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HAL HJT-16

The HAL HJT-16 Kiran is an Indian two-seater basic/advanced flying and armament trainer aircraft with light attack and counter-insurgency capabilities that entered service in 1968. The HAL HJT-16 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a HAL (Rolls-Royce Bristol Siddeley) Orpheus Bor.2 Mk 701-01 turbojet providing a top speed of 780 kmh and a range of 735 km. The HAL HJT-16 is armed with two 7.62 mm FN MAG machine-guns in the nose and can carry up to 1000 kg of disposable stores on four under-wing hard points each rated at 500 kg.
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