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[Era_shield]

In this video they answer the question of how they made such big improvements without changing the engine: the main reason is improved airfoil profile on the wings, secondary reason is a small increase in wing area.

 

[Fachfouch]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1401488856541708293

 

[Oublious]

Another potenial customer...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1401845841904783363

 

[Anmdt]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1401936863095660548

Is he really Minister of Defense of Latvia?
I think it has passed "potential" stage but in realization step.

 

[Spook]

TB2 purchase by eastern European countries has become way of statement against Russia.

We should market TB2 as an lifestyle, counterculture. It has sex appeal.

 

[comolokko]

interesting work (need to confirm)

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1400027311441915919

 

[Nutuk]

interesting work (need to confirm)

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1400027311441915919

What exactly are we looking at? Rain drops?

 

[kimov]

What exactly are we looking at? Rain drops?

Star trails from a long exposure astro photography. One additional light source is also present in the picture which someone interprets as TB2 but it could be anything really. We could calculate the exposure time and radius from the star trails to see if it could be TB2 or just a small quad-copter.

Edit: it looks like 120s exposure so the air-craft needs to make a full circle in that time. I would assume that it is a small quad-copter at short distance but it could be TB2 if it makes a very tight curve with 1.0-1.5km radius.

Advanced Astrophotography Shutter Time Calculator

This calculator goes beyond the basic “500 rule” to determine the best shutter time for non-tracked astrophotography on a fixed tripod. Rather than just focal length, this calculator al…

www.lonelyspeck.com

 

[Zafer]

Star trails from a long exposure astro photography. One additional light source is also present in the picture which someone interprets as TB2 but it could be anything really. We could calculate the exposure time and radius from the star trails to see if it could be TB2 or just a small quad-copter.

Edit: it looks like 120s exposure so the air-craft needs to make a full circle in that time. I would assume that it is a small quad-copter at short distance but it could be TB2 if it makes a very tight curve with 1.0-1.5km radius.

Advanced Astrophotography Shutter Time Calculator

This calculator goes beyond the basic “500 rule” to determine the best shutter time for non-tracked astrophotography on a fixed tripod. Rather than just focal length, this calculator al…

www.lonelyspeck.com

The trail is very smooth so it should be a winged drone which can maintain a smooth path. Also I guess it is a 30 second trail as many cameras have that much exposure at max and is a common exposure length for sky photography. So the full circle time is longer and is likely to match Bayraktar characteristics.

 

[kimov]

The trail is very smooth so it should be a winged drone which can maintain a smooth path. Also I guess it is a 30 second trail as many cameras have that much exposure at max and is a common exposure length for sky photography. So the full circle time is longer and is likely to match Bayraktar characteristics.

You can do any time exposure you want with all DLSRs with something called bulb-exposure since ages, it is the setting after 30s on your camera. I did mine first bulb-exposure some 40years ago with old analog films. 10-30s is commonly used for stacked astro photos to avoid trails.

Here are some examples of trails.
https://www.jamesvernacotola.com/star-trails-exposure-time-examples/

There is one more information in the pictures which I did not mention. The air-craft has red+white flashing light on wings so I agree that it seem to be a fixed-wing air-craft doing a tight turn.

 

[Zafer]

You can do any time exposure you want with all DLSRs with something called bulb-exposure since ages, it is the setting after 30s on your camera. I did mine first bulb-exposure some 40years ago with old analog films. 10-30s is commonly used for stacked astro photos to avoid trails.

Here are some examples of trails.
https://www.jamesvernacotola.com/star-trails-exposure-time-examples/

There is one more information in the pictures which I did not mention. The air-craft has red+white flashing light on wings so I agree that it seem to be a fixed-wing air-craft doing a tight turn.

Amateur cameras have up to 30 seconds. Stacking astro photos is a pro thing. I said SKY photography instead of astrophotography to make it more amateur friendly. You do more seconds if you want to get a trail.

 

[Combat-Master]

2017 Anka-S

2020 Anka-S

 

[Yasar_TR]

2017 Anka-S
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2020 Anka-S
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You can see the differences in wing and landing gear straight away.
One question though: If only 28 Anka’s have been delivered to date, how come in 2020 there is one with No 49 stamped on it, ready to fly?

 

[dustdevil]

It’s in Turkish but interesting... the talk is about UN report on Kargu and following media coverage.

 

[Test7]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1402229738022789125

 

[Zafer]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1402229738022789125

Haluk Bayraktar is a diplomat by trade.

 

[Yasar_TR]

AKSUNGUR İHA Sonobuoy atışına hazırlanıyor

AKSUNGUR İnsansız Hava Aracı, Sonobuoy atışına hazırlanıyor. Sonobuoy’un hem atışının hem de dinlenmesinin, AKSUNGUR tarafından gerçekleştirilmesi planlanıyor.

www.savunmasanayist.com

Aksungur is getting ready for sonobuoy launching. This is the first step towards effective ASW.

 

[Quasar]

AKSUNGUR İHA Sonobuoy atışına hazırlanıyor

AKSUNGUR İnsansız Hava Aracı, Sonobuoy atışına hazırlanıyor. Sonobuoy’un hem atışının hem de dinlenmesinin, AKSUNGUR tarafından gerçekleştirilmesi planlanıyor.

www.savunmasanayist.com

Aksungur is getting ready for sonobuoy launching. This is the first step towards effective ASW.
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Kind of excited with no reason this Aksunger has a black tail as well SAR radar + sonobuoy + some kind of magnetic anomaly detector? do we have any known project? US had a project, an UAV with magnetic anomaly detector but theirs is micro UAVs which are air deployed from a sonobuoy launcher aboard the P-8A aircraft

 

[Anmdt]

Kind of excited with no reason this Aksunger has a black tail as well SAR radar + sonobuoy + some kind of magnetic anomaly detector? do we have any known project? US had a project, an UAV with magnetic anomaly detector but theirs is micro UAVs which are air deployed from a sonobuoy launcher aboard the P-8A aircraft

A nice sensor platform with sonobuoys, SAR for surface scans and MAD for submarine detection. And another platform is now needed to carry medium range AShM and winged LWT.
Major advantage, this thing can loiter more than a day near to two with those payloads. Now it is all up to configuring a MPA to communicate with Aksungur and Ulaq ASW and have consoles installed for remotely viewing the data collected by it, and processing it either onboard,or on the manned mothership.

One Manned MPA can oversee several Aksungur MPA and Ulaq ASW, folding the operational-observation area, folding amount of sensors, making bi-static uses avaliable.

 

[Bogeyman]

This is Göksungur UCAV. At the end of the year, the scale version will take off for tests.
I confirmed the design in the picture to my friend in TUSAŞ.

Üniversitelere milli savaş uçağı görevi | son dakika Ankara haberleri

Üniversitelere milli savaş uçağı görevi, son dakika Ankara haberleri

www.star.com.tr

By the way, the picture dates back 2 years