I don't remember where but as if Akşit hoca would consider to develop a kind of TS3000 turboshaft engine to use T925 and T929 helicopters. Although there is no any news about that, maybe it is still under development. Who knows!
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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 easier alternatives can be utilized than the making of such an engine will keep being postponed.I don't remember where but as if Akşit hoca would consider to develop a kind of TS3000 turboshaft engine to use T925 and T929 helicopters. Although there is no any news about that, maybe it is still under development. Who knows!
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.3 engine config would completely change the entire gearbox and transmission, which is basically building a new helicopter.
They're gonna have to eventually, we can't move on medium size helicopters with Mi-17 engines. Apart from being wholly different than what we are building with TS1400, TV3 engine is also ancient. T929 and T925 is a dead end without local 2400+ hp engines.I don't remember where but as if Akşit hoca would consider to develop a kind of TS3000 turboshaft engine to use T925 and T929 helicopters. Although there is no any news about that, maybe it is still under development. Who knows!
They get beween 11-18% of defence budget. In US, navy and air force are both about 35%.You can use T625 with TS1400 as a stand in for S70, but it will never replace the versatility S70 have. So far, we are not building a S70 replacement with T925 now being at 12k tons, and T700 engine replacement is not even announced.
So yeah, I agree that a huge bottleneck is right around the corner and it will hit gendarme and army aviation hard in the next 10 years, while navy aviation will start feeling the bottleneck as more platforms become online, again in a similar 10 year timeframe. We love to talk about navy plans and how they are always one step ahead but remember, Meltem program was also run by the navy.
I am more hopeful for Naval variant, but it's unlikely it will carry all the payloads Seahawk carry at once which is a limitation. I am more concerned about land operations where it will have to face stringers and gunfire.The reason I am sharing the specs of the Super Lynx is to showing how capable a navalized variant of the T625 can be. Two helicopters in the same class with similar MTOW and flight endurance, similar volumes, using the same powerpack range.
It is an improved variant of Westland Super Lynx to serve in the battlefield utility, search and rescue and anti-surface warfare roles. The type can perform aerial reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), utility, fire control, command and control, and troop transport duties. The type is also reported to possess significant ISTAR capabilities
- It is powered by two 1,362 hp (1,016 kW) LHTEC CTS800 turboshaft engines which drives the rotorcraft's BERP IV rotor blades
- airframe has been marinised for operations in the naval environment and provides for a greater airframe lifespan of 12,000 flight hours.
- Wheeled undercarriage is also strengthened for naval landings
- Increased use of composites in the aircraft, including the tailboom
- A Wildcat can carry four launchers, each with five Martlets. It can also carry 4x Sea Venom (FASGW Heavy) missiles for engagement against land targets.
- It is used by various navies with Sting Ray torpedoes and Mk.11 depth charges, K745 Blue Shark torpedoes and Spike NLOS ATGM-based antiship missiles.
- The avionics package includes TDL-16 capability as well as a wide range of systems such as AESA X band radar and sonobuoy dispensers.
The Gökbey helicopter, with its indigenous power group, could be the most suitable solution for the navy. Not the most ideal, but as cost-effective as possible in really large numbers. Instead of waiting until we have the capacity to produce the ideal, I am in favor of utulitizing the possibilities as fast as possible.I am more hopeful for Naval variant, but it's unlikely it will carry all the payloads Seahawk carry at once which is a limitation. I am more concerned about land operations where it will have to face stringers and gunfire.
Safer? I actually doubt it. In mechanical systems, the increase in the number of moving parts also increases the risk of failure. Since a transmission operated by 3 engines would be more complex, I think this power group would not be safer in total.A 3 engine helicopter is safer as when one engine fails you still have 67% of engine power in place while one of the 2 engine son a 2 engine helicopter fails you only have 50% of the power remaining. In this case the 3 engine machine completes the mission but a 2 engine machine needs to abort.
The likelihood of an engine failure is the same in both systems and a transmission is a far simpler system that an engine. So comparing 67% power to 50% power left when an engine fails the remaining engines are not overloaded in the 3 engine system while the remaining single engine on a twin engine system gets overloaded and can only run a short amount of time. This makes the single engine system very unsafe and if you do not abort and return base in time you can fail the remaining single engine. And this is not only my opinion, I read about it being safer.Safer? I actually doubt it. In mechanical systems, the increase in the number of moving parts also increases the risk of failure. Since a transmission operated by 3 engines would be more complex, I think this power group would not be safer in total.
However, since our engine companies are busy with developing of turbofan engines, meeting our helicopter needs is only possible with a transmission operated by 3 engines.