TR HÜRJET-Advanced Jet Trainer/ Light attack aircraft

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Wave like the dawns, oh glorious crescent! 🇹🇷

HÜRJET's second prototype took to the skies with its new paint! ✈️


Looks like inspired by WW2 camo patterns

1) dazzle patterns of Allied naval vessels
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2) and Luftwaffe early war two tone pattern

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I love this new Hurjet Camo. Looking great 🔥
 

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Juanjo Fernández(Writer and defense analyst. Graduate in National Defense):

"The second prototype of the Hurjet with a nice paint scheme.
Get used to this plane. I won't say more."


Could it be..?
We have to take a step back and think about the incredible achievement Türkiye has made regarding its defence industry and in particular the aviation sector thanks to TAI, Baykar, Aselsan, Rocketsan, Havelsan, KaleAero, and many more.
The fact that we're exporting to NATO countries or even being considered from Spain, a country with decades more experience and success in manufacturing Aircraft from trainers, fighters to transport and utility, is mind boggling. Quality is key!
 

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We have to take a step back and think about the incredible achievement Türkiye has made regarding its defence industry and in particular the aviation sector thanks to TAI, Baykar, Aselsan, Rocketsan, Havelsan, KaleAero, and many more.
The fact that we're exporting to NATO countries or even being considered from Spain, a country with decades more experience and success in manufacturing Aircraft from trainers, fighters to transport and utility, is mind boggling. Quality is key!
it's a good omen for sure but we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. we need to see some concrete news before putting up the lights
 

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News from Spain:

"Air Force prioritizes industrial returns in F-5 replacement: "The Hürjet is well positioned".

"The major objective is to buy an advanced trainer with a significant participation in the Spanish defense industry program, in line with the Defense Ministry's procurement policy. At this point, talks are currently underway with different candidates, among which the Hürjet of the Turkish firm TAI stands out. "We are going to acquire a trainer, but what returns do we have, at that point is the negotiation", explained the Chief of the Air Staff (JEMA), Air General Francisco Braco, in a meeting with journalists in Madrid.

The Ministry of Defense and the Air and Space Army, explained JEMA, do not want to acquire an aircraft through a "leasing" where there is a high dependence on the manufacturer for the maintenance or updating of components. "The goal is to have our own aircraft that we can touch," he stressed. The air general also reviewed some of the candidates including TAI's Hürjet, Korean KAI's T-50 and also Leonardo's M-346, but insisted that much of the discussion revolves around the aforementioned returns.

Regarding the Hürjet, the JEMA confirmed that the TAI company presented the aircraft to the Air and Space Army in Spain and that the possible purchase was also discussed in the margins of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Madrid in June this year."The Hürjet is well positioned, I don't deny it, but with conditions, and we are in those conditions right now," Braco concluded."


Spain is interested in up to 55 aircraft to replace their old F-5 trainers, aggressor aircraft and those of their Acroteam Patrulla Aguilla, which operate 12 C-101s.
 

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For the umptheenth time we'll see when we get there. Meanwhile since hürjet is flying and doing acrobatics etc. We should focus on semi-mass production of Hürjet and have a dedicated team for it. Better safe than sorry.
 

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For the umptheenth time we'll see when we get there. Meanwhile since hürjet is flying and doing acrobatics etc. We should focus on semi-mass production of Hürjet and have a dedicated team for it. Better safe than sorry.
That makes absolutely zero sense. Mainly because we don't have an engine for it either, and we have no idea if we could get an agreement for engine to be used on a light attack variant. How on earth are you expecting it to enter "mass" production without engines? We don't even have an engine program for it right now mate.

Not to mention, it is far less capable than even the worst version of Kaan would be. It is doubtful it can even carry our heaviest munitions. Why push for it and split your workforce and budget?? People are really overestimating Hürjet.
 

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That makes absolutely zero sense. Mainly because we don't have an engine for it either, and we have no idea if we could get an agreement for engine to be used on a light attack variant. How on earth are you expecting it to enter "mass" production without engines? We don't even have an engine program for it right now mate.

Not to mention, it is far less capable than even the worst version of Kaan would be. It is doubtful it can even carry our heaviest munitions. Why push for it and split your workforce and budget?? People are really overestimating Hürjet.
It makes sense of you use engine from GE. At least there is no hyper over domestic engine for Hürjet, so it'd be perfect to continue with the trainer version and on the side develop it as LCA.

So what's delaying or who is delaying semi-mass production of Hürjet ? I'd say politics. I can't remember if the sale of engine fo Hürjet got through US senate. But we should have had that deal in place long ago.
 

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It makes sense of you use engine from GE. At least there is no hyper over domestic engine for Hürjet, so it'd be perfect to continue with the trainer version and on the side develop it as LCA.

So what's delaying or who is delaying semi-mass production of Hürjet ? I'd say politics. I can't remember if the sale of engine fo Hürjet got through US senate. But we should have had that deal in place long ago.
Okay, you use the engine for the trainer, sure. But you wouldn't be able to use it for the light attack version. So, what did you gain by putting more resources into it? Nothing.
 

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Okay, you use the engine for the trainer, sure. But you wouldn't be able to use it for the light attack version. So, what did you gain by putting more resources into it? Nothing.
Why would we not be able to use on LCA version of Hürjet ? I've said it before, if we can transform Hürjet to LCA without changing it's structure then it's best to build as many Hürjet as possible
 

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Why would we not be able to use on LCA version of Hürjet ? I've said it before, if we can transform Hürjet to LCA without changing it's structure then it's best to build as many Hürjet as possible
Mate, you buy those engines to use them on a trainer, you can only use them on a trainer without their explicit say so. You think they are just going to give them to us to do whatever we want? And a trainer plane that cannot even carry 3 tons is not going to help that much to us, it certainly won't be able to go against any 5th gen plane.
 

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Mate, you buy those engines to use them on a trainer, you can only use them on a trainer without their explicit say so. You think they are just going to give them to us to do whatever we want? And a trainer plane that cannot even carry 3 tons is not going to help that much to us, it certainly won't be able to go against any 5th gen plane.
I disagree with you on that. I know that if we acquire them for trainer then that's what we should do, but in an all out war or such, being able to turn those jets into LCA and more modern one is an asset that should not be under estimated. As it is our fighterjets are getting older and older.
 

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