TR HÜRJET-Advanced Jet Trainer/ Light attack aircraft

[Fuzuli NL]

HÜRJET simulator is heading to Spain.​

TUSAŞ's success in exporting its new generation jet training aircraft, HÜRJET, to Spain will be further enhanced by the addition of a simulator.​

- Mildefin Center
26.02.2026 / 12:22




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Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) is continuing serial production of the HÜRJET, which it developed and is currently testing, for delivery to the Turkish Air Force. While these developments continue, HÜRJET has achieved its first export success with a contract signed with Spain. HÜRJET is planned to begin service in Türkiye in 2027 and in Spain in 2028.

HAVELSAN, Türkiye's leading and one of the world's leading simulator manufacturers, is working intensively to finalize the deliveries of the full mission and flight training simulator it developed for HÜRJET.

The simulator, which will be ready for the Turkish Air Force this year, will be exported to Spain along with the HÜRJET aircraft.

Nacar explained that they started working on the HÜRJET simulator 3 years ago, saying, “Previously, we were making training simulators for completed platforms, both domestic and foreign, especially foreign ones, to train pilots. But there is a difference here: In HÜRJET, we contributed to the engineering tests and verifications of an unfinished aircraft, a number of cockpit scenarios, and a number of maneuverability tests, and we also created an engineering simulator where trials were conducted on models.”

Nacar stated that they contributed to the development process of HÜRJET, and similarly, they are carrying out studies for the National Combat Aircraft KAAN.

"We will undertake even bigger projects," he added.

Nacar also made assessments regarding the export potential of HÜRJET and its simulator, noting the following:

“We will have the opportunity to provide simulators to every country that TUSAŞ sells HÜRJET to. The first example of this will hopefully be completed with the contract signed with Spain. There, we have reached the capacity to provide the simulator software and all data packages to the company responsible for simulator production in Spain. This is a turning point for us. In the past, we used to buy simulators from foreigners and build them here, but today the opposite is happening.”

Another important feature is that it is a new generation simulator. Thanks to the embedded simulator mounted on the aircraft, without the need for the screen and visual systems you see, pilots can use their time outside of their duties to train in different scenarios in a real flight environment. This is truly valuable, a new development in this field that is newly used in the world. Therefore, with the HÜRJET project, we will take stronger steps and undertake bigger projects with our national companies, our holistic defense industry approach, our own business ecosystem, and the larger defense industry business ecosystem of which we are a part.

National platforms will also increase the share of national solutions in the simulator field.

Mehmet Akif Nacar announced that they will have the HÜRJET simulator ready for use by the Turkish Air Force in the last quarter of this year and will deliver it. Nacar stated that export revenues in the simulator field will also increase with the foreign sales of national platforms such as HÜRJET, GÖKBEY, HÜRKUŞ, and ATAK, and the solutions developed for them.

Nacar said, "Because when we created simulators for previous non-national systems, the opportunities to mass produce and sell them in large numbers were more limited, but today, as this market grows together with TUSAŞ, our share of the business and our export share will increase accordingly."

HÜRJET simülatörü İspanya yolcusu - MilDefIn

TUSAŞ'ın yeni nesil jet eğitim uçağı HÜRJET'in İspanya'ya ihracatıyla yakaladığı başarıya, simülatörüyle yeni bir halka eklenecek.

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[Fuzuli NL]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2027365975163650496

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2027375356949270788

A TUSAŞ souvenir for the neighborhood

A photograph taken while the HÜRJET jet was flying over the rural Dümrek neighborhood in Mihalıççık district of Eskişehir was presented to the neighborhood as a gift.

 

[Ripley]

So, after Trump declared casually in front of the German Chancellor at the Oval Office trade sanctions and God knows what else on Spain, what do you think will be the future of Hürjet deal with Spain. How we will get permission for F404 engines?

 

[TR_123456]

So, after Trump declared casually in front of the German Chancellor at the Oval Office trade sanctions and God knows what else on Spain, what do you think will be the future of Hürjet deal with Spain. How we will get permission for F404 engines?

The BFF's will find a way.

 

[Pokemonte13]

Did he do it or did he just say it? Because i don't think he can just sanction spain without legislative body.

 

[Ripley]

Did he do it or did he just say it? Because i don't think he can just sanction spain without legislative body.

