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|primary user= [[Axdelian Armed Forces|Axdelian Aerospace Force]] <!-- This field is limited to ONE (1) 'primary user'. -->
|more users= see ''Operators'' <!--Only THREE (3) TOTAL 'more users'. Please separate with <br />. This list matches cited/sources list (as of July 2016) in Operators section below. -->
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(This is partially due to corruption, as well as banking on being bailed out despite overspending as they were an important supplier of military materiel. The economy going from technically still centralised, bouncing through the 1999 liberalising financial reforms and back into formalised worker ownership probably didn't help ARMS at all either, constantly twisting their priorities.)
(Late 2008 saw the first production run Q-107A built, with early run deliveries to the AAeF beginning in 2010 ahead of an expected active service date in 2012. Production at the plant in Añuur was scaled up to 80 aircraft a year by
(Despite this, cutting back on the third variant meant it still got to market just before its main competitor, the Joint [[South Hills|SH]]-[[North Concordian Economic Forum|NCEF]]-[[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]] developed HK-45. The two are broadly comparable, although the Q-107 is slightly faster and thanks to its larger internal fuel tanks has a moderately longer range. However the HK-45's VSTOL variant uses a shaft driven fan and vectored thrust from its main exhaust to provide vertical thrust which, whilst heavier, provides more lift and allows for a larger payload capacity than the Q-107B's direct lift system during vertical take off operations.)
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'''{{flagcountry|Axdel}}'''
* Axdelian Aerospace Force - 250 Q-107A's originally delivered from 2012, with an additional block of 52 contracted to replace the [[Q-103 Swift|Q-103SE]] 1:1 by 2026. 7 more were ordered in 2017 to replace [[Auroran-Cerenerian War|ACW]] and accidental losses
* Axdelian Navy - 72 Q-107B's delivered from 2013, to operate on the ''Khalanitas'' class carriers alongside the Q-104EQS
{{flagicon image|CryriaFlag.png}} '''[[Cryria]]'''
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{{flagicon image|Kéya Flag.svg}}'''[[Qayam]]'''
* Qayami Air Force -
'''{{flagcountry|Tavaris}}'''
* Royal Tavari Air Force - 34 Q-107A's delivered from 2017
* Rotal Tavari Navy - 16 Q-107B's delivered from 2018, to operate on their ''Blade of Storm'' class carriers.
=== Potential Operators ===
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