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AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. BILAL AKTAS HEAD OF INDUSTRIALIZATION DEPARTMENT AT SSM
VOLUME 7
ISSUE 41
YEAR 2013
ISSN 1306 6004
INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION DAYS
IN DEFENCE & AEROSPACE
6-8 MARCH
THE FIRST MARITIME SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT
WAS DELIVERED TO TURKISH COAST GUARD
OSSA: NEW SYNERGY ON
DEFENCE AND AEROSPACE
SELEX ES: AN ENDURING
RELATIONSHIP WITH TURKEY
NAVIGATING THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF
THE MILITARY LAND VEHICLES MARKET
THE FIRST DECISIONS OF TURKISH DEFENCE INDUSTRY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF 2013 WERE ANNOUNCED
IMPROVING TECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY BASE
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ISSUE: 41
YEAR: 2013
ISSN 1306 6004
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SSM’s Industrialization Department Priorities:
Industrial Depth, Technological Competence
and Export & Logistics Support
OSSA: New Synergy on Defence and
Aerospace
Selex ES: An Enduring Relationship
with Turkey
Navigating the Changing Landscape of
the Military Land Vehicles Market
The Subcontract was Signed for Erciyes C-130
Avionics Modernization Program Link-16 Tactical
Data Link Processor
The First Decisions of Turkish Defence Industry
Executive Committee (SSIK) of 2013 were
Announced
Signature Ceremony of Industry University
Cooperation Agreement for FX/TX Project
Improving Technology Industry Base
Amphenol Connecting Tomorrow and
Technologies
Amphibious Armoured Combat Earthmover Vehicles
(AZMIM) was Delivered to Turkish Armed Forces
TEI to Develop Indigenous Engine for
ANKA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
The First Maritime Surveillance Aircraft was
Delivered to Turkish Coast Guard
The Year’s Innovation Product is from Aselsan
Automated Target Tracking
Turkey Delayed to Order F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter
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Aselsan Participated in the Most
Prestigious Environment Project
Teknokent Defence Industry Cluster: Bridge
between University, Industry and New Markets
Allied Wire & Cable Supplies Military Wire to
Turkish Defence Market
FNSS Certified its Defence Industry Suppliers’
Quality
ANKA Completed Acceptance Tests
Havelsan is Awarded for its
Ship Information Distribution System
Lockheed Martin’s SMSS Unmanned
Autonomous Vehicle Operates Via
Satellite Control
Rolls-Royce Introduces the Future of
Offshore Vessel Command and Control
Indra Completes Development of its
Maritime Patrol Light Aircraft
Cassidian’s New TRS-4D Naval Radar
Demonstrates its Capability
Airbus Military Delivers first
two C295 to Kazakhstan
MTU Maintenance wins contract
to maintain Southwest’s CFM56- engines
Eurofighter Typhoons in Austria complete
5,000 flying hours
Amsafe’s Tarian Rpg Armour System Makes Middle
Eastern Debut At Idex 2013, Abu Dhabi
The Alhd Canberra, Named In Australia
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Ankara Industrial Cooperation Days:
A new synergy between Turkish and Global
Aerospace and Defence Sector
Ayşe Akalın
Publisher & Editor in Chief
In recent years, the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries focused on studies to provide sectorial depth and lead
SMEs and sub-industry companies in order to develop their project management as well as technological capabilities. The
local content ratio, the extent to which requirements are met locally, rose to 54,04% in 2011 and Turkish defence industry
has reached the phase where the groundwork has been laid for system integration capability and defence products can
be developed locally. In the next phase SSM aims to reduce external dependence in critical subsystems/components/
technologies determined in line with the requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces. In order to optimize the resources
allocated to improve the technological infrastructure needed for the systems projects that involve procurement by means
of indigenous local production, and hence increase local content ratio, worthwhile R&D projects have been determined and
prioritized in the Defence R&D Road Map.
In line with this policy, it is obvious that Ankara Industrial Cooperation Days where over 70 foreign companies and
Turkish industrialists will participate and held by OSTIM Defence and Aviation Cluster (OSSA) and BCI with the support
of SSM will provide a new synergy between Global and Turkish Defence Industry Companies. A contact platform will be
established between sector players through this event. The program includes a 2-day program of One to One meetings,
workshops, OEMs procurement and supply chain policies sessions, innovative seminars and key conferences, dealing with
the latest and most crucial topics of the aerospace, and defence sector and offset.
