I think the math becomes much more acceptable when you take reusability into account. And realistically, how many of those would you need? Maybe 4-5 aircraft to down tens of tb-2 class MALE UCAVs. It forces the enemy to come up with countermeasures, and it's cheap.
The "countermeasure" for that is already available to us in the form of Sungur, it is light enough, with its launcher and everything, to be used from any drone we have.
There's nothing that can't be improved, and there's certainly room for 600 -700 km/h with the turboprobs.
I think ANKA-3 is not agile so Acceleration, rate of climb are important for light attack aircraft,i agree.. but:
Tell that to US SOCOM, they are planning to buy fixed wing turbo prop planes to use as CAS and recon aircraft. I'm not saying they would replace the helicopters, or have exactly the same missions, but they can still be used by the army the way they use helicopters.
It would be shot down by the first manpad it comes across, just as 30+ Su-25s that have been shot down by Ukrainians.
So Aircrafts are absolute!!!
You're reaching so far even Dhalsim would be jealous. But thinking a turboprop plane can just shoot at infantry or artillery like that is naïve. When even the jets that engage from farther away are getting shot down a plane that is slower and has to get closer to use its cannons has very little survival chance against a regular army that uses manpads. It is waste of resources for the weird fetish of planes shooting cannons when close air support is done with missiles in long range, as long as you're against anyone that is better equipped than a terrorist with an AK.
We are talking about real life, not a computer game. Every loss is not only a loss of qualified pilots, which costs a lot of money and time to train, but also a waste of resources. War means casualties yes but it also means you also do everything in your power to limit those casualties. Not only do we not have the luxury of throwing lives and equipment away like Russia is doing in Ukraine, but also I fucking hope people in charge are smarter than that.
If we absolutely have to use Hürkuş against a regular army, which we wouldn't, we simply give it longer range munitions to keep it at least out of the range of manpads to increase its survivability. Tolun has about a 100 kms of range and weighs around 140 kgs for example. We have guidance kits for MK-81 bombs, we have Mam-T and soon will have IHA-230 and IHA-122.
Unmanned Hürkuş-C.We want also unmanned Hürkuş-C!!!!
I adore Unmanned Hürjet
Great work.
