Füze Sistemlerinin alımları sırasında Teknoloji Transferi MBDA offers Turkey full missile technology
European missile maker MBDA is hopeful to win a multibillion-dollar Turkish tender which would enable it to build Turkey’s long-range air and missile defense system, known as T-Loramids.
MBDA –a missile developer and manufacturer with operations in France, Britain, Germany, and Italy– offers Turkey a complete freedom of technology transfer in case of a cooperation.
MBDA and French company Thales are partners in Eurosam. Eurosam is the industrial prime contractor and system design authority for the development, production, marketing and sales of a range of medium-range naval and ground-launched air-defence missiles, systems that were developed under contract from the French and Italian governments.
In a press tour at MBDA facilities in Italy, company executives gave information about company profile and its operations, as well as their possible bid for T-Loramids project. MBDA officials guaranteed a joint understanding in developing Turkey’s air and missile defense system, saying that MBDA products were the latest generation in NATO’s joint defense systems.
MBDA executives said their products offer a great number of advantages against their U.S., Russian and Chinese rivals in T-Loramids tender, which they said were a full and unconditional technology transfer, NATO-compatibility, and joint production of T-Loramids missile systems, including a national software and industrial partnership and cooperation with Turkish defense industry firms.
Last month, MBDA signed a framework agreement with Turkish defense industry companies Aselsan, Roketsan and Ayesas to develop an air defense system. The agreement prescribes a certain road map for cooperation.
Russian and Chinese systems do not offer NATO-compatible missiles, MBDA executives said, adding that producer of U.S. Patriot missiles does not allow freedom of technology transfer. Company’s experts said MBDA would work together with Turkey also to develop a new generation missile launcher, if they won the T-Loramids tender for which U.S. Patriot, Russian S-400 and Chinese FD-2000 systems are expected to compete with Eurosam’s Samp-T.
MBDA produces around 3,000 missiles annually, and has a turnover of more than 3 billion euro. It is also interested in a project to build NATO’s planned missile shield.
Meanwhile, officials of Italy’s defense industry giant Finmeccanica, a partner in MBDA, offered Turkey to jointly build Eurofighter jets as Turkey’s F-4 fleet is too old and it would take at least 10 years for the first F-35 fighter jet delivery.
Finmeccanica officials said Turkish F-16 fleet should be reinforced by 40 to 60 EU-made, twin-engine, delta-wing Eurofighter jets, valued at 2-3 billion USD. They said new generation Eurofighters could be manufactured jointly by EU and Turkey.
A Finmeccanica company, Agusta Westland, was awarded an 2008 tender to co-produce Turkey’s first national assault helicopter T129 ATAK together with Turkey’s TAI. Mass production of ATAK helicopters is due in 2013.
Avrupalilar, eger bizim sistemimizi tercihederseniz ve bizimle ortak üretime katilirsaniz, size istediginiz kadar teknoloji transferi saglariz diyorlar. Örnek olarakta ATAK projesi ve son yillardaki Italyan ve Türk askeri projeleri gösteriliyor.
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