In this issue, we are pleased to share with you the interviews with Mr. Bilal Aktaş, Head of Industrialization Department
at Undersecretariat for Defence Industries; Mr. Mithat Ertuğ, Chairman of the board of OSSA; Mr. Fabrizio Giulianini, CEO
of Selex ES; Mr. Hakan Saraçoğlu,General Manager, Turkey and Middle East at Amphenol, and other company news and
articles.
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SSM’s Industrialization Department
Priorities: Industrial Depth,
Technological Competence and Export
& Logistics Support
Mr.Bilal Aktaş, Head of SSM’s Industrialization Department, informed us about its mission, Industrial
Participation / Offset Management function, Sector Strategic Management, Clustering Activities and
Industrialization Portal for Defence Turkey Readers.
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Defence Turkey: Mr. Aktaş, first
of all we would like to thank you
for your time for this interview. As
known, Turkey has taken significant
steps during the last decade. Could
you please make an evaluation for
us on where we stand now and our
capabilities so far?
SSM is integrative, constructive
and innovative for the design of national
Defence industry. For this pupose, it
commits to provide best solutions by
bringing the forces of stakeholders
together. For the sustainability of the
sector’s acquisitions, it promotes
exportation; gives priority to develop
cooperation with friendly and allied
countries. 2012-2016 Strategic Plan
is part of a holistic approach and
determines the objectives within the
framework of the vision and strategic
objectives. Within the scope of vision
to make Turkey superior in terms of
defence and security technologies,
below are the outstanding topics
related with the defence industry:
›› Program Management Maturity
›› Industry Sustainability
›› Technological Competence
Within the scope of this plan,
the Undersecretariat for Defence
Industries shall focus on studies to
provide sectorial depth and lead SMEs
and sub-industry companies in order
to develop their project management
as well as technological capabilities.
As you know, the implementation of
offset projects has been carried out
for many years by the Undersecretariat
for Defence Industries. Finally, with
the IP/O Directive published in 2011,
companies are required to commit
70% Industrial Participation/Offset in
the contracts to be signed within the
scope of Defence industry projects.
In the proposals to be given in this
respect, the participation of local
industry as well as sub-industry and
SME contribution for the sectorial
depth shall be encouraged.
Defence Turkey: Could you
please inform us about your
missions as the Department of
Industrialization in accordance with
the Strategic Plan?
With the arrangements made
in 2011, three Directorates were
established under the Industrialization
Department namely Aviation and
Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering
and Naval Architecture, Electronic and
Software and they were assigned for the
strategic management of the sectors,
which are under the responsibilities
of sector managers as well as for
the follow-up of IP/O activities. Two
main tasks of the Industrialization
Department are “Industrial Participation/
Offset Management” and “Sector
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Bilal Aktaş, Head
of Industrialization
Department – SSM
gave plaques to
companies at FNSS
supplier certification
ceremony.
Strategic Management”.
Through its first main task, the
Industrialization Department provides
coordination of industrial participation/
offset activities performed within the
scope of projects, establishment of
new policies by taking into account
the developments in this regard,
monitoring of signed IP/O contracts,
preparation of parts related with IP/O
arrangements to be included in RFPs
and contracts as well as the the award
and execution of the contracts.
The tasks of the Department
of Industrialization under “Sector
Strategic Management” topic are as
follows:
›› To coordinate and monitor sector
strategies,
›› To organize symposiums, workshops
and meetings in defence industry field
to provide cooperation and work-share
between sub-industry companies and
industrial organizations,
›› To ensure maximum utilization of local
industry capabilities in SSM projects,
to provide information, orientation
and support to local companies in
this context and to provide necessary
coordination between sub-industry and
SMEs,
›› To
provide
coordination
with
organizations such as SASAD, TOBB,
KOSGEB and etc. for local defence
industry activities,
›› To ensure that relevant studies are made
to prepare Defence Industry Inventory
promoting the capabilities of companies
and establish defence industry product
catalogue in this respect.
