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It is about TF -X engineI heard that Erdogan wants to give BMC the TFX contract.
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It is about TF -X engine
From WAFF ;
Turkish and UK ministers are battling to save a flagship partnership to develop a fifth generation fighter jet. Rolls-Royce, the British aero-engine group, has been working with Turkish industrial giant Kale to bid for the engine development contract on the TF-X jet, an ambitious project to produce Turkey’s first indigenous combat aircraft. A dispute has emerged over the role of a company with close ties to Qatar and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The programme is a priority for President Erdogan, who wants to build a national defence industry to drum up nationalist support and reduce Turkey’s reliance on outsiders amid growing strains with many Nato allies. It is also crucial for the UK, which wants to develop its trading relationship with Turkey and sees the partnership as key to preserving Britain’s ability to develop military aircraft given the dearth of UK fighter programmes once production of the Typhoon combat jet comes to an end in the mid 2020s. Technology sharing raises concerns On a visit to Turkey in January 2017, Theresa May said the fighter jet partnership marked “the start of a new and deeper trading relationship with Turkey and will potentially secure British and Turkish jobs and prosperity for decades to come”. However, the project has run into problems after Turkish defence officials demanded that Rolls-Royce share sensitive technology with TR Motor, a company that is 55 per cent controlled by a subsidiary of BMC, a defence manufacturer whose major shareholders include the Qatari ministry of defence, and a businessman known for his links the Turkish president.
“The UK government does not want to fully lift export controls. They say: ‘what if in 10 years’ time there is a huge row with another country and we want to stop selling this to them?’,” said a Turkish official. Rolls-Royce executives and British ministers have told Turkey that they cannot accept an arrangement that would see TR Motor own and manage the intellectual property of the programme. “There are strict parameters around the TF-X programme,” said a person familiar with the situation. “Rolls-Royce doesn’t want a potential competitor to take the IP away and use it outside this programme for their own benefit.” Calls between Turkish and UK ministers were planned this week to discuss the issue. Gavin Williamson, Britain’s defence minister, also discussed it with his Turkish counterpart, Nurettin Canikli, on the fringes of a Nato meeting last week. IP issue threatens Rolls-Royce deal Should the two sides fail to reach an agreement, Rolls-Royce could be forced to pull out of the programme. This could call into question the role of BAE Systems, which last year signed a £100m contract with Turkish Aerospace Industries to help design the jet. About 200 BAE engineers are working with TAI in the UK and Turkey. The UK Ministry of Defence said: “The fact this issue was discussed between the two ministers tells you how seriously this is being taken. Both sides remain committed to finding a resolution.” Other people close to the subject insisted that progress was being made, and that both sides were determined to overcome the obstacles. “This is all part of the normal process of development programmes at this stage. We have had productive commercial discussion and are maintaining an active dialogue,” Rolls-Royce said. A team from the company will travel to Ankara for further talks after the presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. During President Erdogan’s trip to London last month, the two sides appeared to have resolved the IP issue. An initial agreement was signed and a deadline was set for July 31 to finalise terms, including the sharing of technology and export conditions. However, Turkish officials later renewed their demand that TR Motor supervise the propulsion programme. Turkey wants to retain full ownership BMC produces vans, buses and military vehicles. It recently won the tender to produce the first fully Turkish-made battle tank. The company is 49.9 per cent owned by the Qatari armed forces, Yasin Ozturk, a member of the board of directors, told Turkish defence magazine MSI in December. He said that a further 25 per cent was owned by Ethem Sancak, a Turkish business tycoon who once said in a newspaper he owned that after getting to know Mr Erdogan, he learnt that “divine love is possible between two men.”
