SleeveofWizard
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I don't know... But UCAV is not an easy technology. Look at to Israel for example. They began with tactical UAVs (Searcher etc) After all this years now they have Heron-TP Eitan... Turkey started with mini-UAV's... We designed tactical UAV's after that... (Bayraktar) After all this years now we have Aksungur, And soon we will have Akinci and Mius (Jet powered)
Could we just skip all this steps and directly go for Akıncı and MIUS? My anwer is no. Maybe you can create a miracle, but most probably you will fail. This is my personal opinion, and don't take it as an insult.
Well, yea maybe you are right, who knows. But we really have no other choice. We actually have a very small military budget for this type of stuff, since 80% goes into salary and pension of troops, so we don't have the luxury to devote money to several projects at the same time. I would have liked them to attempt to build a smaller jet engine drone first after completing the junk Rustom 2(or better yet, abandon Rustom 2 altogether), then build something actually good, like the Grip Reaper. But it seems they will directly be attempting Jet engine stealth Aura with indigenous Kaveri engine . Full marks for optimism though...
Now on to the topic, what do you think was the cost of this lazer kill? I would assume it uses enormous amounts of power, probably drains an entire battery cell. Is it lesser than just shooting it down with a manpad?
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