Program officials from the model ATAK development team has provided more details in Turkey T129 attack helicopter program, as in the first sample completed the first flight.
Conducted in the AgustaWestland facility in Vergiate in Italy on 28 September, an important event involved planes P1, the first of five models to be produced in the framework of Turkish Aerospace Industries, led by the program.
Powered by LHTEC T800A - 4 engines is one of the three T129s will be built in basic configuration, with others to engage in Vergiate final assembly in March and July 2010 respectively.
Groups for this program and are the so-called Turkey configured models unique and will be delivered to Tai in April and August 2010. This standard production airframes will undergo assembly, integration, testing and trials in Turkey.
And will review the critical design aircraft for both versions concluded in the second quarter of next year, and all five models should fly by mid-2011. "The joint program is at the time and cost and achievements of the scheduled program," says AgustaWestland CEO Giuseppe Orsi.
Turkey has ordered 50 T129s production and has options on another 41. The aircraft will be equipped with a Turkish-made systems, including the electronics, and forward-looking infrared sensors, and cockpit avionics mission computer Aselsan, and weapon systems of Roketsan.
Tai, the director in January Dortkasli says the first T129 ATAK model will be handed over to the Turkish armed forces in the third quarter of 2013. Turkey will be responsible for international marketing and sales to design, and industry sources say many of the countries are already evaluating the product, including Jordan and Pakistan.
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"The program helicopter is one of the main projects for Turkey's defense industry boom, and would include not only the transfer of advanced technology, but also to integrate the various arms of locally-developed communications systems. Moreover, because Turkey will have to Tai exclusive rights to market and sell the final product in all around the world, this project is particularly attractive for Turkey. Through these and other weapons programs, and ambitious national, it aims to come out as a major player in the global arms industry. Pakistan Malaysia and United Arab Emirates. UAE, Jordan, reportedly expressed interest in buying the T-129 (Anatolia Ajansı 25 September
TAI general director Muharrem Dortkasli says Pakistan and Jordan are already Evaluating t-129 ATAK.
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DATE: 01/10/09
SOURCE: Flight International
ATAK team outlines progress of Turkey's T129 project, after first flight success
By Luca Peruzzi