Turkey Says Flight Simulators Save $80M

ANKARA — Turkey has said that it saved about $80 million thanks to a flight simulator center it launched one year ago.

Turkey's procurement office, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), said that within the first year of operating its flight simulator center, the Air Force training concept saved $80 million from reduced real flights.

It said a total of 21,000 hours of KT-1T and 9,000 hours of T-38M flights were saved in one year.

The simulator center was built by Turkish military software company Havelsan, based here.

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