Round-up on IDEA '89 in Ankara; the Turkish defense industry in search of partners.
Armada International › Vol. 13 Nbr. 4, August 1989
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Turkey's International Defense Equipment and Avionics Exhibition; includes related article
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Round-up on IDEA '89 in Ankara; the Turkish defense industry in search of partners.
Round-up on IDEA '89 in Ankara
IDEA 89, Turkey's second International Defence Equipment and Avionics Exhibition, took place in Ankara between 2-6 May against a background of progress in some of the major programmes for the modernisation of the country's armed forces. Peace Onyx, the programme for co-production of 152 F-16 aircraft is on track, and the programme for 1 600 FMC-Nurol AIFVs is moving ahead. Likewise the Memorandum of Understanding for the production of MLRS was signed in 1988, contractual negotiations begun for new EW systems for the Air Force and headway made with a new tactical communications system. A number of key decisions must be taken soon, notably as regards new transport aircraft, recovery tanks, and long-range field artillery. However, at IDEA these were overshadowed by the need for complex decisions on the 3D Mobile Long-Distance Radar and Low-Level Air Defence programmes. IDEA reflected the various proposals on offer for the former, with Westinghouse, General Electric and Thomson-CSF contesting the radar equipment requirement...See the full content of this document
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