If it happens, it would be very good for us. We can both eliminate the shortage of heavy airlifter and provide great advertising for the Hürjet. Just as the Ukraine War served as "a billboard" for the TB-2s.Any thoughts??
Confirmation of a possible deal being in the works:There are unverified rumours about I Sunnetci’s statement regarding Turkey buying some of the unwanted A400M transport planes. (6 out of 7 with Germany getting the other)
There were news that S Korea was offering Spain their trainer aircraft. Spain came back with a counter offer to give them A400Ms at the 15% price of 27million dollars a piece as a swap deal.
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South Korea and Spain seek deal to swap trainer jets for airlifters
The deal may involve about 50 basic and advanced trainer jets built by Korea Aerospace Industries, and four to six Airbus A400M airlifters.www.defensenews.com
Hurjet was offered to the Spanish.
Hurjet was not brought to Farnborough, because it had to go through urgent upgrades.
Now we are hearing that Hurjet is to go to Spain.
2 x 2 = ???
Any thoughts??
It would be great for us to sell Hurjet to a NATO country. I hope the deal goes smoothly.
And I doubt US would deny export license of F404 to spain. Heck, if we established a production centre there and spain imported engines as an intermediary in the worst case scenario, that would work tooYes, even if a barter trade it will open doors in many other countries.
“Urgent upgrades “…for the requirements of the new customer?urgent upgrades
If Hurjet lives up to the expectations and good enough to be bought and use by Spain… then I don’t understand why TAF did’t procure some already…
4 plus 12 total 16 order from TurAFThere is an order in place for the first batch of 12 Hurjets.
we had once 88 T-38 TALON, 55 of them went through ARI modernization by TUSAŞ starting from april 2012 so yes even for the coming advance trainer variant we may need 50-55 HÜRJET just to replace current T38Ms in 121st ARI Squadron at Çiğli İzmirDid the new TAI CEO not say that talks are ongoing for a larger batch in his last interview?
I think he said 50.
24 Hurjets for 6 A400M
1 A400M costs roughly 160 million euros, so we are selling a single Hurjet for 40 million euros(43.5 million $). IMHO this is a good trade for us.
They are the ones Spain ordered about 10 years ago but didn't take delivery of. They are also delayed in production due to late orders and I don't think there are unused A400Ms lying around somewhere. They will be built.Are these A400M's new ones or used ones?