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TURKEY, FRANCE ROW MAY JEOPARDIZE MISSILE SALE
DefenseWorld.net
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Dec 23 2011
Turkey's suspension of military cooperation with France may make it
harder to sell the Franco-Italian Aster 30 air defense missile to
the Turkish authorities, a defense executive said Dec. 23.
Ankara froze bilateral defense cooperation and recalled its ambassador
to France in retaliation to a new French law making it illegal to deny
that genocides took place, including the deaths of Armenians in 1915.
"It doesn't make things easier, that's for sure," the executive
said. "That makes relations tense with France." Eurosam, a joint
venture between French electronics company Thales and European
missile maker MBDA, is prime contractor for the Sol-Air Moyenne
Portee/Terrestre (SAMP/T) ground-based air defense system.
The SAMP/T system is competing in Turkey's tender for a long-range
air and missile defense system. It is ranged against the Patriot
missile from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, the S300 from Russia's
Rosoboronexport, and the HQ-9 from China Precision Machinery
Import-Export Corp. (CPMIEC).
DefenseWorld.net
http://www.defenseworld.net/go/defensenews.jsp?id=6407&h=Turkey,%20France%20Row%2 0May%20Jeopardize%20Missile%20Sale
Dec 23 2011
Turkey's suspension of military cooperation with France may make it
harder to sell the Franco-Italian Aster 30 air defense missile to
the Turkish authorities, a defense executive said Dec. 23.
Ankara froze bilateral defense cooperation and recalled its ambassador
to France in retaliation to a new French law making it illegal to deny
that genocides took place, including the deaths of Armenians in 1915.
"It doesn't make things easier, that's for sure," the executive
said. "That makes relations tense with France." Eurosam, a joint
venture between French electronics company Thales and European
missile maker MBDA, is prime contractor for the Sol-Air Moyenne
Portee/Terrestre (SAMP/T) ground-based air defense system.
The SAMP/T system is competing in Turkey's tender for a long-range
air and missile defense system. It is ranged against the Patriot
missile from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, the S300 from Russia's
Rosoboronexport, and the HQ-9 from China Precision Machinery
Import-Export Corp. (CPMIEC).