of the missile detailed enough to confirm. Latest video shows it still spinning after rocket engine start, at this frame near the end of this sequence. Even at low missile speed, slow motion camera and close...

Sungur = Don't know if it's the missile or the system Aksungur = Twin engine UAV Göksungur = Fast UAV Gökdoğan = It was initially WVR missile, then changed into BVR missile name. ( a bigger bird than bozdoğan) Bozdoğan = Reverse of above Akdoğan = Codename of something unknown by SAGE head...

The latest video at 00:30 shows that the missile is spinning after launch and during main rocket engine start. Not sure if it's for wing deployment for the initial portion flight or for stabilization/guidance purposes for the whole flight, too fast to see in the previous videos for the terminal...

He also did not like the mockup. TUSAŞ should be more careful with mockups, it's easy to impress ordinary people or journalists, but not the professionals. Because of "composites" experience TUSAŞ can easily build a mockup like this:

Way too many rivets, gaps, no surface finish and looks like a simple mockup ( maybe some kind of wrapping real helicopter frame and parts with sheet metal). Landing gear, gun and rotating parts are exposed. Of course, I want to be wrong. At least, maybe they want both this and manned T-629 to...

Sorry if mentioned before... PT-3 "SATCOM antenna dome" is also visible.

I don't know about the type, but most of the size difference is because of the camera position & perspective/ heavy distortion.

Hey, I'm usually sceptical about those kind of websites and my post is not aimed towards you (I see, like me, you question this information too) The evidence for 15 km is just an animation. It still says range is 14 km for INS/GPS guided mode. And what the hell 8 km range means now (the...

"What if?" image... Leopard 2 with the usual Altay turret, scale and positioning could be a little off. And M60 with Altay turret (just for fun, scale is probably more off on this one) :

While I'm all for a better Hürjet and agree with all of you, just thinking out loud: The benchmark F-16 is not a state-of-the-art design anymore. It was designed in 1970s, and depending on the mission profile, it could be surpassed by newer designs like Lavi or other canard designs with less...

Hey, thanks for the compliment and additional explanations. Actually I have the same figures, but due to truncation errors, illustrative purposes and uncertainty I rounded them down to easy numbers. As you said in the other post, some variables are already factored in like drag, so it's not a...

Turkey should develop those kind of rounds for naval and ground artillery. I think most of them are subprojectile rounds and we can start by developing conventional rounds. For example Italian Vulcano fired from 127mm can reach 100km+, Dart fired from 76mm reaches further than conventional CIWS...

Of course.... My goal was to compare airframe performance (Akıncı, TB2, Aksungur, Anka) with different engine options. In the original post I told it was obviously in error so don't expect serious numbers. For Akıncı we have 130-195 knots as cruise airspeed. Type of airspeed is not mentioned...