Range and survivability could be advantages for an heavier attack helicopter.
Maybe a bigger gun and more ammo for better close-air support ? 8 antitank missiles and 2 big rockets pods are enough for most mission anyway.
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Maybe a bigger gun and more ammo for better close-air support ? 8 antitank missiles and 2 big rockets pods are enough for most mission anyway.
Future weapon and warfare tactics may change. I recently saw a video of micro drones delivering a explosive charge to target. Using drones or being attack by drone swarm may be a thing future helo/troops operations may face. There may be roles of attack copters using ecm or some other means to knock out adversary defense systems.
The WZ-16 is the chinese name for the ardiden 3C, and it seems to me that it is just a jointly developed sino-french version of the french ardiden 3 engine. Its not really a new engine.
TBH, i have a really hard time believing that china entirely owns the IP of this engine. Otherwise, they could just produce them by themselves and cut safran itself from the market.
It is likely a licensed design. From what I understand all the parts can be produced in China. If they paid a lump sum upfront or are paying a certain amount of money per engine built I don't know. But it likely was a lump sum.
Hendrik_2000
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It is joint IP where Safran design the hot part and the chinese designed the cold part But source most of the part from China. It is just design so assuming Safran embargo it can't prevent China from manufacturing the engine
Hendrik_2000
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It is not license the cold part is designed by the Chinese the hot part is designed by Safran. Both company own the IP
Both parties have full IP to use with their respective helicopters and marketing. I am sure the Europeans are smart enough to make sure the two versions are not plug-in-compatible. I thought it was a 50-50 development deal (i.e. no payment) but this is really old news.
broadsword
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I had never come across someone suggesting China entirely owns the IP of the engine until now, but I admit I don't follow this subject very closely.
TerraN_EmpirE
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Why do Pilots wear Leather coats.
1 Part practical, 1 Part Tradition, 2 parts Tom Cruise.
1 Part practical. Aircraft operate at a verity of altitude but generally well above sea level in unpressurized cockpits that means the temperatures can drop pretty fast. Even world war 1 era biplane pilots bundled up due to the combination of wind chill and altitude.
The later brings in tradition, in WW1-2 and a little after Leather, Asbestos and wool were really the only fire resistant materials available in clothing. Once synthetic fire retardant materials became available in most applications these were out moated yet still modern Fire fighters wear leather boots with cotton thread due to comfort ruggedness and because leather can be fire resistant. Over the decades non leather flight jackets have been developed from time to time but Tom Cruise comes in here.
Tom Cruise as let’s face it A well made well aged leather jacket is snazzy, the epitome of Cool. Wether a Motorcycle jacket, Field jacket, Flight jacket, leather vest ecta. It’s a proven fact that if people like something they will use it more.
On the other side of the question is Fatigue uniforms. Until the last two decades reality is that Fire resistant clothing was really expensive and specialized to coveralls and fire fighting ensembles. Even today it’s still going to cost more than equivalent work wear and require specialized laundering so as not to reduce the effectiveness. Fatigues have been designed primarily for cheap manufacturing with some camouflage properties not as much again until the last decade for FR. Factor in the environmental aspects and it favors more specialized clothing.
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