In addition to these tasks, the
Department
of
Industrialization
provides the execution of operations
regarding loan agreements and
transfer of funds protocols to be signed
with local companies for purposes of
support in coordination with Finance
and Administration Department and
fulfilment of tax and duty exemption
certificate requests of the companies
performing projects that are of vital
importance for SSM and defence
industry.
please tell us how the Industrial
Participation/Offset Management is
functioning?
With the Industrial Participation
/Offset Management, it is aimed
to contribute to the balance
of
international
payments
by
establishing import/export balance
in
product/service
supply,
to
maintain and develop domestic
industry and to provide top-down
spread of technology. The Industrial
Participation shows the contribution
of domestic companies to the project
whereas Offset shows the return of
expenditures on national economy by
allocating work share to local industry
for foreign public acquisitions and
investments, exporting product or
service, technology acquisition and
making investment. The IP/O liabilities
required for projects conducted by
SSM through 2011 IP/O Directive are
divided into three categories:
Through 2011 IP/O Directive, the
IP/O liability rate required for projects
conducted by SSM was increased
to 70% of the contract price. With
the “Industrial Participation / Offset
Evaluation Formula” amended in 2009,
the importance given to SMEs was
increased. Within this context, through
2011 IP/O Directive, at least 30% of
Category-A (Industrial Participation)
IP/O liability is stipulated to be as SubIndustry/SME Work Share and at least
15% is to be as SME share. For crediting
IP/O activities under Category-A,
the coefficient regarding design and
engineering work performed by SMEs
is determined as 2.
In addition to this, the portions
in the exported products / services
performed by SMEs are credited
by increasing the multiplier of the
corresponding product / service in the
Table of IP/O Multipliers by 1 (one).
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A. LOCAL CONTRIBUTION
Work share performed by the Turkish industry within the
scope of the Project
B. EXPORT
Defence, homeland security, aviation and aerospace
products / sevices export
C. TECHNOLOGICAL
COOPERATION
Foreign Contractor
Technology and capability acquisition
Investment
Domestic Conractor
R&D and training support
inform us on the Sector Strategic
Management?
SSM’s Industrialization Strategy
has been shaped around four
main elements: Industrial Depth,
Technological Competence, Export
and Logistics Support.
The Industrial Depth is the
most important element in terms of
sustainability. Looking at the structure
of the Defence industry in general, it is
seen that the interests of sub-industry
companies and SMEs to defence
industry are increasing day-by-day.
Through 2011 IP/O Directive, the IP/O
share was increased from 50% to
70%, sub-industry and SME shares
were increased to 30% and serious
penalties were introduced. The aim is
to achieve industrial depth.
“Technological
Competence”
means holding the required technology
and
managing
the
technology
processes. Today, the design of subsystems and components that support
the main systems as well as the R&D
activities are being carried out by
our industry, research centres and
universities.
Exportation is an important
element for the defence industry in
maintaining relations with friendly and
allied countries and creating mutual
dependency. As known, the most
important element in defence export
is to implement an active foreign
policy, make the country a brand and
have a product to sell. Looking at the
recent period, we see an increase
in system exports in parallel with all
related elements that began to evolve;
significant demands are received
even for systems that are under test
phases. One of the most critical
issues in the projects conducted as
per the required costs, schedule and
technical requirements is to create
cost-effective supportability within
the life cycle starting from design
phase, based on “Supply Logistics”
approach. The objective here is to
ensure the utilization of systems by
TAF in cost-effective manner and to
generate an economic volume for our
industry in terms of logistics support.
The foundation of an effective logistics
support infrastructure is again a
defence industry having technological
competence and deepness.
Defence Turkey: What are the
responsibilities of the Department
of Industrialization within the
scope of 2012-2016 Strategic Plan
Document?
The domestic rate in meeting
defence equipment needs of the
Turkish Armed Forces was 54% as
of 2011 year end whereas the target
was 50%. In addition, the defence
industry turnover target for 2016 is
US $ 8 billion and export target is
US $ 2 billion. Within this context,
the primary task of the Department
of Industrialization is to coordinate
and monitor sector strategies. In this
respect, our department has been
conducting execution and updating
studies referenced under the scope of
2012-2016 Strategic Plan Document
and 2009-2016 Defence Industry
Sectorial Strategy Document.
