Baykar's came with a Turkish made engine and the support of thousands employees behind it for a difference. I am not sure how Kalkan will perform but I have seen small drones performing perfectly in gale force winds.
Definitely not a thousand, only a fraction of engineers work on Kalkan, like TAI sometimes spare a few. And working with a thousand engineers do not make a project magical thing to beat physics. It is about policy makers.
Those few engineers have the backing of thousands when they think they are lacking in their efforts. They also use the work of engineers that went into the subsystems they are using on that system. The resulting system would not be possible without the works of engineers that made the components that goes into their product.
In an ideal company and world, yes.
schiebel.net
In the VTOL urban air mobility industry people were skeptic that multicopters wouldn't stand a chance in adverse weather conditions but their view changed after they saw the video where a sailor lets go of a small drone from his hand out the door of a sail boat where the drone flies high, takes video of the boat from above and comes back in where the sailor catches the drone at the door. It is a weather where you don't want to step out the door to the deck. I couldn't find the video on the net with a quick look.In an ideal company and world, yes.
When it is bloated like TAI and recently Baykar, no.
What is high sea conditions to you? These kind of drones won't last sea state 2, a light breeze for most mariners.
I don't see Kalkan, Baha or any other that same old VTOLs matching this with electric lift rotors during take off or landing.
+ 25 knots at landing deck, higher than sea state 3.CAMCOPTER® S-100 Applications - Schiebel
All we need to do in 10 years;
A schiebel S100 like family of RIHA
A scaneagle like family of catapult launched UAV
I don't want to say that we can't or don't have resources for that, and this leaves only one last option.
Mate, you're cosplaying Sisyphus arguing with him, you'll never roll that boulder over that hill.In an ideal company and world, yes.
When it is bloated like TAI and recently Baykar, no.
What is high sea conditions to you? These kind of drones won't last sea state 2, a light breeze for most mariners.
I don't see Kalkan, Baha or any other that same old VTOLs matching this with electric lift rotors during take off or landing.
+ 25 knots at landing deck, higher than sea state 3.CAMCOPTER® S-100 Applications - Schiebel
All we need to do in 10 years;
A schiebel S100 like family of RIHA
A scaneagle like family of catapult launched UAV
I don't want to say that we can't or don't have resources for that, and this leaves only one last option.
Those quadcopters are "helicopter" in a sense, BAHA, KALKAN is not VTOL in the same way, they both have a huge wing area that would lead platform to tip over far greater than those VTOL blades can compensate, in case of a 25 kts cross wind.
S100 is tiny I would say even more compact than Kalkan or BAHA.:
Yeah with 2 kg of payload with 50 MTOW and vs: 50kg payload to 200 MTOW.
Kalkan can already do 12 hours as it is while Schiebel does half as much. While Kalkan has larger wingspan it does not need a catapult or recovery net to operate like the Scaneagle. Kalkan is more practical than others in every way. Easier to handle with a smaller weight than Schiebel too.
Yeah whatever man, check out the operators list for both scaneagle and schiebel and what a proven concept succeeds in comparison to one that has been around for too long and not much interesting for navies.
Quoting from April for my traditional T625 updates.
Altay of the skies.
