{"id":6793,"date":"2021-03-08T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:35:06","slug":"turkey-unveils-unmanned-attack-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/turkey-unveils-unmanned-attack-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey unveils unmanned attack helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T629 attack helicopter is currently under development by Turkish Aviation and Space Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkey has unveiled the preliminary prototype of its unmanned and electric version of the T629 helicopter, which is under development.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) exhibited the prototype of its all-electric, unmanned, six-ton T629 attack helicopter at TAI facility on February 25. The aircraft is expected to make its first flight later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The T629 helicopter project has been underway since 2017. &#8220;It will bring new technologies to the Turkish aerospace sector&#8221; Turkish media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The T629 could be potentially used for anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare (ASW), search-and-rescue, and to support Turkey&#8217;s existing manned T129 ATAK helicopters by flying reconnaissance\/scouting, light transport and reconnaissance missions<\/p>\n<p>TAI has not disclosed any details about the new aircraft&#8217;s electric propulsion system or other technology used for the prototype.<\/p>\n<p>TAI is currently working on four helicopter programs, and two of them are the five-ton T129 Tactical Reconnaissance and Attack Helicopter (ATAK) and the T70 General Purpose Helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s T129 multirole attack helicopter, based on the Leonardo A129 Mangusta helicopter, has been developed jointly by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). T129 is powered by two LHTEC T800-4A turboshaft engines, the export version of the CTS800 engine, developed by the American firm Honeywell and the British company Rolls-Royce.<\/p>\n<p>However, the country has also focused efforts on developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/defense\/turkeys-tei-ignites-2nd-prototype-of-domestic-helicopter-engine\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a80000;\">domestic engines<\/span><\/a> and Turkey&#8217;s first indigenous helicopter engine will power the T-625 G\u00f6kbey multirole helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T629 attack helicopter is currently under development by Turkish Aviation and Space Industry Turkey has unveiled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[256,295,235,82],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-aircraft","tag-helicopter","tag-technology","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/T629-attack-helicopter-under-development-by-the-Turkish-Aviation-and-Space-Industry-TAI.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Lz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}