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BAE Systems Hawk 100

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Family of single turbofan advanced jet trainer. Earlier models include Hawk 50, Hawk 60, and Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) variants: Hawk 128/132/165/166/167.

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Turbofan

Application

Attack, Trainer

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Aluminium

Wing

Aluminium

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

Bleed air

Pressurisation

Pressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Hydro-mechanical

Autopilot

3-axis

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Environmental control

Engine-bleed air-cycle

Configuration & certification

Planform

Swept

Tail

Conventional

Certification

Military

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Head-up display Standard

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Notes
BAE Systems Hawk 50	1968 / 1974	Initial export variant of light attack aircraft family.
BAE Systems Hawk 60	1980 / 1981	Upgraded variant, with improved aerobatic ability and engines.
BAE Systems Hawk 100	1982 / 1989	Production: 5 (2021) Hawk 167 estimate. Ugraded ground attack variant, with new wing design and improved weapons systems, includes Advanced Hawk & Hawk-i variants.

Airframer

BAE Systems plc	News
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (Aircraft Division Bangalore)	News	Advanced Hawk trainer & Hawk-i variant

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