T-129 Atak & Turkish Attack Helicopter Programs

[xxxKULxxx]

Any news abt Pakistan?

SSM official said that we have deals with 2 countries and working with 3rd one... Maybe Pakistan is one of them, i don't know... He didn't mention country names... I hope Pakistan gets it too...

BTW i say there are deals with 2 countries by looking SSM official's this word... "Paraflar atıldı"... It is initialed...

 

[Targon]

Apache is out of T 129's league, Cobras, and similar helis are in same league with T 129, its them it should compete, Apache is way too heavy.

 

[xxxKULxxx]

Indigenous engine for indigenous utility helicopter project started with TEI...

 

[xxxKULxxx]

Sikorsky T-70's cockpit will be designed and manufactured by ASELSAN... Also ASELSAN will export this cockpit to the world except US...

 

[xxxKULxxx]

MIZRAK-O isn't for T-129 ATAK... Am i right guys ?

 

[revojam]

MIZRAK-O isn't for T-129 ATAK... Am i right guys ?

No it is for T-129 as well as other platforms.

 

[cabatli_53]

Mızrak-O isn't designed to integrate Ataks and There won't be such a requirements as well. The main missile of Atak is Mizrak-U. "O" is designed to integrate on vehicles inside on own launchers mounted on own tripod. Mızrak-TE is going to be lighter variant of Mızrak-O which is going to be operated by just single soldier just like Javelin...

 

[xxxKULxxx]

Mızrak-O isn't designed to integrate Ataks and There won't be such a requirements as well. The main missile of Atak is Mizrak-U. "O" is designed to integrate on vehicles inside on own launchers mounted on own tripod. Mızrak-TE is going to be lighter variant of Mızrak-O which is going to be operated by just single soldier just like Javelin...

Yes, i thought same because we have T-129 that can go away from danger zone in a very short time and it can shoot target from a 8 km safe distance with MIZRAK-U... IMO it would be so wrong to use MIZRAK-Os on T-129...

MIZRAK-O is needed in battlefield like @cabatli_53 mentioned... By using it with some land vehicles and single soldiers... These 2(land vehicle & single soldier) can get enough close to targets & attack them in a very effective way...

 

[TuAFFalcon]

Are the amounts of ATAK enough?
I would of thought that with our mountainous areas we would of opted for a 100 and 25 optional or something.
How many we planing on producing currently?

 

[xxxKULxxx]

How many we planing on producing currently?

51+40 by now...

 

[TuAFFalcon]

51+40 by now...

How's that 40 looking?
What will decide the 40 options?

 

[xxxKULxxx]

How's that 40 looking?
What will decide the 40 options?

I don't know... But most probably 91 will be produced...

You can ask it to cabatli... He knows better...

 

[HRK]

Turkish Company Hopes To Build New Anka Engine


ANKARA — Turkish national engine specialist Tusas Turkish Engine Industries (TEI), which agreed to produce prototype engines for the country’s first indigenous UAV, has entered a partnership with GE Aviation and now anticipates export sales.

TEI has created a task force among its more than 200 design engineers to build a new engine for the Anka, Turkey’s indigenously developed drone, and some TEI engineers are working with GE Aviation’s engine designers in Turkey.

The program became more important when the expected engine provider became bankrupt and was bought by a company that would not provide the engines.

TEI officials said foreign sales could be possible within two years after the engine passes performance tests with the Anka.

“I think we may even sell the Turkish engine to the US to meet their engine needs in this category,” Mahmut Aksit, TEI’s general manager, told reporters.

A procurement official said engine exports may not be limited to the US.

“About 20 countries are designing or developing their own UAVs. An engine to power some of those may create a large market for TEI,” the official said. “Even if TEI wins contracts to power a few of those emerging drones, there will be a significant amount of business.”

Turkey’s procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), signed in December 2012 a contract with TEI to produce five prototype engines for the Anka. The design, production and certification tests would take four years, according to the contract.

The Anka is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drone. Such UAVs usually can operate for 24 hours at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Anka, meaning Phoenix, is the first MALE-type UAV to be produced by TAI. One of the prototypes crashed during a test flight in September but several other flight tests have been carried out successfully.

A version dubbed Anka+ calls for a rocket attached to its body and sensors.

Late last year, the Turkish government signed up with aerospace specialist Tusas Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) for an order of 10 Ankas and ground stations. Under the deal, the first serial production deliveries will take place between 2016 and 2018.

TEI wants to finish its engine work to fit into TAI’s production timetable. TEI’s engineers, apart from designing a new engine, are modifying Anka’s Centurion engine.

Chinese group Avic International’s acquisition last year of Thielert, a bankrupt German maker of diesel engines for aircraft, threatened the Anka program because Thielert’s Centurion engine would have powered the drone. TAI had originally ordered the Centurion for the 10 Ankas it will produce.

Avic said in August that it was merging Thielert into its Continental Motors division and was giving up military business. Deliveries had stopped, the state-run Chinese company announced.

Thielert was supplying engines for other aircraft, including a US Army version of the General Atomics Predator. TEI hopes its engine will replace the Centurion. But an Ankara-based defense specialist was cautious.

“TEI has said since 2005 that it would build an indigenous engine for the indigenous Turkish drone. I hope this time they really make it,” he said. “But they are right about the export potential. The government can use its regional political clout to help TEI win contracts. But first they must make the engine.”

 

[xxxKULxxx]

- 9 T-129 ATAK EDH will enter inventory in the following months...
- For a while 2 of them will be used for trainings...
- Since 2011 more then 3.200 hours test flight have been made...
- Nearly 5.000 rocket launchs have been made...
- T-129 ATAK will take place at Farnborough Airshow in 19-20 July 2014 and will perform a demonstration flight...


T129 Erken Duhul Helikopterlerinin üretimi tamamlandı

 

[Nomad16]

dudes can you tell me if T-129 could used on helicopter carrier ?? what anti ship missile do you have ? do we can fire it from T-129 ?