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'                                                          all-weather air superiority fighter, being devel-  [ AIR  SYSTEMS ]
                                                                       oped by the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)
                                                                       in collaboration with BAE Systems.

                                                                       TAAC, founded to develop capabilities in land-
         TAAC'tical  ing gears, flight control systems and aviation
        Approach                                                       aerospace giant Turkish Aerospace and the
                                                                       test  systems,  is  a  joint  venture  owned  by

                                                                       Turkish technology pioneer Altinay. Despite the
                                                                       short time since the foundation of TAAC, the
                                                                       Company took great responsibilities in order
                                                                       to support challenging projects within ongoing
                                                                       Turkish platform programs. The Iron Bird Test
         MAGNAGHI AERONAUTICA IS PARTNERING WITH                       System of Hürjet is one of those programs in
         TURKISH COMPANIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT                         which TAAC is taking the lead.
         OF LANDING GEARS FOR HÜRJET AND TF-X
                                                                       MA will be in charge of providing the techni-
                                                                       cal know-how on landing gears and landing
                                                                       gear sub systems that is needed to develop in
           Jay Menon                                                   TAMAC all the knowledge required to perform
                                                                       the scope. For hydraulic and electromechan-
        Magnaghi Aeronautica (MA), a MA Group company, operating in the  ical devices both TAAC and MA will provide
        aerospace sector with plants in Italy, Brazil and the United States,  the technical know-how needed to develop in
        joined forces with Turkey’s TAAC Aerospace Technologies to  TAMAC all the knowledge required to perform
        develop and manufacture landing gears and related sub-sytems.  the scope, he added.

        A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed with TAAC for  Currently, MA is partnering with the Turkish
        the establishment of a joint venture to be named TAMAC. The joint  Aerospace (TA) for the development of landing
        venture agreement will be signed and announced shortly. The aim of  gears for Hürjet, the advanced jet trainer and
        this joint venture company is to develop landing gears and landing  light attack aircraft. TAAC has been providing
        gears related subsystems such as Hydraulic & Electromechanical  engineering services to MA within this scope.
        devices for air platforms including qualifications, manufacturing and  Hürjet program is constantly developing and
        MRO activities. The final goal being the creation of a reliable supply  it reached the critical design review (CDR)
        chain in Turkey for the development, production and sustainment  milestone: a key step in the timeline of a devel-
        of landing gears locally, while integrating the joint venture into the  opment program. This marked the launch of the
        global supply chain.                                           production activity.
           Last June, as a first step towards the new partnership, TAAC and
        MA signed a contract for the TF-X LGS Phase 1 development. The  A  forthcoming  significant  achievement  will
        Turkish Aerospace TF-X is a fifth-generation stealth twin-engine,  come soon, when the Hürjet Iron Bird Test


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