I'm guessing LRIP will still happen in 2025. Mass production will start in 2028.Is there a reason for the delay ? It seems that the program was proceeding on schedule with no abnormal issues being encountered.
I'm guessing LRIP will still happen in 2025. Mass production will start in 2028.Is there a reason for the delay ? It seems that the program was proceeding on schedule with no abnormal issues being encountered.
View: https://twitter.com/KeremHok/status/1721398458924273666?t=wsb5kdllsk6MOs-9qzmWLg&s=19#TAI General Manager Temel Kotil:
#HÜRJET
We will deliver 1 to the Air Force at the end of next year. We will deliver another 1 later. After that, we will deliver 2 units every month. (Google Translate)
This is P0, the static prototype. FAL of Hürjet is located at a converted mod hangar. This bench is located perpendicular to TF-X's assembly facility, they're both under the same roof.The 2nd Hürjet under construction
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via: View: https://twitter.com/turkishcentury/status/1757034302208979263
Well the Kaan project team is regularly fed trays of Baklava by the top brass so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the folks in Hurjet team are similarly in a sugar induced coma.Damn guys slow it down. Making our MIC look like slugs.
View: https://x.com/TUSAS_TR/status/1763914185832862072?s=20
-43 test flights.
-Total flight time 34 hours.
Baklava, better than Red-BullWell the Kaan project team is regularly fed trays of Baklava by the top brass so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the folks in Hurjet team are similarly in a sugar induced coma.
You got used to the incredible speed of development from Boramae, haven't you? Well you're right, but remember that this is the only flying prototype, and it is their first supersonic aircraft. From this POV it is entirely sensible to go slower than anticipated. But I wouldn't call the speed of development slow either, it is going on its own pace but I reckon this is going to change since LRIP is supposed to begin in 2025.Don't want again to ruin the party, but 43 flights & 34 hours total flight time sounds not that much within lets say about 10 months!
Does anyone know what's the total amount of flight hours planned before certification and what for example the T-7 had so accomplish for certification?
@TUSAS_TR General Manager @Temel_Kotil made important statements in the Perspective program he attended on Çay TV News on March 16, 2024.
- "After Hürkuş was completed, we discussed building a 19-seater passenger plane. At that time, (SSB President) İsmail Demir wanted a jet training plane (Hürjet). The state said, let's build the jet training plane first, then let's build KAAN.
- Hürjet is doing very well. We will give it to the Air Force as of the beginning of next year (2025). The Air Force ordered 14.
- We produced 15 Hürkuş, now we are producing 60 more. We are manufacturing it for our Air Force. (the first) 15 (are) finished, the other 60 started. We produce 2-3 per month. (Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yUp0ircWldk… )
(mashine translation from indoneasian):
1/ Finally answered, TUSAS Malaysia makes embedded training computers, part of the embedded training system. Electronics are for simulators, not avionics for airplanes. This possibility is part of the Hurjet aircraft simulator called Hurjet 270.
2/ As far as I know, TUSAS has established a branch office in Malaysia, but this is a design office and not a production facility or factory for making avionics. TUSAS established a branch in Malaysia for avionics and a branch office in Indonesia for structures.
3/ Because it does not have production facilities, this branch office utilizes a collaborative partnership model with vendors and suppliers, both at home and abroad.Even so, what Malaysia has achieved is a good thing for countries in the Southeast Asia region. Good Job.
View: https://x.com/yudisupri_454/status/1778799163653935457
TUSAS Malaysia showcased 1st Made in Malysia avionics built for Hurjet trainer
View: https://x.com/GardaAramis/status/1746884584451813643
View: https://x.com/SavunmaSanayiST/status/1780974190096511414Additional order for HÜRJET: Delivery is brought forward by 1 year!
Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün:"In addition to the 4 Block-0 aircraft signed between our Presidency and TAI, we are including 12 Block-1 aircraft in the scope.With this contract change, the delivery of 12 serial aircraft within the scope of Block-1 will be converted into a firm order. Aircraft delivery dates will be improved and brought forward by 1 year."
