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I am still not convinced of the mission profile as Hürküs C Fighter Aircraft.
As a Trainer this Aircraft makes perfect sense together with Hürjet.
But in contrast to the armed Hürkus, Hürjet in combination with drones can give a real impact against counter-terrorism, Pirates and Drug Cartels and Patrol flights in own Airspace.
These groups rarely have very sophisticated Air Defense Systems.
What they do have are very modern SHORAD manpads.
Hürküs C as a Combat Aircraft can only fly at medium/low altitudes at best and manpads can take the Aircraft apart precisely in this range.
Even as a third world Country Fighter it is no good as an armed Version.
I don't know what they were thinking developing something like this as manned armed fighter....
We should sell Hürkuş to the poor countries where they can use these platforms for Air to ground, hürkuş has some pristine AG capabilities, It can use lots of smart munitions like güdüm kitli MK84 etc.

Tucanos were used just like this in great effect. Sometimes drones can't carry the heavier loads Hurkuş-C doesn't have that problem.
 

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I'm sure MITL munitions would work better with HÜRKUŞ, simply because your control is done directly from the launch platform.

Many of our competitors can drop laser and GPS guided bombs but I haven't seen one that can use IIR or TV guided munitions.
 

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They could be buying them for an African country.
And the likelihood of that being someone we don't like is very high. As someone pointed out the UAE will wait with the whole delivery before giving it to those
 
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And the likelihood of that being someone we don't like is very high. As someone pointed out the UAE will wait with the whole delivery before giving it to those
Of course but it doesnt matter,we will probably provide the other side with Airdefence or something.
I guess its calculated beforehand.
 

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Hürkuş is in serial production with 10 planes targeted to be delivered to air force this year

 

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