As per the objectives within the
frame of the Strategic Plan as “To
develop measures to increase the
effectiveness of the defence and
security sector” and “To increase the
local procurement ratio via creating
supply chains spread over tiers”,
the Department of Industrialization
undertakes several tasks.
Mr. Bilal Aktaş,
Head of SSM’s
Industrialization
Department,
Chairman of the
Board for OSTIM
Orhan Aydın, Mr.
Mithat Ertuğ,
Chairman of the
Board OSSA
The project planned as per the
“Development of measures to increase
the effectiveness of the defence and
security sector” target is a “sectorial
analysis and restructuring” study where
all public institutions and organizations
taking part in the defence industry
– primarily the MKEK and TSKGV
companies - are to be discussed in
details. As per “Increasing the local
procurement ratio via creating supply
chains spread over tiers” target, the aim
is to establish main and sub-industry
portal for updating and servicing
Defence Industry Capability Inventory.
By this way, the list of potential local
sub-contractors can be obtained.
The activities planned within our
Department for 2009-2016 are to
update Sectorial Strategy Document,
continue Defence Industry 25 Analysis
Study in the following years and to give
awards in different categories, to inform
public institutions on the capabilities
obtained through the projects carried
out by our Undersecretariat, to organize
workshops by making researches on
parallel sectors’ infrastructure and
technological capacities, to organize
Offset Information Workshops for
local companies to benefit from IP/O
opportunities properly and regularly, to
establish Product Development Loan
mechanism for the development of
product portfolio of Turkish defence
industry in main and sub-system
levels and for the development of
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infrastructures in this respect (test,
qualification, quality systems, etc.),
to include “Potential Domestic SubContractor List” in RFPs for the target
technology / sub-system areas and to
monitor and support local passenger
aircraft development activities.
communications with other public
institutions and organizations?
We have been organizing meetings
with the Ministry of Energy and Natural
Resources, Prime Ministry Investment
Agency, Ministry of Health, the Ministry
of Science, Industry and Technology,
Ministry of Economic Affairs and the
Ministry of Education to inform them
on Industrial Participation / Offset.
One of the responsibilities of the
Department of Industrialization is to
organize symposiums, workshops
and meetings in defence industry field
to provide cooperation between subindustry companies and industrial
organizations. These activities aim to
inform and guide local companies, and
by providing all the necessary support
and encouragement to develop the
necessary
coordination
between
industry and SMEs.
Through the Defence Industries
Presentation Days organized in this
respect, our Undersecretariat reviews
the capabilities and competences of
potential companies in country wide
and makes visits accordingly. So far,
the companies reviewed are from
Tokat, Yozgat, Sivas, Rize, Denizli
and Çorum. During these visits, the
capabilities of such companies were
assessed and reviewed.
please make brief descriptions on
these visits?
Yozgat-Sivas 13-14
September 2011
On 13-14 September 2011, a study
visit was made to Yozgat and Sivas to
disseminate and distribute works to the
surrounding regions. In Yozgat, Garanti
Giyim, Coşkunlar Karoser, Erensan
companies were reviewed. In Sivas,
Anadolu Tıp, PACO, Gökçeler Makina,
Estaş, Nitrocare Yatak, Tüdemsaş
companies were reviewed.
Tokat 20 – 21 December
2011 and 18 May 2012
During evaluation and planning
meetings held on 20 – 21 December
2011 and 18 May 2012, Ayyıldız Tarım
Makineleri, Kaf Su Armatürleri, Şener,
Endüstri Grubu, Fener Makine, Özgel
Makine, Almanyalı Yedek Parça ve
Makine İmalat, AFF Çalışkan Makine
companies were visited.
