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Turkish Aerospace Industries (the manufacturer of Turkish F-16's) has developed a new UAV called the TIHA.






See Animation: YouTube - TIHA MALE UAV Animation

Introduction
The Turkish Indigenous MALE UAV (TIHA) system consists of air vehicles (A/V), Ground Control Station (GCS), Ground Data Terminal (GDT), Automatic Take-off and Landing System (ATOLS), Transportable Image Exploitation System (TIES), Remote Video Terminal (RVT) and various Ground Support Equipment (GSE).

The TIHA system, which is designed for night and day missions including adverse weather conditions, performs real time image intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, moving/stationery target detection, recognition, identification and tracking missions.

While the TIHA system has an open architecture to support other potential payloads and missions, within the context of the existing project the air vehicle is configured to carry the following payloads onboard:

Electro-optic Color Day Camera (ASELFLIR-300T EO),
Electro-optic/Infrared/Laser Camera (EO/IR/LRF/LD/Spotter) (ASELFLIR-300T),
SAR/GMTI, ISAR Payload.
4 x ROKETSAN developed CIRIT 78mm semi-active laser missiles (TIHA-B version)

The whole composite airframe is composed of a monoblock fuselage, detachable wing and V-Tail, retractable landing gear, redundant control surfaces, avionics and payload bays and service doors. The sandwich skin structure is reinforced by composite or metallic frames, ribs and supports. Propelled by a pusher type heavy fuel engine, the aircraft is furnished with fuselage fuel tanks and fuel system, ice protection system, environmental control system, lighting system, redundant electrical system with battery backup and harness system.

The platform is also equipped with a digital flight control system, electro-mechanical actuators, and flight control sensor systems such as pitot-static, air data computer, navigation sensor, transducers, temperature, pressure, displacement sensors, etc. Various tasks are distributed along flight management computers and auxiliary control boxes. Identification and communication units and interface computers are employed in order to establish real time wide band communication and provide test and diagnostics functions. An air traffic radio is also integrated in the communication system for the integration of the aircraft into the civilian airspace. All flight critical equipment are dual or triple redundant and emergency modes of operational scenarios are taken into consideration for fail safe design.

All flight software configuration items embedded on both the air and ground equipment are being developed indigenously by TAI. In a similar manner, all mission hardware and software are aimed to be developed by national sub-contractors, such as Aselsan.

Specifications:

Service ceiling: 30,000 ft
Endurance: 24 hours
Cruise speed: >75 kts
LOS communication range: >200 km
Fuselage Length: 11m
Detachable low-mounted wing span: 20.1m
Detachable V-tail span: 4.5m.
Maximum take-off weight:1,500kg (3,300lb) including provision for a 200kg weapons payload and 250kg of fuel.
Fuselage: All-composite
Engine: TUSAS designed and manufactured Turbo prop engine




Initial testing
http://www.tai.com.tr/images/galeri/m_GOZCU_FOTO_01.jpg

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