If he were in China he would disappear for good. There was a lack of news coming from SAGE lately. I think he appeared in a YouTube video after he signed off.
Why should Baykar do anything about it while they already have access to the engine and their customers will demand the reliable Rotax instead of a lame effort engine copy. Even Rotax itself moved towards more powerful engines as the industry demands more power. And you have got the national TEI...
Localize Rotax engine, why would anyone do that. Baykar exports more than 80% of its products and you want them to localize Rotax. While also there is not guarantee that TB2 continues its success in an ever changing sector. Where does that inorganic growth come from, pulling strings to slow TAI...
That is just one experimental build. We don't know about the Chinese one and about the final configuration of Anka3 with domestics engine. Apart from air-frame specs the onboard systems load is critically important. Sensors , comms, self defense, stealth level, maneuver efficiency all go into...
Even a novice intern will know what it takes to be highly stealth so the state of things is only governed by the materials you have access to. I would say this picture will change dramatically when we have new engines. I would say a twin engine Anka4 will be a plane beyond tactical.
You design a plane around an engine, when the custom made TF6000 starts flying the looks of our drones will be different and it is only a couple of years away.
Akıncı-C with a pair of 950hp engines probably improved speed and payload capacity considerably.
TR-Motor should start making turboprop engines suitable for heavy drone use.
Why go through the trouble of removing the canopy and making the air-frame a totally different one that needs to be optimized with its new shape. It is best to keep the aerodynamics of the airplane intact and just remove the ejection seat that is heavy and install communication equipment and...
You are keeping everything else intact and only making a new gearbox with 3 engine input, shouldn't be too hard to develop for the maker who already makes a twin engine gearbox. Acquiring this technology will be useful for more powerful machines in the future so it is very well worth investing in.
They will more likely than not make that engine at some point in time but priorities of development seem to keep it neglected for now. The more pressing matter is if the need for that power level engine can be satisfied somehow from Ukraine, from GE or by using a three engine setup. If the...
They can keep the rotors of the helicopter intact and tune the MTOW with the power of the engine and that is a different version of the helicopter right there. Because helicopters are not so very aerodynamically optimized their engine compartment size will not be very critical anyway. As we...
When you make them with domestic means you can make them at a fraction of the commercial market cost. Remember just a couple days ago Türkiye started the making of a bunch of Navy vessels with one decision and this year's defense budget is increased by quite a bit. I think it should take about 3...
Much of the work the helicopter will do will be at sea level and for hot and high you simply operate it with less fuel and payload. The 10600kg MTOW helicopter is powered by 2*2115 = 4230 hp and the TS1400 delivers 4200 without breaking a sweat and it can actually go as high as 1680 hp in...