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The fifth-generation fighter, created in Turkey, will make its first flight at the end of 2023, i.e.

about two years before the originally planned date, the director of the Turkish Aerospace Company, Temel Kotil, told the private Turkish television CNN-Turk. 

Already in March, the plane is expected to turn on its engines and leave the hangar.

According to Kotil, the activities on the prototype of the aircraft are going very well.

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"We originally planned to fly in October 2025. Now we've pulled that date back. It will fly later this year," Cotill said.

Turkey implemented the project to create the Hurjet combat aircraft in 2017, TASS recalls.

The head of the Defense Industry Authority of Turkey, Ismail Demir, said some time ago that this aircraft will surpass the American fighter of the new generation F-35 in terms of tactical and technical characteristics.

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