{"id":163277,"date":"2025-01-02T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/turkey-new-hurkus-2-trainer-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:10:53","slug":"turkeys-new-hurkus-2-trainer-makes-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=163277","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s New Hurkus 2 Trainer Makes Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s military aviation has taken another step in its development with its new TAI H\u00fcrku\u015f-II turboprop trainer flying for the first time. This comes after         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028277\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/turkey-kaan-fighter-vs-usaf-f-35-feuding-fighter-jet-capabilities\/\" >Turkey&#8217;s indigenous TAI KAAN multirole fighter jet flew for the first time in early 2024<\/a><\/span>. Turkey is already a noted player in advanced             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15058\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\"  >drones<\/a><\/span> or Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036311\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-turkey-bayraktar-tb3-ucav\/\" >such as the Bayraktar TB3 UCAV<\/a><\/span>). Turkey appears set to play a more important role in advanced drone and light attack and military trainer aircraft (possibly even front line             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> depending on the outcome of the KAAN program). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has successfully flown its Hurkus 2 trainer\/light attack aircraft, marking another step in its growing military aviation sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1880,628,1695,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-experimental-planes","category-fighter-jets","category-middle-east","category-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163278,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163277\/revisions\/163278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}