Turkey Orders Extra Attack Helicopters
ROME - Turkey has placed an order for nine T129 attack helicopters for 150 million euros ($208.6 million) from Italy's AgustaWestland, the company announced Nov. 8.
The contract, which includes spare parts, calls for assembly of the helicopters by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and delivery in basic configuration by mid-2012, the company said.
Turkey previously ordered 51 T129s for the Turkish Land Forces Command, which will be delivered beginning in 2013. The new order is to fill an urgent operational requirement.
AgustaWestland, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica group, said the critical design review for the overall T129 program would be completed shortly, following the conclusion of the system requirements review and preliminary design review in 2009.
The batch of 51 helicopters will be armed with the Turkish-designed UMTAS missile. Prototypes of the missile are being assembled in Italy and Turkey, and they will start their flight test program in January.
تركيا ستشترى 9 مروحيات هجوميهT129 من أوجوستا الإيطاليه بتكلفة 150 مليون يورو
المروحيه تخدم فى الجيش التركى
وسيتم تسليحها بنظام صواريخ من تصميم تركيا
وستعمل المروحيه مع القوات البريه التركيه
وإجمالى ما طلبته تركيا من هذه المروحيه 51
نظام الصواريخ التركى المضاد للدبابات UMTAS Long Range Antitank Missile System
Weight 37.5 kg Length 175 cm Diameter 16 cm Warhead Insensitive Anti-armor Tandem Warhead Engine Solid-fuel rocket
Operational
range 500 – 8000 m Guidance
system Imaging Infrared Seeker Launch
platform Rotary wing platforms
Unmanned combat air vehicles
المواصفات العامه للمروحيه T-129
Line drawing for original A129 MangustaGeneral characteristics
The contract, which includes spare parts, calls for assembly of the helicopters by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and delivery in basic configuration by mid-2012, the company said.
Turkey previously ordered 51 T129s for the Turkish Land Forces Command, which will be delivered beginning in 2013. The new order is to fill an urgent operational requirement.
AgustaWestland, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica group, said the critical design review for the overall T129 program would be completed shortly, following the conclusion of the system requirements review and preliminary design review in 2009.
The batch of 51 helicopters will be armed with the Turkish-designed UMTAS missile. Prototypes of the missile are being assembled in Italy and Turkey, and they will start their flight test program in January.
تركيا ستشترى 9 مروحيات هجوميهT129 من أوجوستا الإيطاليه بتكلفة 150 مليون يورو
المروحيه تخدم فى الجيش التركى
وسيتم تسليحها بنظام صواريخ من تصميم تركيا
وستعمل المروحيه مع القوات البريه التركيه
وإجمالى ما طلبته تركيا من هذه المروحيه 51
نظام الصواريخ التركى المضاد للدبابات UMTAS Long Range Antitank Missile System
Weight 37.5 kg Length 175 cm Diameter 16 cm Warhead Insensitive Anti-armor Tandem Warhead Engine Solid-fuel rocket
Operational
range 500 – 8000 m Guidance
system Imaging Infrared Seeker Launch
platform Rotary wing platforms
Unmanned combat air vehicles
المواصفات العامه للمروحيه T-129
Specifications (T-129)
- Crew: 2 pilots
- Length: 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in)
- Rotor diameter: 11.90 m (39 ft 0 in)
- Height: 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)
- Disc area: 111.22 m² (1,197.25 ft²)
- Max takeoff weight: 5,000 kg (11,023 lb)
- Powerplant: 2× LHTEC CTS800-4A turboshaft, 1,014 kW (1,361 shp) each
- Rotor systems: 5 blades on main rotor
- Cruise speed: 269 km/h (145 knots, 167 mph)
- Range: 561 km (303 nmi, 341 mi)
- Ferry range: 1,000 km (540 nmi, 620 mi)
- Service ceiling: 6,096 m (20,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 14.0 m/s (2,750 ft/min)
- Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) three-barrel gatling-type cannon (500 rounds)
- Rockets: 4 pods with
- 38× 81 mm (3.19 in) unguided rockets or
- 76× 70 mm (2.75 in) unguided rockets or
- 12.7 mm machine gun-pod
- Missiles:
- 8× AGM-114 Hellfire, BGM-71 TOW, Hydra 70, Spike-ER, UMTAS, Roketsan Cirit anti-tank and anti-armor missiles and Sura D/Snora.
- 4-8× AIM-92 Stinger or Mistral or AIM-9 Sidewinder anti-aircraft missiles
