Turkey’s future unmanned aircraft MIUS to operate on LHD Anadolu

[SeaEagle]

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Artistic rendering of MIUS taking of from LHD Anadolu

Turkish drone-maker, BAYKAR Defence, introduced the unmanned aircraft MIUS (means Milli Insansiz Ucak Sistemi-National Unmanned Aircraft System) on 20th July on Twitter. They made the announcement on the first day of Eid, and declared it as a gift.

According to the rendering Baykar shared, MIUS will take off from LHD Anadolu, which is planned to be converted into a drone-carrier ship after Turkey was removed from the F-35 project with CAATSA sanctions.

Baykar had announced that they have been working on a brand-new drone model, TB-3 Bayraktar, and the head of Turkish Defence Industries told the press that LHD Anadolu is planned to carry 30-50 drones and will be able to control 10 drones in the air.

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After Baykar’s announcement Selcuk Bayraktar, Chief Technology Officer of Baykar, stated on a video he released on Twitter that MIUS will be able to fly around 1 mach speed.

“The payload capacity will be around 1500-2000 kilograms and able to launch various missiles including air-to-air, air-to-surface and cruise missiles,” Selcuk Bayraktar said.

“MIUS will be the first step of the unmanned fighter aircraft of the future. It will feature sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms” Bayraktar added.

Mius

 

[T-SaGe]

Blok-1 Specs:

Maximum Takeoff Weight: +3.5 tons
Payload: 1.5 Tons (inside the fuselage + under the wing)
Typical Mission Endurance: 5 Hours
Service ceiling: 40,000 ft
Cruise speed: High Subsonic, 900 km/h

> AESA radar and next-generation avionics, sensor fusion
> Internal weapon stations and stealth flight capability
> Take off from LHD without catapult assist, landing with arresting gear
> AI (fully autonomous) flight and maneuverability
> Aggressive maneuverability and air-air oriented design with delta canard and vertical stabilizers.
> Increased payload and 1.4 mach cruise speed on Block-2
> One of the world's first examples of dog-fight and interceptor drones
> First flight in 2023

 

[FuturePAF]

The carrier may need to be modified to add an angled deck, so landings can be done with an arresting wire and have the ability to do go around should the drone not be able to catch the arresting wires. Similar to the proposed Chinese 075 LHD evolving into the Type 076 design.

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

@JamD It looks like a loyal wingman UCAV that'll double as an LHD ops aircraft.

 

[FuturePAF]

@JamD It looks like a loyal wingman UCAV that'll double as an LHD ops aircraft.

Americans (at least this old tomcat RIO says) are (or should be) considering “Jeep Carriers” again with Emals for Loyal wingmen