Meeting financial requirements doesn't mean 'cheap', just within a given budget and meeting off-set requirements. Considering we're handing over surplus equipment to other NATO members with less high tech equipment, why wouldn't the Dutch also use their military purchases as a policy tool? And there have been no instances where something other than the best system was bought for one reason or another? Right.
Turkey is installing Smart-S Mk2 3D medium-range surface radars on a total of 10 of its warships. In cooperation with the radar's producer, Thales Nederland, Turkish defense electronics company Aselsan will manufacture the radar under license for eight upgrades of existing ships and one new-build MILGEM. Thales Nederland already sold its first Smart-S Mk2 to Turkey in 2007, also for a MILGEM.
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Might the deal for the Aselsan missile launchers perhaps also be an off-set purchase? You don't think that should be considered as a possibility