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Tolga Kaan DOĞANCIOĞLU

Managing Director / Hexagon Studio

We are the largest privately owned design

and engineering company in Turkey

We acted as mechanical design solution provider for major OEMs in the defense industry
so far. However, our intention is to widen our scope of engineering service to niche
products such as advanced vehicle control software algorithms to be utilized on ground
combat vehicles and rotary wing/fixed wing aircrafts.

The export target of the Turkish defense that the expected annual acceleration in the
industry for 2023 was set to 25 billion USD, ascent of export rate was not achieved, but
which is indeed a great challenge when current remained almost the same. This value must
annual export values are considered. Taking be closely analyzed and monitored for the
into account the rate of increase in export coming years.
between 2010 and 2014, which is namely
15%, a simple calculation reveals that the We shall keep in mind that export performance
export shall increase 35% each year in order of the defense industry depends not only on
to achieve 2023 targets. On the other hand, the quality and functional performance of
export increased by only 4% in 2015 when end products, but also on the international
compared to 2014. Therefore, it is unfortunate relations and political conjuncture in

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