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Why Turkeye should have at least 200+ Hurkus woth dual use?
1. As Hurkus 2 had reached maturity level and is among the best its class, the production line should continue for a decade or two for maximum benefit and to replace many older aircraft in the cheap training, cheap light attack category world wide.
2. This category had hike in demand as most countries don't want to send expensive fighters to fight insurgents with no real Air defence capabilities.
3. Its among the few Turkish weapons in the air force that can be developed to provide close air support similar to the A 10.
4. It is good for teaching Syrian, and Libyan allies pilots.
5. It can do very low flights between the mountains and attack in Sea and land surprising enemy forces and causing real damage using weapons already available. A task that is very hard for drones to do.
6. It can be developed to manage drones and extend their range without the need of Satellite capabilities on the drones like TB2 Simsek ...
7. The development of new concepts using the Hurkus will bring big demand on it especially for countries who bought TB2.
1. As Hurkus 2 had reached maturity level and is among the best its class, the production line should continue for a decade or two for maximum benefit and to replace many older aircraft in the cheap training, cheap light attack category world wide.
2. This category had hike in demand as most countries don't want to send expensive fighters to fight insurgents with no real Air defence capabilities.
3. Its among the few Turkish weapons in the air force that can be developed to provide close air support similar to the A 10.
4. It is good for teaching Syrian, and Libyan allies pilots.
5. It can do very low flights between the mountains and attack in Sea and land surprising enemy forces and causing real damage using weapons already available. A task that is very hard for drones to do.
6. It can be developed to manage drones and extend their range without the need of Satellite capabilities on the drones like TB2 Simsek ...
7. The development of new concepts using the Hurkus will bring big demand on it especially for countries who bought TB2.
Thank you I found that the Özgür 2 program will be finalized in 2027. But does that mean theydone or agreed on? And the number of aircrafts to be developed under the program is not mentioned.
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Afaik they are waiting for the Murad AESA Radar to go in serial production. Currently they are testing the Radar with different platforms.
Since Türkiye put the purchase of Viper and Viper modernization kits on ice, they plan to apply Özgür project to almost all F-16s in TurAF's inventory.
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im guessing it will start then because Murad is supposed to go in to production in 2026. Probably the aircraft that went to özgür 1 will also go through özgür 2 but this time it will be faster as the main difference will be the new radar.
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I swear, a lot of you have no concept of resources or manpower in real life and talk about all these acquisitions as if they are video games. Yes, let's get 200 Hürkuş, 500 Kaan, 100 Siper, 1000 Altay, just put them in the build queue.
Where are the pilots are going to come from for all those planes? Where are we going to keep them? How are we going to build and arm them? Fuel them? Find and train and equip all the ground crew they need?
Trainers for air force and 1 or 2 squadron for JÖH to use as Recon/CAS (if they want it, though they have bought trainers so, I think they might) is more than enough for us, any other country can buy them to their hearts content.
Also, your rest of your comment smells like ChatGpt, I hope its not.
