Turkey to Export its Hurkus-C Aircraft

Turkey is set to start exporting its locally developed close air support and training armed aircraft Hurkus-C, to a foreign customer that has not been disclosed yet. This was revealed by the  General Manager of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Temel Kotil.

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The head of Turkish Aerospace Industries, the manufacturing company of the Hurkus-C aircraft, said in an interview with CNN Turk that Turkey will soon begin exporting its domestically developed aircraft to a  country that remains undisclosed so far.

"We cannot disclose the country because the contract has not been signed yet, but it will take place,” Kotil said.

Hurkus-C is a light attack and armed reconnaissance aircraft. In addition to pilot training missions, it is developed to provide a low-cost and high accuracy solution to light attack and armed reconnaissance missions.

External load capacities of the aircraft include general-purpose bombs and homegrown ammunition. The armament options include UMTAS / LUMTAS anti-tank missile system, Roketsan Cirit 2.75in laser-guided air-to-surface rocket system, GBU-12 laser-guided bombs, MK 81 and MK 82 unguided general purpose bombs, BDU-33 and MK-106 practice bombs, and HGK-3 INS / GPS and KGK-82 wing-assisted guidance kits for general purpose bombs. The aircraft can also be armed with a 12.7mm machine gun and a 20mm machine gun pod.

Retaining the advanced capabilities of Hurkus, up to 7 external hardpoints on Hurkus-C provide its operators with an extensive payload capacity of up to 1500 kg, which can be utilised to perform demanding missions, during day&night conditions in high altitudes and harsh geographies.

Hurkus-C is a next-generation armed variant of the Hurkus basic trainer aircraft, designed and developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries. The first prototype of the Hurkus-C was unveiled in February 2017.

 

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