Turkey's attack helicopter that performs at one time the largest defense industry exports, the Philippines is preparing to add to this success.
Defense Industry Cooperation between the Philippines and Turkey have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
At the ceremony held at Villamore Air Base, the memorandum was signed by the Defense Ministry Secretary General Delfin Lorenzana and Defense Industry President İsmail Demir.
Said signed by the two countries in the cooperation in the defense industry field text and the front of the product sales opened Turkey's attack helicopter that performs the largest defense industry exports at a time, it is preparing to add to the Philippines this success.
Following the signing ceremony, Demir gave Lorenzana an attack helicopter and MILGEM corvette, and the Philippines Air Force commander Ltgen Galileo Gerard Kintanar gave a model of attack helicopter. Tamer Özmen, head of the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Tamer Özmen, and the company officials attended the ceremony.
While trying to strengthen the Philippine air fleet with the Atak helicopter, the signatures on the defense industry in the field of defense and product sales, and thus the export of Atak helicopters were opened.
The door will open
Iron, the signature ceremony after the AA correspondent, said the signature of the defense industry, "the state-to-state cooperation" in the field of cooperation, he said.
Demir signed with the signature of a platform for the use, sales, support and technical cooperation of the various platforms in the Philippines, Demir said:
"Currently, many projects are being created and sales of pistols and ammunition have been carried out in the past, as well as night vision binoculars and sales have been carried out and marine vehicles such as Atak helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, MILGEM and boats are on the agenda. Although the helicopter is prominent, the issue is not only Atak, but also air, sea platforms, tanks on land platforms, mid-range tanks, modernization of armored vehicles, shooting platforms, etc. These issues are important in the agenda. Our training planes, unmanned aerial vehicles, general purpose helicopters, will have the opportunity to talk all of them broadly. "
Key elements
Demir stated that the key elements in the relationship with the Philippines were technological cooperation and local talent development.Turkey's pointing to the experience in these matters Iron, "we've applied is attracting interest defense policies. Because these countries that Turkey implements how a model, they wonder how come until today. Itself up the product, which is curious in our interviews level ministries. These elements also, we share with them, we will share. " said.
"We were saying we were going to catch up."
"The first concrete result of the signature will be seen with the export Atak" question Iron, "God willing, we are waiting for him. Night vision binoculars, sights, pistols have a long relationship, there is a nice atmosphere formed by them. This will continue in the future." he said.
Emphasizing the establishment of a local support mechanism in the Philippines in the light of the relationship established with night vision and sights, Demir emphasized that
"Hopefully Atakallah is the next step of this, the number also gradually increases. Because we rely on our product. Because it is a helicopter that fills with its performance on the world platforms, it attracts so much attention, it can get ahead of its competitors. "We are always saying that we will catch an acceleration with the launch of the platforms in the sense of the export of the defense industry and the performance of the defense industry. We think we are about to catch this momentum."
"The option is more important for us. The first number is not very big, it is a little under 10, there is an option that is well above 10". used.
Export champion Atak
TAI signed a contract with the Pakistan Defense Production Ministry for the sale of 30 Atak helicopters within the year.
The largest defense industry exports made at one time in the history of the Republic of Turkey in this contract realized.
