Best answer to this question is to look at the Tusas’s timeline for MMU. After March 2023 when the plane comes out of hangar under it’s own power, it will have to wait till 2025, may be even until 2026 before it’s first flight. OK, MMU is a stealthy top end twin engined large fighter jet with a lot of stuff to have before it will fly. But still, Hurjet too, is a plane that will have a lot of avionics and electronics that MMU pilot candidates will train on. So it is not a simple plane either.
Besides when prototype planes fly for the first time, they are furnished fairly basic.
Also I can’t imagine Tusas will allow cameras to film a crash at first flight if something unforeseen happens - god forbid! They will probably fly that plane few times before we see it flying.
The timeline is too tight for comfort when logic dictates, to be honest.
But on the plus side, there is the promise that Mr Kotil and Mr Demir made to everyone that this plane will fly in March 2023. Their word and reputation is on the line. So we will see.
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