Clearday-TRForce
03-16-2006, 10:29 AM
By Isa Sezen, Torino
Published: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
zaman.com
European and American companies are battling it out in the competition to secure Turkey’s project to buy 120 aircraft worth 10 billion euros by 2023 to rejuvenate its defense power.
Four European countries, co-manufacturers of Eurofighter, the most developed fourth generation war plane model, are exerting every effort to include Turkey in the consortium.
Officials from the Italian company, Alenia, marketing the plane to Turkey, took the opportunity of Turkish Minister for Industry and Trade Ali Coskun’s visit to Italy to develop commercial cooperation and lobbied on the issue.
The company’s top administrators took Coskun to Torino to promote the manufacturing line, where the minister was treated to a display of Eurofighter aircraft.
The Eurofighter project includes UK, Germany, Spain and Italy is represented by Alenia.
Eurofighters can easily be programmed to conduct air to air attacks to air to land attacks.
The consortium, considering potential countries such as Austria, Saudi Arabia and Norway as customers, want to include Turkey in the manufacturing line, officially communicated its proposal for a manufacturing cooperation to Turkey last month.
If Turkey accepts the proposal, technology from European countries will be transferred and the manufacture of some certain Eurofighter parts will be given the go ahead. The manufacturing line of the aircrafts to be purchased will also be established in Turkey.
Italian Alenia’s CEO Mancusi Giovanni said they want to include Turkey as an indispensable strategic partner in Europe’s biggest air defense project with a budget of 20 billion euros.
American Lockheed Martin and Boeing are also closely interested in the order of 120 aircraft, and the two companies are working to prepare a war plane fitting Turkey’s standards.
regards,
CDTRF
Published: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
zaman.com
European and American companies are battling it out in the competition to secure Turkey’s project to buy 120 aircraft worth 10 billion euros by 2023 to rejuvenate its defense power.
Four European countries, co-manufacturers of Eurofighter, the most developed fourth generation war plane model, are exerting every effort to include Turkey in the consortium.
Officials from the Italian company, Alenia, marketing the plane to Turkey, took the opportunity of Turkish Minister for Industry and Trade Ali Coskun’s visit to Italy to develop commercial cooperation and lobbied on the issue.
The company’s top administrators took Coskun to Torino to promote the manufacturing line, where the minister was treated to a display of Eurofighter aircraft.
The Eurofighter project includes UK, Germany, Spain and Italy is represented by Alenia.
Eurofighters can easily be programmed to conduct air to air attacks to air to land attacks.
The consortium, considering potential countries such as Austria, Saudi Arabia and Norway as customers, want to include Turkey in the manufacturing line, officially communicated its proposal for a manufacturing cooperation to Turkey last month.
If Turkey accepts the proposal, technology from European countries will be transferred and the manufacture of some certain Eurofighter parts will be given the go ahead. The manufacturing line of the aircrafts to be purchased will also be established in Turkey.
Italian Alenia’s CEO Mancusi Giovanni said they want to include Turkey as an indispensable strategic partner in Europe’s biggest air defense project with a budget of 20 billion euros.
American Lockheed Martin and Boeing are also closely interested in the order of 120 aircraft, and the two companies are working to prepare a war plane fitting Turkey’s standards.
regards,
CDTRF