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Myanmar Air Force inducts new FTC-2000Gs

The Myanmar Air Force (MAF) has taken delivery of an initial batch of Chinese FTC-2000G multirole advanced jet trainer/light attack aircraft, which will further boost its capabilities at the beginning of a militarily critical phase of Myanmar's civil war.

Regional intelligence sources confirmed to Janes that four new FTC-2000Gs were delivered in November, while the online news magazine The Irrawaddy, which has tracked MAF procurements closely, reported on 5 December that six of the aircraft had been delivered.

The FTC-2000Gs are reportedly to be based at Namsang, in the southern part of northeastern Shan State, and will gradually replace the Sino-Pakistan-produced K-8 ‘Karakorum' trainer/light attack jets. In the MAF inventory, since the late 1990s, the ageing K-8s have continued to fly combat missions this year notably in the southern Shan-northern Kayah state zone of operations, which has seen heavy and repeated hostilities between the Myanmar Army and opposition forces.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-...ftc-2000gs

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