{"id":535616,"date":"2025-10-29T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/535616\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:56:15","slug":"spain-approves-purchase-of-turkish-hurjet-for-pilot-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/535616\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain approves purchase of Turkish Hurjet for pilot training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Spain has approved the acquisition of a new system for advanced fighter pilot training, which will feature a customized version of the supersonic Turkish-made Hurjet. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">According to a statement by Spain\u2019s Cabinet following their Tuesday meeting, the contract for the new integrated training system, valued at \u20ac3.12 billion ($3.62 billion), will run through 2035, with no possibility of extension,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> News.Az<\/a> reports citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/ded9e404d542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The training aircraft will be based on Turkish Aerospace Industries\u2019 (TAI) Hurjet, a supersonic, two-seat advanced trainer, news portal\u00a0Actualidad Aeroespacial\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The planes will be produced at TAI facilities in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/turkiye-and-jordan-sign-joint-economic-commission-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> and adapted in Spain with domestic high-performance systems and the Integrated Training System \u2013 Combat (ITS-C) platform.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Under the programme, Airbus Defence and Space Spain will serve as the national industry coordinator, the portal reported.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;The agreement will leverage Airbus&#8217;s expertise in design, manufacturing, systems integration, in-service support, and training, along with Turkish Aerospace&#8217;s innovative design of the Hurjet, a supersonic, single-engine, two-seat training aircraft with advanced capabilities,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain has approved the acquisition of a new system for advanced fighter pilot training, which will feature a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,61771,173065,104,10576],"class_list":{"0":"post-535616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-hurjet","11":"tag-pilot-trainign","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-turkiye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115458040354507366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}