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Agreed. As a sidenote... Those composite pieces are looking so nice.

So the nose is nearly done. But I can't help but wonder if this is a newer prototype.

Wasn't it 1.4 mach before? Damn this airplane keeps getting slower after each update lol. Excited about it regardless. Happy to see the overall performance gains.

The design of the MMU is slowly maturing. Everything is coming together.

True unfortunately. But hey It would be awesome if we could see some pics of Hurjet. I'd love to know more about the TISU/MIUS drone as well.

The newly opened TAI National Combat Aircraft Engineering Facility. Here we can see the assembly facility in the background as well. I don't know why they would re-open this building again. Visited that place last year, seemed pretty operational to me. Came across both Turkish and foreign...

They've enlarged the canards?

Hold up... The wing area on Hurjet is absolutely insane. I wonder if TAI is going for a configuration change on the wing. I highly doubt that to be the case but mannn I don't even know at this point :D

Anything new? :/

Yes, pretty much. Having a conversation with a pilot at TEKNOFEST isn't that difficult. It's perfectly allowed and I see no reason why you would not trust me on this.

That's what I find interesting. I spoke to an F-16 pilot the other day. Said the production variants of the F-16 Özgür would retain the digital camouflage. So as far as I can understand... Structurally modernized Block 30's will start operating. When the AESA arrives the Özgür upgrade will also...

Yea they're quite secretive about it. I don't think the program is 100% complete at the moment but it has been a success. They're waiting for ASELSAN's AESA radar and perhaps some other things.

F-16 Özgür coated with a sexy digital camo. From 2019. I wanna see more of this bird!

Oh yeah no doubt. Much appreciated. Did Mr. Demir say anything else regarding Hurjet?

This news isn't new. We already knew TAI would modify the design. I do wonder what he means by "certain combat capabilities" though.

That's actually not that bad of an idea :p

Oh I'm glad it's a Brazilian company actually. I was just surprised by the amount of involvement. Especially considering it's a single company providing all this support.

Hmm I've heard that it crashed during takeoff. Is HAF planning on giving further info?

It seems we have chosen Akaer Group as a partner on the Hurjet program. Didn't know that was the case... They're responsible for developing and detailing structural design, performing structural calculations, installing the rear fuselage, installing the empennages and producing parts of the...

The 1:1 part is probably a mock-up, while the smaller almost metallic looking piece seems to be produced for tests. Either way... I'm glad it exists.