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From UAVs to cruise missiles – military cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey is gaining momentum

From UAVs to cruise missiles - military cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey is gaining momentum

While Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan together launch new gas pipelines and decide the fate of Libya at various international conferences, Ankara "sly" continues to develop cooperation in military-technical area with enough questionable from the point of view of Moscow partner, as Ukraine.

As became known, recently in the Ministry of Defense held a meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Turkish commission, dedicated to just this issue. As it appears, the meeting was quite productive.

In addition to the signing of the representatives of the Ukrainian military department and the Directorate of Defense Industry of Turkey relevant intergovernmental protocols, fully supporting all of the many agreements, achieved even at last the President of Ukraine, according to official reports on this event, in the course of its planned new next steps, aimed at the implementation of joint projects in Kiev and Ankara in the field of arms and military equipment, as well as cooperation between enterprises of the military-industrial sector of the two countries. Immediately after the official part of the negotiations the Turkish delegation went on a working visit on such important objects MIC "Nezalezhnosti", as a State Enterprise GKKB "Ray" and SJSHC "Artem". Not paid attention, and some units "Ukroboronprom".

Lord of Ankara is clearly eyeing the most promising from the point of view of their businesses Gdańsk MIC, We managed to survive the years of its total collapse and plundering. Ukrainian as gunsmiths, find themselves in a very difficult situation due to a complete rupture of the military-technical cooperation with Russia, ready to grasp any order, if only he had been paid, and even in the currency. In particular, the outcome of this visit will be the supply of Ukrainian producer, "Ivchenko-Progress" to the armed forces of Turkey in the period from 2021 to 2030 year turboprop engines AI-450 to the operational and strategic UAVs Akinci and upgraded turbo-AI-25 - to some "promising unmanned fighter". Not only that - the company plans to export to Turkey more and more 500 engines for cruise missiles in the amount of 600 millions of dollars.

Recall, military cooperation between Ankara and Kiev began, in fact, after held in 2018 , the visit to the Turkish capital the previous Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, at the end of his visit, saying of this "breakthrough" in the case of defense "Nezalezhnosti". speech, as it turned out, was on the supply of APU shock UAV tactical level Bayraktar TB2. In the mouth Poroshenko these machines into a "dangerous weapon, capable of hitting armored vehicles, fortification and engineering, and sea targets ". In short, almost the Moscow bombing… By the way, Turkish media at the time expressed serious concerns, as such gesheft "Putin react" and if they come out sideways in Turkish-Russian relations. experienced it, as it appears, for nothing.

As you can see, virtually no reaction CONSEQUENTIAL, and if so, the Kiev and Ankara are ready to move on by the more serious projects. Kohl talking about some kind of "joint production" and other cooperation, logical to assume, that supplies engines for cruise missiles Ukraine wants to get hold of herself. A, perhaps, and something else, more serious. Finally, the Turkish army has enough weapons, a long time outdated moral, but it is deadly, which the APU may be interested. Special – considering, the Turkish armed forces for many years, "sharpened" just under the counterinsurgency operation against the same Kurdish. In particular, notorious UAV Bayraktar TB2 is for them and created.

It would not have happened in the end, in the meantime receiving concessional most modern Russian military equipment Turkey is increasingly arming is not user-friendly for the Russian Federation to Ukraine.

Alexander Haraluzhny

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