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The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, jet-powered advanced trainer aircraft. It was first known as the Hawker Siddeley Hawk, and subsequently produced by its successor companies, British Aerospace and BAE Systems. It has been used in a training capacity and as a low-cost combat aircraft.
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The British Aerospace Hawk 200 is a British single-seat, single-engine, subsonic light multirole fighter designed for air defence, air denial, anti-shipping, interdiction, close air support, and ground attack. Based on the BAE Systems Hawk, Hawk 200 was developed as a dedicated combat variant of the Hawk advanced trainer family for export market.
11 Squadron was originally formed in 1984 as 11 (Close Air Support) Squadron at Doha International Air Base, Doha, operating six Dassault Alpha Jet Es. [1] In 2017, the Qatar Emiri Air Force placed an order for six BAE Systems Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers, followed by an extra three in 2018, as a replacement for the Alpha Jet.
In May 2012 the governments of the UK and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement on an arms package which saw a £1.6 billion contract awarded to BAE for the delivery of 55 Pilatus PC-21 and 22 BAE Systems Hawk aircraft. [96] The Sultanate of Oman ordered Typhoon and Hawk aircraft worth £2.5 billion in December 2012. [97]
BAE's Taranis. Photo: BAE Systems. "Predator." "Raven." "Global Hawk." Over more than a decade of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the names of America's several "drone" aircraft have entered
As the early jet-trainers became obsolete then further generations have appeared, the British using the single-engine BAE Systems Hawk while the French ordered the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet. In the Warsaw Pact the Aero L-39 Albatros became the standard jet trainer.
Continuing to this day, variants of the BAe Hawk are built at Brough. On 7 September 2007, however, the company announced that it intended to fly all future Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer aircraft [5] from Brough to Warton at a rate of two per month. On 28 January 2008, flying resumed with the take-off of a demonstration version of the Hawk. [6]