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TURKEY MAY GIVE NOD TO RUSSIAN MISSILE DEFENSE OFFER - OFFICIAL
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17:52 26.03.2015(updated 17:56 26.03.2015) Get short URL
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Turkey may reconsider a Russian proposal to jointly develop a missile
defense complex if the price is right and the technology transfer
terms are more acceptable to Ankara, a high-ranking official said in
Ankara earlier this week.
(c) AFP 2015/ ADEM ALTAN Is Turkey Turning Towards A Full Eurasian
Pivot?
Turkey launched a tender for the purchase of long-range air defense
systems in 2009. In 2013, Ankara announced that it had selected
China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp's (CPMIEC) FD-2000
area defense system for its air and missile defense requirement,
dubbed T-LORAMIDS.
Beijing said it would line up the system for just $3.4 billion.
Moreover, unlike the other bidders, Beijing agreed to have some of
the missiles' components to be built in Turkey, and to hand their
construction technology over to the Turkish side.
CPMIEC's bid beat out the more expensive proposals from Italian-French
consortium Eurosam, maker of the SAMP/T Aster 30; a US partnership
of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, maker of the Patriot; and Russia's
Rosoboronexport, which makes the S-300/S-400.
The announcement caused concern among Turkey's NATO allies, above
all the United States. After the Chinese firm failed to meet all of
the conditions of the $3.4 billion tender Turkey announced it would
study rival bids.
"We could reconsider the Russian offer if the price and technology
transfer terms are significantly improved to make them more acceptable
to us," the Turkish official said.
Read more:
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020049142.html#ixzz3VViS0uI1
From: Baghdasarian
(c) Sputnik/ Mihail Mokrushin
Europe
17:52 26.03.2015(updated 17:56 26.03.2015) Get short URL
117460
Turkey may reconsider a Russian proposal to jointly develop a missile
defense complex if the price is right and the technology transfer
terms are more acceptable to Ankara, a high-ranking official said in
Ankara earlier this week.
(c) AFP 2015/ ADEM ALTAN Is Turkey Turning Towards A Full Eurasian
Pivot?
Turkey launched a tender for the purchase of long-range air defense
systems in 2009. In 2013, Ankara announced that it had selected
China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp's (CPMIEC) FD-2000
area defense system for its air and missile defense requirement,
dubbed T-LORAMIDS.
Beijing said it would line up the system for just $3.4 billion.
Moreover, unlike the other bidders, Beijing agreed to have some of
the missiles' components to be built in Turkey, and to hand their
construction technology over to the Turkish side.
CPMIEC's bid beat out the more expensive proposals from Italian-French
consortium Eurosam, maker of the SAMP/T Aster 30; a US partnership
of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, maker of the Patriot; and Russia's
Rosoboronexport, which makes the S-300/S-400.
The announcement caused concern among Turkey's NATO allies, above
all the United States. After the Chinese firm failed to meet all of
the conditions of the $3.4 billion tender Turkey announced it would
study rival bids.
"We could reconsider the Russian offer if the price and technology
transfer terms are significantly improved to make them more acceptable
to us," the Turkish official said.
Read more:
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020049142.html#ixzz3VViS0uI1
From: Baghdasarian