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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
TUSAŞ and Airbus team up on jet trainer pitch for Spanish Air Force
ISTANBUL — Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus and a group of 15 Spanish companies – 'Team Spain' – to explore cooperation on Spain's future jet trainer program. The agreement, signed during the Feindef defense exhibition in Madrid, focuses on developing a new Integrated Training System (ITS-C) that will eventually replace the Spanish Air Force's 19 F-5M training aircraft which have been in service for 53 years. The partnership aims to combine Airbus's experience in aircraft design, production and training with TUSAŞ's Hürjet. The Hürjet is a twin-seat, supersonic jet trainer designed to prepare pilots for advanced fighter aircraft and could become a key element in Spain's future training system. The agreement builds on a previous pact between TUSAŞ and Airbus and now includes Spanish industrial players. It also seeks to deepen defense ties between Turkey and Spain while contributing to the modernization of Spain's military pilot training infrastructure. Hürjet, currently in development by TUSAŞ, is designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 1.4. It includes advanced onboard and ground-based training systems and is scheduled to enter service with the Turkish Air Force in 2026. Lt. Gen. Miguel Ivorra Ruiz, who oversees defense-industry planning at the Spanish Ministry of Defense, emphasized the broader significance of the agreement. He described it as 'a step towards a solid, strategic and innovative industrial cooperation,' saying it would position Spanish companies at the center of an internationally scoped initiative.
Egypt Independent
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Egypt Independent
Egypt and Turkey conduct first high-level military meeting in Ankara
The first high-level military dialogue meeting between Turkey and Egypt was held in the Turkish capital, Ankara. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement that Chief of Staff Metin Gurak received his Egyptian counterpart, Ahmed Fathi Ibrahim Khalifa, with a military ceremony on Thursday, where they then held a closed meeting. Following the closed meeting, the first high-level military dialogue meeting between Turkey and Egypt, planned to be held annually between the chiefs of staff of both countries, was held at the Turkish General Staff headquarters. According to Turkish sources, the meeting addressed military cooperation relations and cooperation between Egypt and Turkey in the fields of training and defense industries. Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler later received the Egyptian Chief of Staff and his accompanying delegation, the Pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported. The first visit by a high-ranking Egyptian military official to Turkey since 2013 was by former Egyptian Chief of Staff Osama Askar, who was later appointed advisor to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Relations between the two countries had been strained in 2013 following the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt, but both countries have fully normalized relations almost a decade after. Askar's visit to Ankara preceded Sisi's visit to Turkey on September 4, 2024, which witnessed the first meeting of the Strategic Council for Relations between the two countries. The Council was revived during Erdogan's visit to Cairo on February 14 of the same year, which was his first visit to Egypt after 12 years. During the visit, both sides affirmed their desire to increase military cooperation in many areas during the coming period, including cooperation in the defense industries and joint production. Defense Cooperation and Training Askar conducted an inspection tour of several defense industry companies in Ankara and Istanbul, including Baykar. He viewed several combat drones of various models, including Hürjet, an advanced training and light attack aircraft developed by the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ), the KIZILELMA drone, designed for air combat purposes and produced by Baykar, in addition to Bayraktar TB2 drone and T129 helicopter, developed by TUSAŞ in cooperation with the Italian company AgustaWestland. The Turkish Defense Ministry announced early May that Turkish and Egyptian Special Forces conducted joint training exercises in the capital, Ankara, from April 21-29. The ministry said in a statement on its Twitter account: 'The training included combat in populated neighborhoods, sniper training, medical training, parachute jumping, helicopter assault and landing exercises, rope landings, medical evacuation, special reconnaissance operations, and specific missions.'
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Vendor vows to hasten Turkey's fifth-generation ‘Kaan' fighter plane
ISTANBUL — Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) is working to expand flight testing and accelerate prototype production of the Kaan aircraft. The company says it now aims to deliver the first aircraft to the Turkish Air Force by the end of 2028. Speaking on the sidelines of the Teknofest aerospace and technology festival in an interview with Turkey's public broadcaster TRT, TUSAŞ CEO Mustafa Demiroğlu provided an update on the project's progress. According to Demiroğlu, assembly of the second and third prototypes is underway, with four aircraft planned in total for the test campaign – three to be used for flight trials and one for ground testing. 'The second prototype will be completed early next year and begin flight testing,' Demiroğlu said. 'We've now ignited the afterburner on the first aircraft. We are awaiting its third flight – perhaps in August or before October. But it's still too early to confirm.' The prototypes of Kaan and the first batch of low initial production will be powered by a General Electric F110, an afterburning turbofan jet engine. The aim is to replace this engine with a Turkish one by 2032. Demiroğlu noted that the second prototype will incorporate design revisions based on lessons learned from the first aircraft, including external shaping and internal structural improvements. 'The second prototype will look slightly different from the outside – particularly around the air inlets – but the overall size remains the same,' Demiroğlu explained. 'Internally, we've made weight and balance optimizations.' Known initially as TF-X, the Kaan program is Turkey's most ambitious aerospace project. Designed to replace the Turkish Air Force's aging fleet of F-4E Phantoms and eventually its F-16s, Kaan is intended to match the performance and survivability of other fifth-generation platforms. Key features of the fighter plane include low radar cross-section shaping, internal weapons bays, supercruise capability, and a domestically developed avionics suite. The aircraft's first prototype completed its maiden flight in February 2024. Currently, Kaan is the only fighter project in Europe boasting a fifth-generation label with a flying prototype. Demiroğlu emphasized that the Kaan will eventually be produced at scale to meet the operational needs of the Turkish Air Force. 'We aim to begin deliveries by the end of 2028,' he said. 'Kaan is a national project that we are developing with Turkish engineers and technicians, for the future security and independence of our country.'