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Rize 1-2 April 2012
During the meetings held on
1-2 April 2012, Yazsan Makina, ErEm Makina, Metal Teknik ve Asilsan
Denizli 28 May 2012
During the Defence Industry
Presentation Day held on May 28 2012,
Ar Döküm, Ozan Tekstil ve Erbakır
Çorum 21 June 2012
Within the scope of the review for
industrial participation made on June
21 2012, Çağıl Makine, Uğur Makine,
Yetsan Oto Kalorifer ve Radyatör,
Duduoğlu Makine, Yağmaksan Yağlılar
Makine, Erdemli Makine ve Taç Makine
İzmir and Bursa
During the study visit made in Bursa
on 11-12-13 April 2012 by SASAD,
Ermeksan and Yepsan companies;
during the study visit made in İzmir
on 27-28 September 2012 by SASAD
Torma, Tecfyl, Eko Endüstri, İZELTAŞ,
Dirinler, BSS Boray, Tepaş Elektrik
Defence Turkey:
Could you
Clustering activities?
Clustering is defined as the
regional concentration of competing,
complementary and interconnected
companies and institutions. Clustering
approach is considered to be a suitable
model for the development of the
Defence industry. For the development
and coordination of Defence Industry
as well as establishing clusters and
specialized sub-industry; clusters are
started to be established in Ankara and
other regions of our country.
Clusters which are actively working
are OSTIM Defence and Aerospace
(OSSA), Izmir ESBAŞ Aerospace
(HUKD), Teknokent Defence Industry
Platform
(TSSP)
and
Eskisehir
Aerospace. Tuzla Shipping and
Ankara Kazan Clusters are under the
establishment phase.
Defence Turkey: Lately we have
heard the term “Industrialization
Portal”. Could you give us some
information on this portal?
In 2012-2016 Strategic Plan, the
key element is “Sustainability” and two
most important sub-elements are the
“Industrial Depth” and “Technological
Competence”. The Defence Industry
Portal has been established to support
these two elements. With the data
obtained from this portal which will
enable the awareness of the companies
performing activities in defence
industry with each other, increase
communications between them and
allow the companies that would like to
perform activities in defence industry
to promote themselves, a database
regarding Defence Industry Companies
shall be established which is to be
updated continuously. Such data shall
be the basis for Capability Inventory
and Potential Local Subcontractor
List, which are foreseen in 2012-2016
Strategic Plan.
In
addition,
the
companies
performing activities or want to perform
activities in the projects carried out
by the Undersecretariat of Defence
Industries are required to login to
Portal as per IP/O 2011 Directive.
Within this context, the method
to be followed for Industrialization
Portal membership is apply for a new
membership at http://sanayilesme.
ssm.gov.tr.
please brief us on the volume of the
Turkish defence sector?
The production in Turkish Defence
Industry increased 25% in 2011
compared to 2010 figures and US$ 4.4
billion turnover was reached.
The Defence and Aerospace
exportation activities increased 29%
in 2011 compared to 2010 figures and
reached US$ 1.09 billion. The defence
industry export target anticipated for
2016 within the scope of the Strategic
Plan is US$ 2 billion.
The total number of employees
in the sector was 23.695 in 2010 and
reached at 24.160 in 2011.
Mr. Bilal Aktaş,
Head of SSM’s
Industrialization
Department,
Ms. Ayşe Akalın,
Publisher of
Defence Turkey
Magazine
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OSSA: New Synergy on Defence and
Aerospace
An Assessment by Mr. Mithat Ertuğ, Chairman of the Board,
OSSA
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The
Defence
and
Aviation
Clustering idea at Ostim has actually
emerged after the study made with
the International Competitiveness
Research Institute (URAK) in 2007
to perceive that Ostim Organized
Industrial Zone (Ostim OSB) is
competitive at which sector and to
what extent.This analysis has shown
that Ostimincorporates sub-industry
which is needed by defence and
aviation industry in terms of machining,
sheet forming, surface treating, electro
mechanics, composite and cabling.
The companies currently performing
activities in these fields were delivering
services to main industry companies
located at Ankara. For this reason, we
can say that a natural clustering was
available at Ostim.
Today’s conditions and especially
the conditions of defence and aviation
industry have pushed us to be more
strengthened together. For this reason,
Ostim OSB, with the companies from all
over Ankara and making the majority of
their turnovers from activities delivering
to defence and aviation industry, is a
sound initiative which is supported
by organizations and enterprises
such as the Undersecretariat for
Defence Industries (SSM), Ministry
of Economy, Ankara Chamber of
Industry, SaSaD, KOSGEB, Metutech
and THK University. Our main objective
under this umbrella is to propose
local solutions to main integrators
performing in defence and aviation
industry as well as to make all efforts
to increase the exportation of the
SMEs in defence and aviation industry.
