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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the Defense Industry Implementation Committee (SSİK) to convene for an extraordinary meeting to conclude the tender of a long-range air defense system that was postponed for several times.
The project has a cost of $4 billion.
The SSİK would have its regular meeting in June but it will gather instead on March 26 after Erdoğan's call for a meeting.
The meeting will be attended by Erdoğan, Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel and Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz.
Bidders for the tender are American Patriot, Russian Antey 2500, Chinise HQ-9 and French-Italian partnership Eurosam Samp-T.
Defense sources, who talked to Today's Zaman on condition of anonymity, said the SSİK generally holds two meetings every year. The first meeting was held in January and the second meeting was slated for June but there has been a request for an extraordinary meeting from Erdoğan.
Officials from the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry (SSM) said the final decision will be made by Erdoğan.
They said, unlike previous prime ministers, Erdoğan follows the SSİK meetings closely and asks many questions to defense ministry bureaucrats on the projects.
In addition to the tender of the long-range air defense system, new projects to be launched in the defense sector will be discussed at the meeting.
A decision for the mass production of Turkiye's first national unmanned aerial vehicle, Anka (Phoenix), may also come out of this meeting.
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China also underbids ($3 Billion) Raytheon proposal for Turkiye's new missile defense system
The race for Turkey’s missile tender, worth $4 billion, is warming up, with China bidding below $3 billion and thus forcing the U.S. to decrease its offer in order to stay in the competition, anonymous sources have claimed.
Despite representatives of Raytheon declining to comment on the tender process, according to the sources the U.S. firm has been working hard to rehabilitate its offer for the Patriot system. . . .
For the estimated $4 billion contract, the pan-European company Eurosam, maker of the Surface-to-Air Missile Platform/Terrain Aster 30 system, is competing with a Raytheon-Lockheed partnership marketing Patriots; Russia’s Rosoboronexport, marketing the S-300 system; and China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corp., offering its HQ-9.
http://www.acus.org/natosource/china-underbids-raytheon-proposal-turkeys-new-missile-defense-system
The project has a cost of $4 billion.
The SSİK would have its regular meeting in June but it will gather instead on March 26 after Erdoğan's call for a meeting.
The meeting will be attended by Erdoğan, Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel and Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz.
Bidders for the tender are American Patriot, Russian Antey 2500, Chinise HQ-9 and French-Italian partnership Eurosam Samp-T.
Defense sources, who talked to Today's Zaman on condition of anonymity, said the SSİK generally holds two meetings every year. The first meeting was held in January and the second meeting was slated for June but there has been a request for an extraordinary meeting from Erdoğan.
Officials from the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry (SSM) said the final decision will be made by Erdoğan.
They said, unlike previous prime ministers, Erdoğan follows the SSİK meetings closely and asks many questions to defense ministry bureaucrats on the projects.
In addition to the tender of the long-range air defense system, new projects to be launched in the defense sector will be discussed at the meeting.
A decision for the mass production of Turkiye's first national unmanned aerial vehicle, Anka (Phoenix), may also come out of this meeting.
SS
China also underbids ($3 Billion) Raytheon proposal for Turkiye's new missile defense system
The race for Turkey’s missile tender, worth $4 billion, is warming up, with China bidding below $3 billion and thus forcing the U.S. to decrease its offer in order to stay in the competition, anonymous sources have claimed.
Despite representatives of Raytheon declining to comment on the tender process, according to the sources the U.S. firm has been working hard to rehabilitate its offer for the Patriot system. . . .
For the estimated $4 billion contract, the pan-European company Eurosam, maker of the Surface-to-Air Missile Platform/Terrain Aster 30 system, is competing with a Raytheon-Lockheed partnership marketing Patriots; Russia’s Rosoboronexport, marketing the S-300 system; and China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corp., offering its HQ-9.
http://www.acus.org/natosource/china-underbids-raytheon-proposal-turkeys-new-missile-defense-system
