Eight HJ10, uprated engine? but still no IR suppression on engine exhaust.
Said to be using uprated engines, more than 1,200 KW.
Eight HJ10, uprated engine? but still no IR suppression on engine exhaust.
Helicopter technology has not stalled in the US, it's plateaued as an industry. The plateau happened in the seventies, when the conventional helicopter design locked in. As long as you follow that form you are enhairently locked for performance specs. This is why there is no surpassing.The upgraded engines are likely the reason why it can carry more missiles. Helicopter engine development kinda stalled in the USA for decades so this is a field where China can quickly catch up with the West and perhaps even surpass it.
Man I wish my laptop was still working because this level of counter point is hell on typing with a touchscreen.Actually US helicopters IMHO degraded during like 2 decades.
Chinook never left production or service with the U.S. Army so I don't know where you pulled that out of.Notice how they had to put the Chinook back in service because their current helicopters couldn't operate at high altitudes
Apache is a conventional configuration helicopter with tail rotor Chinnook and Hokum are not. The tail rotor configuration of helicopters like apache was designed to counter rotational forces with thrust in the opposed direction of that rotation created by torque. This however increased drag and draws pier from the engines. Coaxial choppers like the Ka52 generate twice the lift as there rotors are more efficient in doubling the downward thrust since these rotors rotate counter to each other they also eliminate any torque effect.The Apache, for example, cruises at a lower speed than the Chinook, and has less max speed than the Hokum. It has worse power to weight than both of those helicopters.
again Wrong. The V22 Osprey was only ever to replace 1 helicopter for the Marines and it did that the CH46 Sea Knight. The CH53K is a heavy lift chopper and was always in the cards for the Marines. The V22 was never intended to replace UH1 or AH1. On the navy side the V22 was never intended to replace Sea Hawks. It was looked into as a possible replacement for fixed wing aircraft and is aimed to replace the C2 Greyhound.. Or how the V-22 Osprey was supposed to replace all naval helicopters, but then also because of performance in Afghanistan and other issues, the Navy had to fund the CH-53K upgrade among others
And still are but the aim as a tanker is more as a rapid roll on kit for the Marines. The MQ25 is for CVN decks.They even wanted to push the V-22 as a tanker at one point!
Wow... old school. The reasons often quoted are that the U.S. Army had made an agreement with the USAF not to operate at there levels of performance. This is bukiss the Cheyenne experienced a long list of problems and delays by the time it was ready to move to the next step the Cobra was online.The "novel" ideas of compound coaxial and tiltrotors are old hat, at least as old as the 1950s. In some cases they weren't used because fly-by-wire did not exist back then. In other cases such projects were cancelled in the US for political reasons (like the Cheyenne
Modern Apache and Cobra models use the same engines performance differences between them are all but neglegable when you consider that Cobra sacrifices systems for range and speed. The long bow radars, secondary targeting systems colapsable landing gear, even the way the two are built is different as the two are designed for different needs. Apache emphasis is survivability. The landing gear is designed to absorb shock in a crash the armor is more around the cockpit. Where Cobra pushes more scouting and maritime survival.It is more heavy and has less powerful engines. Heck the AH-1Z Viper beats the Apache in flight performance across the entire flight envelope with worse engines just because it's lighter
Again Wrong. The AH1Z and UH1Y were not being replaced by AH64E or UH60, they are counterparts. The Marines chose not to by Seahawk the Navy chose to. The Marines are able to make there own choices on what they by. It's not one or of the other it's both.If you compare helicopter upgrades like the AH-1Z Viper and the UH-1Y Venom to their supposed replacements, the AH-64 Apache and the S-60 SeaHawk, they have more or less the same performance. Sometimes even worse. Which is quite sad really
Again Wrong. The Blackhawk has been suplimented due to mission demands by National guard yes.Engine performance is an issue at high altitudes. That is why the US has had a program to replace the Blackhawk's engine for quite some time now.
Again WRONG!! Eurocopter has been making the same helicopters since the seventies. American makers have built dozens of different designs being the same 3. And flyby wire has only in the last few years been added to Helicopters as a whole including Blackhawk.The US also lost a large chunk of the commercial helicopter market because they basically sold the same models with little modifications for like 3 decades. In the meanwhile Eurocopter brought fly-by-wire to commercial helicopters and gained a lot of market share because of that.
More wrong. Two Tiltrotors have been indeveloupment until the V280 The V22 and Bell Agusta now Leonardo 609. It did take a lot of investment but MV22 have not just been deployed they have faced combat. And come out intact. They have been forward based and naval based and shined.Too much money was invested by the US on the tilt-rotor project and too much was expected of it. In the end it does not meet several requirements for operation in austere environments. Nor does it have the payload capacity it was originally designed to have partly because of that.
Sorry but wrong againWith a lot less money than what was spent on the tilt-rotor the helicopters could have had vast improvements in IR and acoustic stealth, high-altitude performance, and payload capacity, not to mention cruise speeds
Oh god... my sides are splitting...Modern turbine engine technology has advanced in leaps and bounds since 1973 when the General Electric T700 turbine was put into service
Guys, we seem to be drifting a little...