Turkey shakes hands with USA Sikorsky in US$3.5 billion chopper deal

[Lankan Ranger]

Turkey shakes hands with USA Sikorsky in US$3.5 billion chopper deal

Turkey’s Minister of Defense Vecdi Gönül said on Thursday that the country has given the public tender opened for the procurement of 109 helicopters to American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky.

Gönül spoke to reporters following a Defense Industry Executive Committee (SSİK) meeting in the country’s capital Ankara.

He said as part of the deal state-owned TUSAŞ Engine Industries (TIE) will be the main contracting party for the production of certain parts of the said choppers, including their engine and body as well as some software they use in Turkey.

The deal was finalized for the production of 109 choppers initially yet this number can go up as high as 600, Gönül told the media.

Turkey shakes hands with US Sikorsky in $3.5 bln chopper deal

 

[Saithan]

Turkey shakes hands with USA Sikorsky in US$3.5 billion chopper deal

Turkey’s Minister of Defense Vecdi Gönül said on Thursday that the country has given the public tender opened for the procurement of 109 helicopters to American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky.

Gönül spoke to reporters following a Defense Industry Executive Committee (SSİK) meeting in the country’s capital Ankara.

He said as part of the deal state-owned TUSAŞ Engine Industries (TIE) will be the main contracting party for the production of certain parts of the said choppers, including their engine and body as well as some software they use in Turkey.

The deal was finalized for the production of 109 choppers initially yet this number can go up as high as 600, Gönül told the media.

Turkey shakes hands with US Sikorsky in $3.5 bln chopper deal

So the deal is 500 mio. USD lower plus a great parts of the chopper will be constructed in turkey, body, engine and some software used by the turkish military... isn't that almost equivalent to tech transfer, where they're just using a different way of describing it.....

Another reason why they won is probably that Turkey gets permission to sell it to third part countries.

Turkish defence minister Vecdi Gonul has named Sikorsky’s T-70 Black Hawk as the winner of the nation’s general purpose helicopter project, which covers the planned delivery of 121 aircraft.

Gonul announced the selection following a 21 April meeting by Turkey’s undersecretary of defence industries (SSM). This had last month adjourned having failed to reach a decision and requested discounted prices.

A development of the S-70 Black Hawk, the T-70 will be produced in Turkey under an agreement between Sikorsky and Turkish Aerospace Industries. Negotiations will start soon and a production agreement will be signed before the end year of this year.

According to the SSM, Turkey will produce transmissions, landing gears, engine parts and avionics for the T-70, including mission computer hardware. Ankara will also gain the right to make direct sales of the model to other countries, with the SSM having forecast a market for 600 over the next 20 years.

The general purpose helicopter programme is expected to include the production of 20 T-70s for the Turkish land forces, 11 for special forces and six each for its air force, navy and electronic systems command. Thirty will go to the nation’s Gendarma, 20 to the police and 20 for use as firefighting aircraft by the forest ministry.

Ankara’s decision comes as a blow to AgustaWestland, which had been offering to supply a TUH-149 development of its AW149 design.

The Turkish army already operates more than 50 S-70 Black Hawks.

 

[jha]

Black Hawk is surely a great choice...

 

[AKINCI]

T-70 with Turkish avionics

 

[ARSENAL6]

Ahh so thats how the west control the Mulsim countries and stop them to run thier own region

.................by gifts.

 

[AKINCI]

Don't worry jew. Turkish light helicopter is on the way.

 

[AKINCI]

Some Blackhawk pics from Turkish Army

 

[Alperen]

It will be paid cant you read that? 3.5 billion USD.. how can that be gift you troll

 

[ARSENAL6]

Don't worry jew. Turkish light helicopter is on the way.

...thus stopping you becoing a power region.

 

[ovarel]

...thus stopping you becoing a power region.

this deal is not a deal that you think..its a PROJECT..the project that will provide us enough technologic and industrial capability in order to produce our own utility heli..and probably its the last time we are getting a foreign heli..

technologic and industrial gains is not easy to achieve and this project will benefit us..we are not KSA,we are not only buying helis,if you look at the details of the project you will see it...

 

[SpArK]

Don't worry jew. Turkish light helicopter is on the way.

Wow this looks absolutly fantastic...

 

[silko]

this deal is not a deal that you think..its a PROJECT..the project that will provide us enough technologic and industrial capability in order to produce our own utility heli..and probably its the last time we are getting a foreign heli..

technologic and industrial gains is not easy to achieve and this project will benefit us..we are not KSA,we are not only buying helis,if you look at the details of the project you will see it...

Just forget that troll, he mad because hes jewish rabbits cant make a thing like that

:turkeyflag:

oh my bad, you need to make a turkish flag man. where is the mods when you need them!