TR Attack & Utility Helicopter Programs

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China doesnt need your engine tech.
AFAIK, Chinese engine tech far surpass its Turkish counterparts..... you can correct me on this one if Iam wrong though
Actually China seems to need any engine tech. They were very eager to buy Motor Sich, in spite of the dated tech they used.
There isn’t much known about their WS10 that powers the J20. But initial batches needed to go through engine changes after only 500hours’ flight. Later they reported that they went above 1000hours before engine change. But that is still far short of 8-9000 hours of flight achieved by western engines‘ performance of similar thrust level. (j10 manages 19000lbf dry and 30000lbf with A/B supposedly using single crystals at turbine section)
If they have improved further in the last few years, that is yet to come through the grapevine.
 
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They were very eager to buy Motor Sich, in spite of the dated tech they used.

There is often a large amount of (qualitative and quantitative) man hours invested into all kind of things in the "lower tiers" of RnD that are not so hot topic to talk about like apex stuff people sometimes assume is the only frontier or hindrance.

The pyramid apex and total height is not the only governing thing though for RnD, it is also its base and middle...often relooking at things that you think were settled and proven sometimes.
 

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Haven't seen any pictures of Gokbey flying with landing gears up, here's some from Teknofest
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The company is understaffed and trying to attract as many talent as possible but then pulls something like this. Way to go for PR! How should we interpret this? What is he doing there? I don't know how others feel but it's a disturbing sight for me.
He is just praying to god that the engineers should get to their goals without problems. I dont see there a problem. Muslim country, muslim people.
 

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The company is understaffed and trying to attract as many talent as possible but then pulls something like this. Way to go for PR! How should we interpret this? What is he doing there? I don't know how others feel but it's a disturbing sight for me.

Sometimes I ask myself why are we mixing religion with stuff designed to kill people. It gives a bad image in my opinion. Russia is also doing the same thing.
 

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