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Our unmanned aerial vehicle ‘Anka’ which can stay Turkey will become a data center
at 10 thousands of meters of altitude for 24 hours Our country will become the call center and data
has begun its test flights. With the development center base of Europe and our region.
and success of ‘Anka’, we will be the 3rd country
which can produce an unmanned aerial vehicle with It will be ensured that Turkey will have at least one
strategic abilities after the USA and Israel. Almost national company, at least one national brand and
150 mini unmanned aerial vehicles which have been at least one national product which we will hold the
manufactured domestically have still been used by design and standards of it which will have a say in the
the Turkish Armed forces. Global Information and Communication Technologies
market.
The first corvette warship MILGEM has been
completely designed and constructed by our country The production of domestic cell phones will be
and begun its test runs. Our first combat helicopter supported and expanded and domestic product use
ATAK is now in prototype production phase. The jet will be increased.
engine has been produced and flown for the first
time. The mission computer as the most important Cyber threats will be prevented
control instrument of planes, helicopters and tanks Until 2015, it will be ensured that the critical
has been produced. The production activities of the information infrastructures of our country are
training plane called as HURKUS have been initiated. protected from cyber threats. Continuous and regular
The plane will be flying in the next year. improvements will be performed in the field of cyber
security and it will be provided that the domestic
These projects which develops our national defence products and systems are developed.
industry will continue in the new term without slowing
down. Turkey has announced another year of growing
defence and aerospace export sales but it is still
The first step for domestic seismic ship nowhere near its goal of US$25 billion per annum by
We go on attack in petroleum search in seas. We have 2023. In 2018, export sales were less than 10% of the
begun construction of our seismic search ship for claimed ambition. This, however, should not detract
finding our own petroleum. It will become the first too much from the progress Turkey’s defence industry
domestic seismic ship of Turkey. is making in the export arena.

The landing platform dock is coming At the start of 2019, Undersecretary for the Defence
The domestic Landing Platform Dock (LPD) has been Industry Directorate Ismail Demir said Turkish defence
constructed in order to increase the high level combat and civil aerospace exports for 2018 were 17% up on
capacity of Turkish Naval Forces. In 5 years, LPDs will the previous year, reaching a record US$2.035bn. For
join the Turkish Navy. Only 7-8 navies of the world the best part of a decade, the Turkish government
have Landing Platform Docks (LPD). has set itself the daunting target of hitting an annual
defence and civil aerospace sales and services export
National tank production is beginning target of US$25bn by 2023. ‘Defence’ and ‘security’
We have completed the design of the first Turkish exports are supposed to constitute US$5bn each of
Combat Tank ‘Altay’ as one of the biggest objectives the total.
of the Turkish Defence Industry. The serial-production
of ‘Altay’ tanks will begin in 2017. Since Turkey does not provide a breakdown by sub-
sector for defence and aerospace exports, it is difficult
Strong domestic defence industry to know just how close Ankara is from its goals in
The domestic defence industry will be strengthened each subcategory. The US$5bn ‘defence’ export sales
in any phase from design to production in order to ambition is credible. However, growing the entire
reduce foreign-source dependency in the defence ‘defence and aerospace’ sector by a factor of 12 in the
industry field. Domestic research and development next five years is less so.
projects and technology management will be
attached great importance in development of the While the official targets are confusing, what is clear
defence industry. is the progress Turkey is making towards becoming a
significant defence exporter.

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