AHRLAC gets airborne

South Africa’s Paramount Group announced on 13 August that its AHRLAC [advanced high-performance reconnaissance light aircraft] has entered flight testing; just shy of three years after launching the indigenous project.

“Unique-looking” is probably the nicest way to describe the prototype’s look, although we certainly do like the chosen camouflage scheme (squint a bit and it’s almost a mini OV-10 Bronco with Slovakia’s funky MiG-29 markings; or is that just me?).

Paramount describes the twin-seater as being “the first military fixed-wing aircraft to be fully designed, tested and developed in Africa”, and lists a broad range of potential applications for a production-standard version.

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