There is an old saying for aircraft design; "If an aircraft outer appearance is beaitiful then its aerodynamic performance is probably good."
However it's not true everytime generally true.
Outer apperance of MIUS is so good that better than what all we expected. It is a brilliant design example of young turkish aircraft design history.
Some of dearest friends say that as though MIUS design is ordinary and everthing is normal and with some political comments design is shown as simple...
If Baykar Company has not createad TB-2 (combat proven and sold so many to different countries proved that away from political affect..) and AKINCI (passed the critical flight tests) we may say they have a dream... But they said and did...
If this design is created by US then most of us would say "ohhh super design and this bird flies perfectly and designers are marvellous team".
When we look at the general design of MIUS we may say that;
1. General design for a turbofan engined subsonic unmanned combat vehicle is promising brilliant design,
2. Structure is compact and probably will be easy to maintenance and repair,
3. Structure generally carbon composite with precious metal (titanium, Al alloy 7075 and 2024 and SS)
4. Drag coefficient (without cockpit and side air inlets) and RCS (diamond wing, cornered body shape, angled vertical stabilizers) should be low,
5. Maneuvering property would be agile with canards and double VT and canard design is first in Turkish aircraft design history,
6. Nose section is suitable for high speed, AESA radar and low RCS,
7. Lower section is designed for short take of effect and hidden weapon bays,
8. Exhaust section is special I think. Rear is intentionally left open because of to get low IR and cooler exhaust gas but also better aerodynamic performance with low amount of vortex, that section is specially designed and sealed,
9. To be able to land this UCAV on Anadolu LHD safely will be a wonderful software solution...
