Chinese Engine Development
- Thread starter jackbh
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I imagine there's a thriving, indeed burgeoning, market for these engines in Central Asia. Mainly for onward sale...
You can see the specifications and photos of a turbojet powered Shaheed-136 in the last picture.
$6500 for 40kg of thrust is not expensive to re-engine a Shaed 136.
The question that kills: how many units produced per month?
consumption of 60l per hour!
Yep.
If you look at the Shaheed-136, it's a 37KW MD-550 engine. That works out to 37kN of thrust
So a 40 kg Turbojet works out as 400 kNof thrust.
If a Shaheed flies at 180km/h with the MD-550, then 400 kN of thrust would be about 400? km/h.
But the endurance would drop to about 2 hours.
flying weight 180kg, turbojet thrust 70kg consumption of the 50kg thrust turbojet 9.8g/s (45l/hour) 50kg load
$6500 for 40kg of thrust is not expensive to re-engine a Shaed 136.
The question that kills: how many units produced per month?
consumption of 60l per hour!
1000 per month
A lot of small turbo engine makers sprouted after PLA started to give target drones contracts to private companies. A testimony to how intense PLA's live fire training has become.