http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=104715
Turkey opens tender to acquire $1 billion in long-range missiles
As the international community and Iran have been continuing their war
of words over Teheran's alleged nuclear enrichment program, neighboring
Turkey has finally opened a tender to acquire four long-range air and
missile defense systems, code named T-Loramids, to meet the requirements
of the Turkish Air Force Command.
The Undersecretariat of the Defense Industry (SSM) released on March 1 a
Request for Information (RfI) to gather administrative, financial and
technical information from relevant companies for planning purposes for
the acquisition of about $1 billion in long-range air and missile
defense systems, said a statement from the SSM on its website. The SSM
will later issue a Request for Proposal (RfP) once it gathers
information from interested companies on the project. Interested
companies should respond to the RfI by May 1.
The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have long been planning to acquire
long-range missiles to strengthen their capabilities in deterring enemy
missiles, including ballistic missiles. Recently, the TSK have become
more anxious to acquire the missiles as Ankara has also increasingly
suspected that Teheran aims to acquire nuclear missiles as opposed to
its claim that its uranium enrichment program is being developed for
nuclear reactors producing energy. US Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, with
a combination of Patriot 2 and Patriot 3 missiles, as well as Russia
with its S-300 missiles, are among the potential bidders for Turkey's
planned purchase of long-range missiles.
Turkish plans to acquire the missiles by 2009 at the latest come at
a time when Ankara declared it would not allow any country to use its
territory for attacks against Iran or any other country. Turkey does not
want to be the target of any neighboring country by allowing its bases
to be used by another country, i.e. the US or Israel, for attacks, said
a Turkish military expert.
Nonetheless, plans to acquire missiles that could deter both
ballistic and conventional missile threats indicate Ankara's increased
anxiety over the proliferation of nuclear missiles, not only in its
immediate environs but also in Asian countries such as India, Pakistan
and North Korea.
Despite earlier insistence by some generals that Russian S-300
missiles could better serve Turkish interests rather than the Patriot
system, as the former would meet the Turkish request of deterring both
ballistic and conventional missile threats, it is now understood that US
Patriot missiles could meet the Turkish requirements too, said the same
military expert.
07.03.2007
Today’s Zaman Ankara
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