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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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