When Turkey goes to the polls next month, they will be doing more than deciding the domestic future of the country — they likely will also be determining Sweden’s future with NATO.
“Turkey’s homegrown defense industry is certainly a key part of the overall package President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is offering to voters — the idea of a rising Turkey that will play hardball in an age of great power competition,” Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, told Breaking Defense.
A Ukrainian official told police in Ankara that he was conned by a Turkish defense company employee and a businessman who promised to deliver military helmets and body armor to Ukraine.
Iraq wants 12 T-129 ATAK helicopters, six Koral electronic warfare systems, and an unspecified number of TB2 Bayraktar armed drones as part of the deal, which would tie the two countries closer.
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
