I mean Akıncı is often misinterpetated when it comes to its a2a usage. That thing can fly for many goddamn hours with its onboard AESA radar, and a few BVRAAMs. It lacks the kinematics of a fighter jet but like i said, that loitering time makes it a good piece of medium range air defense asset...
My personal answer to what Akdoğan and Gökhan might look like. I kinda expect Akdoğan to draw inspiration from SACM or Peregrine so I made a ressembling wing layout. For Gökhan, I made the intakes like that with the consideration of its possible integration into TF-X's or MIUS's internal weapon...
Loitering around for 10-12 hours and loitering around for a few hours are different things. Point being, MIUS and Akıncı will defend the airspace in different ways. Akıncı can hang around for a longer time with lower kinematic performance, thus shorter engagement range compared to MIUS. Either...
" * İ've further crazy idea: adding 8 AMRAAM on it, you would get flying, mobile, unmanned, Air defence / SAM system:) "
Akıncı is likely to fill that role with nose AESA radar+Gökdoğan/Akdoğan+HERİKKS and other air defense assets. Certainly some gourmet stuff for places like Agean sea where...
Selçuk Bayraktar indirectly stated in a tweet that Akıncı could fly at 500+ km/h
Also Akıncı doesn't have much issue with flying at 32k feet, at some hundereds of kilometers per hour, from a footage released by Selçuk bayraktar himself
Akıncı's shape is based on providing more lift, which is...
I feel like the arsenal of TİHAs will differ at a far greater degree this time. Aksungur might be used to deliever many MAM-Ls and 500lb bombs alike, perhaps kamikaze UAVs like Şimşek and Göksungur.
Aksungur aint as filled as Akıncı when it comes to avionics and I don't need to talk about differences of Turbodiesel and Turboprop engines when it comes to costs, let it be per unit or maintenance. By logic it is. I honestly dont feel the need to wait for a proof about one obivious thing.
"I know right both will have different roles but fanboys just piss me off."
Nah dont worry, I aint the type saying that Akıncı will fly at mesosphere and mess people up on its own. I just pointed out to some slight differences in their usage concepts stemming from different eras of development...
People miss the fact that Akıncı and Aksungur will bypass short range air defenses much better than TB-2 with their standoff weaponry those are recently developed. Don't forget the fact that our current class of UCAVs had extensive support from external jamming sources. If you add Akıncı's own...
Milgem Ada w MKEK 76mm Naval Gun-Rendered (Oh yeah, English preparation lessons be too boring to focus on if you are wondering about that Zoom on the background)