Turkey flies first ATAK 2 heavy combat helicopter
 

Film of it airborne in the link.

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More information and a close up look at it.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ack-helicopter

Is that a Wessex? Good on the Turks for building such a helicopter. Strewth, it is not a good looking chopper.

It does have a Wessex-like profile to it. The wheels are fixed, the engines are hanging out the sides and there's those big 'wings' so if it remains with that shape then I imagine it'll have some great space inside for military avionics, weapons and self-defence capabilities. The pilot seems so high up. Maybe it can hold a few people inside its belly.

Here is another video of its firs flight here


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Le Bourget
 

I know it’s a mock up but went for a walk around Brief on the ATaK 2 yesterday here at Le Bourget so here are my pics.


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Looks like an ugly mosquito!

Vertical tail looks rather flimsy. Interesting to see its max sideward speed and yaw rate envelope.

This is the Denel Rooivalk(South African) from the early 90s. In one of it's advertising shots, the tagline was: "In our business, sometimes things get ugly"

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....96f73cb1f1.jpg

Well I think it looks pretty damn cool !! Nice job Turks.