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Azerbaijan will participate in the development program of the Turkish combat aircraft TAI TF KAAN. In the future, fighters will replace the American F-16 and F-35.
Turkish and Azerbaijani specialists will jointly work on improvement of the national combat aircraft KAAN (working title TAI TF). The fighter is designed to replace the American F-16 and F-35.
Manufacturers claim that the competitive advantage of the aircraft is its high maneuverability and speed of approximately 2205 km / h.
The prototype aircraft successfully passed flight tests this spring. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the Turkish fighter was officially named KAAN.
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