Actually he can. It’s probably where US presidents have a free reign, in practice.
technically a reversal possible with a certain percentage of both houses of the congress but even if so, the president can veto that reversal. So, in practice, he can.

 

[Yasar_TR]

So, after Trump declared casually in front of the German Chancellor at the Oval Office trade sanctions and God knows what else on Spain, what do you think will be the future of Hürjet deal with Spain. How we will get permission for F404 engines?

Turkiye has got the green light to licence produce f404 engines.
However I think TEI are dragging their feet here. Because to set up an assembly line just to produce 100 engines may not be cost effective according to Mahmut Aksit. They want the top brass to give them the go ahead.

US may stop us supplying Spain, the f404 fitted Hurjets.
A good option could be EJ200 fitted Hurjets. Spain’s ITP Aero already produced a prototype EJ200 with 10-15% more thrust and TVC to fit Hal Tejas. That plane can take off from a carrier.

 

[Merzifonlu]

The EJ-200/230, customized for single-use applications, solves many problems at once. It would be a non-US option for the Gripen. The same goes for the Hürjet. It could even be the ultimate engine solution for the Kızılelma.

 

[Ripley]

Turkiye has got the green light to licence produce f404 engines.
However I think TEI are dragging their feet here. Because to set up an assembly line just to produce 100 engines may not be cost effective according to Mahmut Aksit. They want the top brass to give them the go ahead.

US may stop us supplying Spain, the f404 fitted Hurjets.
A good option could be EJ200 fitted Hurjets. Spain’s ITP Aero already produced a prototype EJ200 with 10-15% more thrust and TVC to fit Hal Tejas. That plane can take off from a carrier.

The EJ-200/230, customized for single-use applications, solves many problems at once. It would be a non-US option for the Gripen. The same goes for the Hürjet. It could even be the ultimate engine solution for the Kızılelma.

But those 100 units OKed for our inventory needs, right?
This EJ200 gets me wondering though. How will EJ200 line work? wont we have to work on structural arrangements? wont it delay the production? somehow it sounds costly and time consuming.

 

[Merzifonlu]

There's something else that worries me. Even if those sluggish Europeans develop a single-use version of the EJ-200, what will the production speed be? If production is left to the Europeans, it will progress at a snail's pace.

By the way, I'm seriously wondering why they didn't do this modification until now and left the market to the GE F-404/414.

 

[Spitfire9]

The EJ-200/230, customized for single-use applications, solves many problems at once. It would be a non-US option for the Gripen. The same goes for the Hürjet. It could even be the ultimate engine solution for the Kızılelma.

I think that SAAB recently put paid to speculation that an EJ200 version of Gripen would be offered.

In retrospect it might have been a good idea for India to have chosen EJ200 for its Tejas Mk2 proposal around 2010 and Turkiye similarly for Hurjet. However, having 4 countries able to block supply for political reasons is more complex than having just 1.

 

[Yasar_TR]

But those 100 units OKed for our inventory needs, right?
This EJ200 gets me wondering though. How will EJ200 line work? wont we have to work on structural arrangements? wont it delay the production? somehow it sounds costly and time consuming.

The 100 units and more probably are OK. As we have the green light, a licenced production agreement needs to be signed for a given timescale, like we did with t700 and the Honeywell cts800 engines. Then we start manufacturing the engines within that time scale.

Of course the two engines‘ connections to the plane will not be the same. Nuts and bolts positions of the engine to plane’s superstructure will not match. Also air in let ducts to engine will have to be made to fit the new engine). These will have to be sorted out. But if you check the size and weight of the two engines; they are not very different. So it shouldn’t be too difficult to adjust an EJ200 in to the engine compartment of Hurjet. (It has to be remembered that KAI was offering their FA50 trainer with 3 different engines; f404, f414 and EJ200)

F404
weight : 1035 kg
length : 391 cm
diameter : 89 cm
dry thrust : 11000lbf
wet thrust : 17700lbf

EJ200
weight : 1000kg
length : 400cm
diameter : 74cm
dry thrust : 13500lbf (~15000lbf with TVC version)
wet thrust : 20200lbf (~23000lbf with TVC version)


NB

fitted with a TVC version engine, Hurjets can take off from TCG Anadolu too.
But it needs to have arresting wires to stop it. (Same is valid for Kizilelma)