"a reversal of a long-standing trend," Mehmet Akif Nacar told Anadolu Agency — a concise claim that captures what HAVELSAN says is at stake as it prepares to export the software backbone for the Hürjet advanced jet trainer to Spain.
What HAVELSAN will deliver to Spain and Türkiye
On 21 April 2026 HAVELSAN announced that its Flight Simulation and Mission Planning System (FSGP) will be exported to Spain as a core component of the Hürjet program, according to a company press release carried by C4Defence and confirmed by Anadolu Agency in late February 2026. Alongside the FSGP, HAVELSAN will supply a Full Mission and Flight Training Simulator for the Hürjet — deliveries that the firm says are bound both for the Turkish Air Force and for Spain. HAVELSAN expects the simulator to reach the Turkish Air Force in the fourth quarter of 2026, ahead of the aircraft’s export to Madrid.
Program numbers: Spain’s SAETA II and the package on offer
The Spanish purchase of Hürjet aircraft is framed in the source as a 30-aircraft buy under the €2.6 billion SAETA II program. HAVELSAN indicated it intends to offer the simulator and FSGP as a packaged export alongside the Hürjet for other customers as well, making the software an integral part of the aircraft sale rather than an optional add-on.
FSGP’s provenance and technical reach
FSGP is not a new product. HAVELSAN reports that development began in 2003 and that the system has been in active operational use with the Turkish Air Force since 2007, replacing a set of fragmented legacy planning tools with a single unified architecture. Reporting in EDR Magazine summarized the system’s technical scope: smart weapon and UAV mission planning, electromagnetic spectrum management, low-observability route planning, infrared search and track (IRST) integration, and network-enabled operations. Army Recognition described FSGP as a reusable mission environment that is not tied to a single aircraft but supports multiple platforms and weapons.
How the simulator work fed aircraft development
HAVELSAN’s General Manager Mehmet Akif Nacar said the company’s engineers began work on the Hürjet simulator three years ago and that they contributed directly to the aircraft’s engineering tests, cockpit scenario development, and validation during the flight-test campaign. As reported by Daily Sabah, the same engineering approach is being applied to the KAAN next-generation fighter, meaning the simulator and mission-planning work for Hürjet is also being used to seed HAVELSAN’s capability for the KAAN. Integration work is actively ongoing for KAAN, and HAVELSAN has stated that the same FSGP architecture will underpin both Hürjet and the next-generation fighter.
HAVELSAN’s recent certifications and cross-domain work
The export sits alongside other recent milestones HAVELSAN cites. In March 2026 the company received dual certification from Türkiye’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for its first domestically developed and manufactured FTD Level 2 flight simulator. In February 2026 HAVELSAN completed network-centric naval operations integration on the TCG Anadolu. DefenseHere, cited by the source, says FSGP is being adapted to meet international standards and next-generation platforms across Türkiye’s expanding combat aviation portfolio.
What this means for the Turkish Air Force, Spain, and future Hürjet buyers
- Turkish Air Force: The service will receive the Hürjet simulator in Q4 2026, reinforcing an operational planning environment HAVELSAN says it has used since 2007 and aligning training and mission-planning practices around FSGP.
- Spain (SAETA II program): Beyond the airframe purchase of 30 Hürjets under the €2.6 billion contract, Spain is adopting the software layer — the FSGP planning environment and the Full Mission and Flight Training Simulator — that will shape sortie planning, weapons configuration, simulator rehearsal and after-action evaluation.
- Future Hürjet buyers: HAVELSAN plans to offer the simulator-plus-FSGP export model to other Hürjet customers, creating a commercial template that ties aircraft sales to a common digital mission-planning backbone.
The deal, HAVELSAN says, is meant to reverse a historical pattern in which Türkiye imported simulators and planning systems from Western vendors, particularly for the F-16 fleet. Whether buyers view the package as an integrated capability advantage or as a system that creates operational dependencies will be a decision for procurement authorities to weigh. For now, the concrete milestones — simulator delivery timing, the €2.6 billion SAETA II figure, the 30-aircraft lot, and the multi-year development pedigree of FSGP dating back to 2003 — give a clear outline of what the export entails.
Source: Quwa — HAVELSAN Will Export Hürjet Flight Simulator and FSGP Mission Planning System to Spain
