Jet-powered warplanes reach the operation area very fast, but they have to drop the bombs and return immediately. because it can stay in the air for 2-3 hours without refueling. But the uav don't have to arrive quickly on the scene. It can stay in the air for a long time. If you keep the uav in the air all the time, you eliminate the speed disadvantage of the uav. In Diyarbakir airbase, 15-20 akıncı can undertake most of the ground operations.
If the 2x1000 horsepower version of Akıncı can keep a 2000 kg bomb load in the air for 12 hours, it can undertake most of the ground operations.. 2000 kg means 2 neb bombs and we have no other bombs heavier and more effective than this. Let the tb-2s detect and convey the coordination to the akıncı, and the akıncı will drop bombs on the targets. At the end of 12 hours, the other akıncı will take off. or hold 2 akıncı uavs in the air at the same time, load bombs of different weights. Configure the UAV according to whatever you ultimately need.
Most of what you write is correct. But it is not the whole story.
For operations within or close proximity to our borders what you propose is doable.
But operating the drones in another country’s air space is another kettle of fish.
We mustn’t deceive ourselves; We need to get our facts right. These drones are not as exactly as what they are portrayed. Without any payload and full tank they go up to 40000ft and some of them may even stay up there for a reasonably long time.
But with full load, their altitude or their stay at air time is severely compromised.
So it is a compromise between; in the airtime/payload/altitude.
Anyone thinking that drones are going to replace a full fledged fighter jet, is deceiving himself big time. If that were the case including US, all the countries capable of producing advanced drones would have switched to drones from jet fighters.
That will start to happen after MIUS! Hopefully!
A small and because of that a stealthy drone like TB2, flying at 20000ft at a comparatively slow speed will be deadly to enemy ground positions at the front lines. Especially if it can be supported with good EW systems.
But Akinci and Aksungur are big birds and are difficult to hide.
Away from our boarders they need to have very good EW support to survive.
In fact if you check how all drones are used; you will find that they are predominantly at front lines. Not for deep strike missions. Unless you have full air superiority and the enemy skies are devoid of AD systems, it would be short of suicide to push drones in to deep enemy territory.
Akinci has flown for 25hours at 38000ft with no payload.
Then it has flown with full load (1360kg) and managed to stay in air for 13.5 hours at a maximum altitude of 30000ft. It is still a good feat of achievement. But not comparable to 2.2 Mach jet plane flying at an altitude of 60000ft.
(The F-4 has set 16 records for speed, altitude and time-to-climb. It established the world altitude record at 98,556ft in 1959 and speed record at 1,604mph on a 15-mile circuit in 1961.)
So please don’t compare a turboprop drone with an old beast like Phantom F4. Two different worlds!
Bayraktar AKINCI TİHA (Taarruzi İnsansız Hava Aracı), resmi heyetlerin önünde toplam 3000 libre (1.360 kilogram) faydalı yükle 13 saat 24 dakika uçuş gerçekleştirdi. - Anadolu Ajansı
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