Osman Dur, general manager of BMC Power, the BMC subsidiary that is working on the TF-X programme, insisted that the project “will benefit the country”. “All the IP and similar intellectual property rights gained within the scope of this project will remain in Turkey and belong to the SMM [the Turkish government’s under-secretariat for defence industries], which is providing the funding for the project,” he said. A Turkish official with knowledge of the negotiations said that BMC had offered financial support for the TF-X programme, which Turkey estimates will cost $30bn in total. He said that Qatar’s involvement could also lead to future sales of the jet to the small Gulf state. The official added: “For us, the whole point is that we want to own it. We are trying to become an independent defence producer. We don’t want restrictions imposed by outsiders.”
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Wow, I like that they really want to develop the Turbofan engine without UK and have trust on them...
İsmail Demir, yerli uçakla ilgili ise şu ifadeleri kullandı:
"Yüzlerce mühendis devrede. Hızla tasarım üzerinde çalışıyorlar. Bunun öncesi de var. Motor ile ilgili faaliyetlerimiz devam ediyor. Bir iki ay içinde 50 kadar mühendis arkadaşımız çalışmaya başladı. Bir motor yapılanması oluşturduk, bir motor şirketimiz var, bir taraftan helikopter ve diğer motor çalışmaları var, TAİ kendi bünyesinde çalışıyor, Türkiye’nin motor bilgi birikiminin bir kapta toplanması gerektiğine inandığımız için çeşitli yerlerde motor projeleri yürüyor. Bir yapılanma yaptık, bütün beyni burada oluşturmak istiyoruz. Diğer şirketlerimiz çeşitli şekilde bu sürece katılabilir ama bu bilgi birikiminin çok uzun vadede Türkiye’de ulaşması lazım. Bir iki ay içinde en az 10 tane yurt dışından tecrübeli arkadaşlarımızı transfer ettik yerli ve yabancı."
Exactly...Is he talking about TR Motor here? If that's the case then TR Motor has started work 1 or 2 months ago and currently have about 50 engineers.
This isn't bad news at all for us.Britain's Rolls-Royce is slashing 4,600 jobs
By Daniel Shane
Updated 4:49 AM EDT, Thu June 14, 2018
(CNNMoney)British engineering company Rolls-Royce plans to cut 4,600 jobs in an effort to slash costs across its business.
The firm said in a statementThursday that it would make the cuts over the next two years as it seeks to reduce annual costs by £400 million ($535 million) by 2020. Most of the job losses will be in the United Kingdom.
They come as part of a broader restructuring at Rolls-Royce. In January, the company said it planned to focus on its core business of manufacturing engines and power systems for the aviation, defense and energy industries.
The company said it will take a one-off financial hit of £500 million ($670 million) as a result of the restructuring.
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"It is never an easy decision to reduce our workforce, but we must create a commercial organization that is as world-leading as our technologies," CEO Warren East said in the statement. "To do this we are fundamentally changing how we work."
The company's shares gained more than 2% in London following the news of the job cuts.
Unite, the largest union in the United Kingdom, warned that the job cuts "could have a dire economic impact on local communities reliant on Rolls-Royce jobs."
"There is a real danger that Rolls-Royce will cut too deep and too fast with these jobs cuts, which could ultimately damage the smooth running of the company and see vital skills and experience lost," Unite official Steve Turner said in a statement.
Rolls-Royce said there would be "no compulsory redundancies of represented staff" and promised it "would continue to deliver on our commitments to customers."
"We do not anticipate that the restructuring will lead to any reduction in the skills and capabilities that we require to support our current programs," it said.
The company has roughly 50,000 employees.
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In the financial year ended March 2018, Rolls-Royce reported pretax profits of £4.9 billion ($6.6 billion) — a sharp rebound from a loss of £4.6 billion ($6.2 billion) the year before.
In early 2017, the firm paid out£671 million ($900 million) to settle corruption probes by authorities in the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil.
The company has also been grappling with problems with its Trent 1000 jet engines, which are used in Boeing 787 aircraft. It first reported issues with the line of engines in 2016.
Rolls-Royce has its origins in the luxury automaker that shares its name, but the two are separate companies now.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is owned by German car manufacturer BMW.
-- Charles Riley contributed to this report.
İs RR really going to settle down at Turkey?