Can pilots of TB2 since should be large in numbers , aslo fly the Akinci and kizilelma?
Ismail Demir has said that the twin engine configuration is being developed in parallel. Imagine what a beast it will become with two TF10000s. It will have more raw power(wet) than Gripen.
Afaik, Gripen uses RM16 which has wet power of 22000lbf.
Gripen 39 C & D use f404 RM12 engine which develops 18100lbf with afterburners.
There may be different parameters for KE piloting, I don't know, but I think the transition from TB-2 to AKINCI piloting will be extremely easy. Trainees are already selected from personnel who have basic pilot training and in some countries even piloting experience. In other words, pilots with ATPL training. The trainings that take place at Baykar facilities should largely cover drone piloting related areas, the use of interfaces and hardware familiarization, computer programming and mission planning. So I think a pilot who already has a TB-2 pilot certificate can get AKINCI certificate with a short orientation process.
I think TUSAŞ should help to Baykar with manufacturing technologies and techniques.
If we are talking about an aircraft with low RCS, how it is manufactured is as important as the design. If Baykar can manufacture the Kızılelma as in the F35, I think it will make a significant improvments in the RCS. Maybe Baykar can learn this himself, but getting help from a company that knows this can speed up and increas quality of their work even more. Baykar can pay money this company for this. Just like TUSAŞ got help from BAE Systems on MMU.
Why TUSAŞ will give it's opponent a critical technology?? Especially why a tskgv company will help a private company?? Maybe TUSAŞ should focus on its own air to air UCAV!!
Does TUSAŞ already have a study on air-air mius that can directly compete with the Kızılelma? Or do TUSAŞ plan to start a study on this subject in the short or medium term? Maybe two companies are deliberately avoiding producing two alternative products directly to each other?
TUSAŞ has air to air UCAV project, after akp era. TUSAŞ will produce it.
Baykar doesn't like Tusaş. Their statements show that. They are on good terms with Roketsan and Aselsan, that's what happens when there is competition.
It's the other way around even though Tusas is more professional about it. One works with their own resources, while the other sucked the state's resources for years.
