There will be several variants of the KE, twin engine, ghost, high speed etc. as. The TF6000 will probably be used in these.
Baykar is developing KE with Motor Sich engines. The final engine to be used is a derivative of the engines used in Chinese twin engined Hongdu JL-10 light attack/trainer jet. But these engines are of Soviet era technology. They were not built to be used in stealth planes. Or used in unmanned craft that can do manoeuvres that no manned jet can do. With sudden requirement of power and heavy loads on engines, the turbine blades and engine parts are going to be subjected to extreme stresses. This is when TF6000’s single crystal blades and new modern tech comes in to play.
Unfortunately it is normal practice for a private company to think of it’s bottom line profit before the needs of the country. If you are buying these engines at a very discounted price and have some form of organic connection with the company too, and the engine sort of meets the needs up to a point, you don’t look at more expensive solutions.
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That was the 1st real prototype,
I really hope those are place holders. While I found them actually suiting Akıncı, they ruin the look of a pristine jet.
You are looking at an unfinished work. Artists wouldn't be artists when if looked at their unfinished work alone.
They're probably the actual actuators but they don't have their fairings installed yet. Even the Akinci has fairings for these actuators and it isn't even a stealth plane, so I'm quite certain Kizilelma will have them. I imagine Baykar is working on LO fairings like what the F-22 has. Internal actuators like on the F-35 would've been even better but I guess they would've driven the price up too much for not much benefit over stealthy fairings.
Enemy from the deep!
uav launching sonobuoys and listening capability
brilliant! but they will need air superiority first to safely conduct this kind ASW operation.
Yes, but that's the case with manned aircraft even more
