Turkey and Israel will be reluctant for future defense industry sales, analysts say



Turkish-Israeli defense deals on hold



As the latest Turkish-Israeli dispute deepens over Ankara's removal of Israel from planned military exercises in Turkish air space, the two countries are struggling to complete two delayed defense industry programs.

Meanwhile, defense analysts suggest the political rows are likely to prevent Turkey and Israel from seeking any large-scale defense industry deals in the foreseeable future.

The two delayed and ongoing defense programs are Turkey's planned purchase of Israeli Herons, which are unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAV, and Israel's modernization of Turkey's M60 main battle tanks.

Israeli Aircraft Industries and Elbit won a competition against U.S. rivals in 2005 for Turkeys purchase of 10 military Herons, worth nearly $190 million. Some of the systems' parts would be produced in Turkey.

The Herons were planned to be delivered in 2007, but the incompatibility of the systems' Israeli and Turkish parts and ensuing failures of the UAV in performance tests have prevented the program's completion.

The final acceptance tests for the first four UAVs were scheduled for August, but mainly due to pilot training purposes, those tests were postponed until late October or early November, a top Turkish official told Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.

If the upcoming tests are performed successfully, the first four tested Herons, and later the remaining six are expected to be delivered to the Turkish military, marking the end of the program, the official said.

But if the UAVs fail in the upcoming final acceptance tests, Turkey will have the option to cancel the whole program.

Tank deal

On the tank front, Israeli Military Industries won a competition against U.S. rivals in 2002 for upgrading 170 M60s, a deal worth about $700 million. The program should have been completed in 2007, but a series of failures in performance tests delayed the deliveries.

"Now we are nearing the end, and hope this program will be completed before the end of the year," the procurement official said. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Israeli companies received deals worth billions of dollars to upgrade Turkish F-4E fighters, F-5 fighters, M60 tanks and the sale of several other systems.

But amid current tensions between both countries, defense deals are expected to be negatively affected, defense analysts said. "As a result of delays in earlier programs and the latest political disputes, Turkey will likely be reluctant to buy major Israeli defense systems at least in the short term," said one Ankara-based analyst.

"Likewise, the Israelis would be unwilling to sell any major arms systems to the Turks," the analyst said.

Israel's removal from drills

Earlier this month Turkey told Israel its participation in planned air exercises, dubbed the Anatolian Eagle, was unwelcome.

The exercises were planned between Oct. 12 and 23 in Turkish air space with Turkish, Israeli, U.S. and other NATO military aircraft taking part. After the United States threatened to boycott the drills because of Israel's expulsion, Turkey indefinitely postponed the international leg of the exercises.

Top Israeli officials reacted strongly against the Turkish move, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan defended the decision, saying the Turkish people did not want Israel's participation in the exercises.

Erdoan has repeatedly condemned Israel's military operations against Palestinians in Gaza in late December and January.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkish-israeli-defense-deals-on-hold-2009-10-19

the israelis are fu[king them salves up not us

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Phucked by the Jews!!!!!

Israel sucked Turkey dry. They have no more money to spend on arms. LOL

take a breath girls...

how many subs turned into swimming mushroom fields in kiel and tkms shipyads.

gayreekos wish they had influence and a pm like erdogan...

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you still claim that the turkish leaders s!ck jews, well that era is over after 2004

maybe some puppet politicians in the past did mistakes, but know we have a PM with balls who tells israel-usa to f!ck off... could not witness any same things from kakamanlis, even not against your biggest enemy TURKIYE

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The AKPians should have waited until the "delivery" of the Herons.

Let's hope they won't screw them in protest, before delivering them.

Üzerlerine iseyip teslim edecekler

Bazi vidalar gevsek olacak...

My goodness , I had no idea that the M60 Sabra situation still wasn't settled. This is like a fkin 10 year ongoing deal. The jews reamed the turks several new arseholes. GECMIS OLSIN!



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Don't you people get it? This is GOOD NEWS for Turkey. Israelis won't be able to screw us over and over again in defense deals anymore. Now only the Jews of OTHER nations can rip us off.

And we're still discuccing the Herons. WTF does TAI R&D department do? Where the fvck is our MALE TIHA? How many years will we have to wait until we see a fvcking motor on a couple of wings and a camera attached to the whole thing? TAI is so fvcking incompetent it's not even funny. And TEI is even worse.

Just put me, Orko and DDDB on the project and the fvcking thing would roll out fully loaded before the weekend.

Turk Bir Dev

Turkey seems to want to go back several centuries. They banned porn which brought in a good chunk of cash into the Turkish economy and created jobs. Now Turkish women fly off to Germany to make the porn which Turks buy so Turkey now loses money.

Now they are screwing the only Democracy in the region that gives them access to some modern military equipment while the Arabs they are sucking up to still use Soviet era Equipment. Soon Arabic will become the official language of Turkey and Turks will be required to honor kill there daughters to be politically correct

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"Now they are screwing the only Democracy in the region that gives them access to some modern military equipment while the Arabs they are sucking up to still use Soviet era Equipment. Soon Arabic will become the official language of Turkey and Turks will be required to honor kill there daughters to be politically correct"


Yeah, all that only because we take some steps away from Israel:P.. What a clever guy he is...


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this guy i dont like this guy fu[king retard mixing up everything

There is still a huge gap between the developed parts of Turkey and the lesser developed and more traditional regions in the east ! . Those ppl do favor a more traditional approach and with the US invading Iraq some ppl have felt that they have attacked there religion rather just a country , All of that has given the AKP a perfect breathing ground for there more lets say real agenda .The AKP has moved slowly and has dogged many bullets but it has managed to loosen the tide secular constitution.By now we can see there real agenda slowly unfolding ! I'm worried where is the Military hope they will not sit by and watch the ship sinking !.