UAV / UCAV - Drohnen

[Quintus Fabius]

Erste Infor zur neuen türkischen TB-3 Drohne:

https://warisboring.com/turkish-company-...air-force/

“Bayraktar TB3 will be larger than the current TB2 model and will be able to land and take off from warships. The first flight of TB3 is scheduled for 2022,” Bayraktar said.

Die Akindschi (Renner und Brenner) - eine interessante Namenswahl wenn man bedenkt was diese Truppe historisch war:

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/08/a-...rfare.html

The Bayraktar Akıncı unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) introduces a number of novel capabilities to the field of unmanned aerial warfare. These include several features not seen on any other type of UAV in the world before, most notably the ability to launch 250+km-ranged high-precision cruise missiles and beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles (BVRAAMs) at targets as far as 100 kilometres away. These capabilities in practice turn the Akıncı into the first production multi-role unmanned combat aircraft in the world.

Although already an unusually diverse platform, the Akıncı's huge payload capacity of 1.500kg, the variety of its weapon loadouts and its 24+-hour endurance mean that it is also well suited to take over many of the ground attack missions currently assigned to Turkey's 240-strong F-16 fleet.

As Baykar continues weapons systems integration on the Akıncı, several types of guided munitions are currently being tested to verify their use from the new platform. This already included the MAM-T with a range of just under 40km (compared to upwards of 14km on the MAM-L). The MAM-T will serve alongside the Teber, LGK, KGK and (L)HGK family of precision-guided munitions also destined for use on the Akıncı. These munitions consist of indigenously designed guidance kits mated to locally produced Mark-82, Mark-83 and Mark-84 iron bombs.

Especially the 900kg weighing Mark-84 is a daunting piece of armament, and also the heaviest bomb ever to be integrated on a drone. When fitted with a GPS/INS guidance kit, the bomb is known as the HGK-84. The HGK-84 can attain ranges of up to 28km (or 22km when launched from lower altitude), while a different variant known as the LHGK-84 is fitted with a laser-guidance kit for increased accuracy. [3] Yet another variant, the NEB-84, is a (guided) penetrator bomb designed for use against hardened surface and underground targets such as bridges and bunkers.

To accommodate the seemingly endless variety of munitions, the Akıncı features up to eight underwing hardpoints and another one under its fuselage for a total of nine hardpoints.

Arguably the most innovative aspect of the Akıncı is its future capability to use air-to-air missiles (AAMs), consisting of the indigenous Bozdoğan IR-guided AAM and the (fire-and-forget) Gökdoğan BVRAAM, which uses an active solid-state radar to guide itself towards its target. The Akıncı's AESA radar should enable it to autonomously pick out its targets at great range, and then engage them to hunt enemy slow-flying aircraft, drones and helicopters and to guard other drones. Though BVRAAM-armed Akıncıs would present a greater challenge than most air forces could hope to face, medium-range AAMs like the Bozdoğan could present a threat even to opposing fighter aircraft, being fast, very manoeuvrable (having off-boresight capabilities) as well as highly resistant to electronic countermeasures.

Eine zwingende Schlußfolgerung ist, dass man sehr viel mehr und sehr viel leistungsfähigere EloKa am Boden braucht und dies auf allen Ebenen. Die andere ist, dass man mehr Systeme welche man sonst nicht so dafür andenken würde (Artillerie) zur Luftraumverteidigung befähigen muss. Haubitzen müssen auch gegen Luftziele einsetzbar sein (Artillerie benutzt ohnehin Radar) und ebenso auch Raketenartillerie.