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Turkey is right now totally depending on the Ukraine Motor Sich company deal. If Turkey wins a 50 percent share then it will be a massive win. But still, I doubt the US will let Ukraine sell helicopter engines to Turkey for Pak T129. Motor Sich already supplying engines to Turkish new UAV programs. The Chinese company is also after this Ukrainians for 4.5 billion dollar lawsuit for breach of the deal of Motor Sich takeover.
So far, 72 ATAK T129s have been delivered(2 of them to Philippines). The localization rate of these helicopters is around 65% as of now. Although all export and marketing rights of the program belong to Turkey, it is basically a forked project based on the Italian Mangusta A-129 model.
Turkey's current indigenous engine projects are more related to national aviation programs. Likewise, Ukrainian turboshaft engines, for example, are also planned for ATAK-II.
As the mid-term solution/plan B is more about the concept that introduced with the code name T-626. However, unlike its first launch, that project is gradually evolving towards an unmanned and electric air attack vehicle project by TAI.
Partnerships in the UAV field, on the other hand, mostly run jointly. While the production of UAVs on a strategic scale such as AKINCI will begin in Ukraine, some specific engines will be developed within the body of JV, which was formed with Ivchenko-Progress in Turkey.
In the new formation called Black Sea Shield, Baykar Makina has a 51% stake and Ivchenko-Progress a 49% stake. We will see in the near future whether this investments will successfully diversify the resources of the Turkish defense industry projects.
On the other hand, TEI, the largest aviation engine manufacturing and engineering company in Turkey, has started deliveries in many projects independently of this process and is nearing the end for others. There are many other Turkish companies working in this field, both on the basis of end products and subsystems, and I don't feel the need to go into very detailed content that is not the subject of this thread. MotorSich is choosed as one of the alternative suppliers for some projects in Turkey. Not planned as the only supplier.