Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) delivered the third Aksungur unmanned fight aerial car to the Turkish Navy on August 04, 2022. The Turkish Navy acquired its first Aksungur UCAV on 20 October 2021, and the second 28 March 2022. After supply, the drone stock of the Turkish Navy elevated to 21, three Aksungur UCAVs, ten TB2-BAYRAKTAR UCAVs, 4 ANKA-S UAVs, and 4 ANKA-B UAVs. The TAI Aksungur is an unmanned aerial car (UAV) constructed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) for the Turkish Armed Forces. Utilizing current know-how from the TAI Anka collection of drones, it’s the producer’s largest drone with payload capability for mission-specific tools. It’s supposed for use for long-term surveillance, indicators intelligence, maritime patrol missions, or as an unmanned fight aerial car.
The plane is 12 m (39 ft) lengthy and three m (9.8 ft) excessive when resting on its touchdown gear. The high-mounted wings have a slight dihedral angle and a wingspan of 24 m (79 ft).[1] The wings finish with small winglets. The centralized fuselage is below the wings and homes avionics, digicam and sensors techniques, with a chin-mounted digicam blister. Gas is saved within the fuselage and wings. A turbocharged engine is mounted below every wing, with the engine nacelles every extending backward right into a tail growth. These tail booms terminate in vertical stabilizers, with a horizontal tailplane becoming a member of them. The tricycle touchdown gear retracts into the engine nacelles and the nostril of the plane whereas in flight.
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The TAI Aksungur is powered by two forward-mounted PD-170 dual-turbocharged diesel engines developed by Tusa? Engine Industries (TEI), outfitted with three-bladed propellers in a tractor (puller) configuration. In keeping with the producer, these allow the Aksungur to cruise at a most velocity of 180 km/h (110 mph) and carry a most payload of 750 kg (1,650 lb) to an altitude of 25,000 ft (7,600 m), or ascend to 35,000 ft (11,000 m) with a 150 kg (330 lb) payload. The plane’s designed most payload is 375% larger than that of its predecessor; its most takeoff weight is 3,300 kg (7,300 lb). It’s rated to remain aloft 12 hours as an assault plane or maritime patrol plane and 24 hours throughout indicators intelligence missions.
Distant management of the UAV is carried out by DO-178B appropriate software program on DO-254 appropriate floor management station and {hardware} utilizing double backed-up encrypted digital information hyperlink. Non-compulsory beyond-visual-range operation flexibility is accessible through communications satellite tv for pc. TAI expects to combine weapon techniques typical of F-4 and F-16 fighter plane onto Aksungur within the final quarter of 2019. Three hardpoints are located below every wing for attaching exterior payloads, equivalent to munitions or sonar buoys. These hardpoints are rated for a great deal of 150, 300 and 500 kg (330, 660 and 1,100 lb). Proposed armaments embody TEBER-81 (laser-guided bomb Mk-81), TEBER-82 (laser-guided bomb Mk-82), LUMTAS, MAM-L, Roketsan Cirit, MAM-C, HGK-3 (precision-guided munition), KGK (82) (winged guided package), and miniature bomb.
