Sky is the limit - the term used by the US corporate folks....If this collaboration continues, who knows turkey might venture into ballistic missle tech pretty soon, if u knw what i mean
These are the last of nails in the coffin of Cold Start Doctrine although whether it is at all needed can be debated...
cheers, the middleeast needs a nuclear turkey asap...We'd certainly appreciate any help we can get from our Pakistani brothers. Turkey is currently working on developing a satellite launcher. Once we have that pretty much all that's missing toward an ICBM will be reentry technology and "a warhead with some kick".
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AH-1Z Viper, Mi-35M ???
That was to be the case if it passed the tests. The ATAK did and came out on top. Some fanboy edited wiki but no one corrected it later after Z 10s failure.
The Z-10's MTOW is apparently 500 kg heavier than the T129. However, it doesn't appear to be much - if any - difference in the payload. 'Heavy' attack helicopters would be the AH-1Z (MTOW: 8,400 kg), Mi-28NE (MTOW: 10,900 kg) and Rooivalk (8,750 kg). Each has its advantage. The AH-1Z is already in place, so additional units won't strain the logistics set-up. The Mi-28NE shares the same engine platform as the Mi-171. Denel is marketing the Rooivalk 2 with ToT and co-production.
And, ATAK-II will belong to the "heavy" category!!! Once Pak has established the manufacturing, R&D, maintenance etc. set-ups it'll be linearly incremental efforts...
Ismail Demir said the ATAK 2 would have a MTOW of 6,000 kg, but prior to that, Temel Kotil said they were designing an ATAK variant with a MTOW of 8,000 kg.
