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2011-10-06 The Grand Turk

As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly.

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Posted by tipper 2011-10-06 11:42|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Insallah engineering at its finest.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-10-06 12:00|| 2011-10-06 12:00|| Front Page Top

#2 It is my understanding that Turkey did not choose to ground its Israeli UAVs, but rather that they needed Israeli crews to fly them, and Israeli crews to keep them flyable. It may not be only Turkish engineering which is failing there.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-06 12:23|| 2011-10-06 12:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet the Turks still tried to import some of the more complicated parts from Israel, Europe or the US.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-06 12:39|| 2011-10-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 You can see the Anka lineage in the General Atomics GNAT which Turkey operates. What the Turks have tried to do is scale the GNAT tech up to the MQ-1C Warrior's size using Turkish sensors and w/o the satellite dish in the nose. Explains that ridiculous nose landing gear as they tried to adhere to the Warrior's dimensions and still keep a similar center of gravity.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-06 13:13|| 2011-10-06 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 This smells just like Iran's latest "super fighter", that is a cut and paste job starting with an F-5 and adding in a V-tail and canards, with wider wings to carry more fuel. It has only ever been shown in a static display, because word is every time someone tries taxiing it on a runway, the nose gear collapses.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-10-06 16:23|| 2011-10-06 16:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Turkey is much more sophisticated than Iran. They do produce their own munitions and license produce sophisticated weapons like the F-16. Still Turkey likes to license produce near copies of other country's weapons and passes them off as their own. Bayraktar UAV

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-06 20:57|| 2011-10-06 20:57|| Front Page Top

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