To be precise, the ¨ used in <ü> and <ö> in the modern Turkish alphabet and <ä>, <ï> and <ë> in Turkological notation should not be called umlaut but diæresis instead, as the vowels notated them are not the result of an umlauting (A change of quality of a vowel in a syllable caused by a different vowel or semivowel in a following vowel or semivowel which, in the case of modern Germanic languages has usually been lost. An example of (i-)umlaut in modern English, German and Swedish would be foot - feet, Fuß - Füße, fot - fötter, stemming from Proto-Germanic *fōts - fōtiz, the *-i- in the nominative plural causing a fronting of the *ō in the main syllable in the daughter languaes). In Turkic languages (just like in my native Finnish and many of its relatives like Hungarian which are Uralic languages) the diæresis is used to different front and back vocalic pairs of vowel phonemes like /a/ - /ä/, /o/ - /ö/, /ë/ - /e/, /u/ - /ü/ and /ï/ - /i/ as these languages have palatal vowel harmony where front and back vowels cannot exist in the same word.All hail Turkey as the umlaut king of the world! And coming from a native German, that is no faint praise indeed...
it's been a year already...
We will continue to break new ground in the skies! Happy birthday #HÜRJET ! 50 sorties, 39 hours 44 minutes flight time,15 thousand ft altitude
that link is dead
View: https://twitter.com/TUSAS_TR/status/1791025356859650445?t=paqzLFpjdWzFGRSXKMfkhw&s=19There is ️ on stage!
Moreover, it will be in Samsun on May 19th.
#HÜRJET
Hürjet rehearsing for the airshow tomorrow:
View: https://x.com/SavunmaSanayiST/status/1791864711136350495
I suspect not. On a supersonic capable plane I cannot see such a large gaping hole as a good idea aerodynamically... Not to mention the possible damage that can be caused. It is very different to say Typhoon's pressure relief cut for the nose gear.Partial landing gear covers may be by design. We can be sure when the 2nd prototype is revealed.
View: https://x.com/dolunayadam/status/1792260132950147311Partial landing gear covers may be by design. We can be sure when the 2nd prototype is revealed.
Video from today's airshow:
View: https://x.com/i/web/status/1792242289013662135
They probably removed it for easier access, there's no part that is inherently missing on the first prototype.It seems the design indeed includes the secondary cover. Probably it will be present in the 2nd prototype. Please see the design here:
View: https://youtu.be/q5T5MC7C79k?t=91
Spain Revives F-5 Trainer Replacement
https://aviationweek.com/defense-sp...raining/spain-revives-f-5-trainer-replacementLONDON—Spain’s on-again, off-again efforts to pick a replacement platform for the F-5 lead-in trainer aircraft are again underway, with options including development of a new system to support the air force’s future fighter ambition.
Spain is looking at four systems already on the market for the F-5 replacement, while also studying the possibility of pursuing a brand new design, Lt. Col. Hugo Garcia Galán, deputy operational chairman for the Next Generation Weapon System effort at the Spanish Air and Space Force, told a Royal Aeronautical Society event here May 21.
The contenders are the Boeing T-7, Korea Aerospace Industries T-50, Leonardo M-346 and Turkish Aerospace (TAI) Hurjet, though other contenders also could come into the running, Garcia said. Even if Spain goes ahead with backing development of a trainer optimized to support pilot education for sixth-generation combat aircraft, the government could proceed with an interim purchase of an existing system to bridge any gap, he added.
Spain has delayed the retirement of the F-5 from around 2028 to 2030 or later, he said, and there is no firm timeline when a decision on the way forward will be made.
Development of a new fighter would involve partnering with at least one other European country. Garcia said France, Italy or the UK would be among potential candidates.
The future fighter that Spain is working to develop with France and Germany (Belgium is an observer on the project) is scheduled to enter service sometime after 2040. France and Germany in particular have been haggling over the structure of the program and way forward. Garcia acknowledged the schedule has slipped during the opening phases, but added it is currently running to plan.
There has indeed been strong talk of Airbus developing a brand new trainer in Spain to complement the FCAS.