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Hava soj will not be effective against adaptive radars.Adaptive radar can change electromagnetic spectrum if it is jammed,you should analyse new signals during flight and make it jamming accordingly,BAE is working on this.We are too late on production of hava soj but industry does not wait for you.We choose the right firm for new F16 vipers ew suit which has cognitive EW countermeasures.It will increase the survival rate of the fighters,but its not enough due to low power of system,can not replace hava soj duty,also new generation of AA missiles including our göktuğ missies can lock on jammer source,so we have to get disposible ew jammers and/or towed ones.I do not think our vipers will have it may be Kaan got it I hope.
 
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Air Pilot Colonel Ugur YILDIZ and Air Pilot Colonel Gokhan OZEN fell martyr in result of the recent SF-260D crash in Kayseri. May Allah accept their martyrdom!

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Saw the news I always hoped for a miracle that they werent harmed.
 

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Rest in Peace :(
To me it's strange that there are two Colonel in that type of aircraft. Or is it normal?
more than likely a shakedown flight after depot level maintenance on the airframe.
 

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Are these planes equivalent to the Hurkus?
I believe that the plan was to replace them with the Hürkus, however, the initial Hürkus hadn't met the standards of the TSK, hence the decision to commence with the Hürkus II project. The latter is supposed to get the expected orders to be placed.
In fact, I believe orders were already placed iirc.
 

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I believe that the plan was to replace them with the Hürkus, however, the initial Hürkus hadn't met the standards of the TSK, hence the decision to commence with the Hürkus II project. The latter is supposed to get the expected orders to be placed.
In fact, I believe orders were already placed iirc.
Do you know why it didn't meet their standards?

The plane is doing well in serving foreign air forces, so it is strange that the Turkish Air Force didn't go for it.
 

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Do you know why it didn't meet their standards?

The plane is doing well in serving foreign air forces, so it is strange that the Turkish Air Force didn't go for it.
I don't know the specifics and these usually won't be published unless way later, but everything indicates that.
That doesn't mean that it was a bad aircraft but TSK is one of the most demanding customers in the words of the former SSM (now SSB) secretary Murat Bayar.
The original Hürkus was sold to a couple of African countries with limited defence budgets in very small quantities. They must have been a good match to both requirements and budgets of said customers.
 

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I don't know the specifics and these usually won't be published unless way later, but everything indicates that.
That doesn't mean that it was a bad aircraft but TSK is one of the most demanding customers in the words of the former SSM (now SSB) secretary Murat Bayar.
The original Hürkus was sold to a couple of African countries with limited defence budgets in very small quantities. They must have been a good match to both requirements and budgets of said customers.
The overall sentiment I see around is that it's a good, high performance plane but not best at being a trainer, maybe a bit difficult to operate for a beginner.
 

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Are these planes equivalent to the Hurkus?
SF-260 is a basic trainer, while Hürkuş can be considered an advanced trainer and can also be employed on Lead in Fighter Training(LIFT). Hürkuş is closer to an F-16 than SF-260.
 

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