Just to add to this:Availability. But ASELSAN could theoretically develop a smaller variant of the MURAD AESA and then fit it on the aircraft at a later date. Hürjet is also different in the sense that it isn't an outright combat platform, although it is configurable to be one. So it is normal in my view, that ASELSAN prioritized BÜRFİS & MURAD and their integrations to platforms such as Akıncı, Kızılelma, F-16 and the MMU.
The Italian Aesa Radar Hurjet will have will be the first air platform that TuAF will have with an Aesa radar. It will be good and informative to use it on a plane. Also it has to be remembered that since Hurjet is predominantly a trainer aircraft, the electronic systems on it will have to approximate the equipments on Ozgur and MMU to train the pilot candidates properly, it doesn’t really need a locally produced super-duper radar.
While Aselsan is working hard to perfect the Murad and the Burfis, it would have meant to be distracting and pulling resources from these two very important projects, had Aselsan designed an Aesa radar for Hurjet too.
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