China won Turkey's missile defense competition

ABC78 said:

Did Turkey qualify to receive subsidies if they purchased Patriots? Since many of the US's arms clients are said to receive subsidies courtesy of the US taxpayer.

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

I don't think the buy US incentive would have been offered here along with there upgrade there is one other trend I have noticed about Turkish arms buys. When they decided on HK416 for there new rifle they licensed production instead of importation, when they bought the K2 tank and howitzers from Korea they designed there own vehicle around the tech. When they bought the eurocopter mangusta they licensed production, when they bought the UH60T they licensed production. The US government arms incentive is based on buy American made. This program likely would be Turkish made. Even the HQ9s built will likely be made in Turkey, not China.

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t2contra said:

I'm still waiting for the development to appear on western media.

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(Reuters) - NATO member Turkey has chosen a Chinese defense firm that has been sanctioned by Washington to co-produce a $4 billion long-range air and missile defense system, rejecting rival bids from Russian, U.S. and European firms.

The Turkish defense minister announced the decision to award the contract to China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp (CPMIEC) in a statement on Thursday.

In February, the United States announced sanctions on CPMIEC for violations of the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act.

It did not say precisely what CPMIEC had done, but Washington has penalized the company before. In 2003, Washington said it was extending sanctions on the firm for arms sales to Iran. It was unclear when those measures were first imposed.

Officials at state-run CPMIEC, the marketing arm of China's missile manufacturing industry, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Turkey, which has the second-largest deployable military force in the NATO alliance, has no long-range missile defense system of its own, but NATO has deployed the U.S.-built Patriot air and missile defense system there since 2012.

The winning Chinese FD-2000 system beat the Patriot, the Russian S-400 and the French-Italian Eurosam Samp-T.

Raytheon Co (RTN.N), which builds the Patriot missile system, said it had been informed about the Turkish decision and hoped to get a briefing soon. It said there were 200 Patriot units deployed in 12 countries, including Turkey.

"NATO has long supported the system, deploying Patriots in five aligned countries and, in 2012, providing a requested Patriot deployment to Turkey. Given this strong performance, we hope to have an opportunity to debrief and learn more about this decision," Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said.

MADE IN CHINA

CPMIEC does not make missiles itself. The two main manufacturers are China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC). CASC makes intercontinental ballistic missiles, while CASIC focuses on short- and intermediate-range rockets.

After decades of steep military spending increases and cash injections into local contractors, experts say some Chinese-made equipment is now comparable to Russian or Western weaponry.

China last year became the world's fifth-biggest arms supplier with 5 percent of the market, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Pakistan was its biggest buyer.

Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz's statement also said a contract to produce six corvette ships by Koc Holding (KCHOL.IS), Turkey's biggest conglomerate, had been canceled. A contract to build two ships would be awarded to the Turkish naval shipyard. The construction of four remaining ships will be put out to tender later, Yilmaz said.

Koc Holding was recently accused of backing the 1997 military overthrow of Turkey's first Islamist-led government, sending the firm's shares tumbling on fears of a deepening vendetta against the country's secular business elite.

The Turkish government launched a probe into the taxes of Koc energy firms in July, weeks after criticizing one of the family's hotels for sheltering protesters during anti-government unrest that rocked several cities over the summer.

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antiterror13 said:

Does it mean NATO (The US) will have access to HQ-9 SAMs ?

Anyway .. more $$$ available for the Chinese to even develop more advanced system, HQ-9C/D maybe

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t2contra said:

I'm still waiting for the development to appear on western media.

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SinoSoldier said:

China's bid was also the cheapest out of the others, which almost certainly had an effect on the outcome. However, the HQ-9 is a markedly powerful system comprising of a 200 km range missile supported by a network of advanced LO spotting AESA radars, with which China has plenty of experience.

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