We have realized and will continue to
realize so many activities in this respect
and some of which are to visit main
industry companies of our country
and introduce our companies to them;
to increase the business volumes
of the companies and to provide
new opportunities to the companies
that are not previously performing
activities in this field. Besides our
promotion activities are continuing
and we are supporting the companies
to participate at international fairs
and
make
business
meetings
within the scope of International
Competitiveness
Enhancement
Project of the Ministry of Economy. We
are redirecting the demands which we
received to cluster companies and we
are bringing procurement authorities
from foreign countries to Turkey. We
are handling the training, consultancy
and certification problems of the
companies and working for them to go
further in defence and aviation sector.
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There are currently 107 member
companies with over 2600 personnel
under OSSA and we have the highest
number of engineers amongst other
Ostim clusters. We have several
criteria for company applications or
selections since the sector requires
high engineering, low tolerance and
high sensitivity. It is required that
such company is currently working
with a main industry company such
as Aselsan, TAI, Roketsan, FNSS or
is an approved supplier of them. The
applicant should be a manufacturing
company or delivering services to the
sector in R&D, engineering and design
fields. There are no criteria on company
volume because especially at SME
level, the capability cannot be assessed
through volume or turnover. The
applicants become OSSA members
after the approval of the Board. This is
critical for us since OSSA has become
a brand in defence and aviation subindustry and we always have to
keep the high level of quality. There
are companies performing in many
fields from machining, sheet forming,
surface treating, cabling to software
and engineering. This diversification
provides us higher capacity and
capability and strengthens us for
the promotion of Turkish Defence
and Aviation sub-industry in foreign
countries.
We have enjoyed the clustering
incentives under the International
Competitiveness
Development
Projectof Ministry of Economy.
Currently at Ostim, 4 foreign trade
projects are being carried out; two of
which are under Machine and Machine
Equipment Cluster, one is under
Medical Cluster and the other is under
Defence and Aviation Cluster. Only
at OSSA, 24 companies have been
benefiting from a budget amounting
to 1.105.000 TL under the scope of
this Project. Besides, the Ministry of
Industry will initiate a new incentive
program for clusters in the near future.
We have exchanged views on such
program with the Ministry officials.
Some of the companies under
OSSA are currently performing export
activities to many countries. However,
a few of them have end-products due
to the nature as well as challenges of
this sector; therefore we cannot say
their international competitiveness
levels are that satisfactory. But
when we consider that the global
companies have component-based
productions made in countries like
Romania and Poland in European
region, we confidently know that OSSA
companies are making productions
just as in high quality and standards
of such countries. For this reason,
OSSA will become competitive at
international arena in the near future.
OSSA made great efforts for
strengthening
its
international
activitiesespecially during the last
one year. We presented in details the
Turkish defence industry and OSSA in
many international fairs and workshops
and received satisfactory returns.
Foreign
procurement
authorities
became aware of the sub-industry level
in Turkey and the foreign demands
that we received so far are the good
examples for this. We can improve our
exportation in three ways on the basis
of SMEs. The most significant of them
is “offset”, which is also highlighted
persistently by the Undersecretariat
for Defence Industries. We accept it as
a prerequisite and the vision of SSM
and especially the Undersecretary
Murad Bayar gives us hope. As a
matter of fact, such studies are being
disseminated to other institutions and
organizations. The other way is the
promotion of sub-industry to be made
by main industry companies at their
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support the actions to deepen the
Turkish defence industry and a subsupplier to key industry companies like
TAI, Aselsan,Roketsan,FNSS,Thales,Ai
rbus,Boeing,Sikorsky etc.
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OSSA Products/services offered
foreign activities. The SMEs in defence
industry maintain their existence
together with main industry companies
and we are proud to be under their
umbrellas at foreign activities.Finally
the importance of localization. TAF
performs this activity every year and
I believe it is really beneficial. I hope
the efforts of our main industry on
this continue to increase gradually.
If we localize the components, the
importation is reduced and thus
enables business and employment
opportunities for local companies.
In view of the above, we, as OSSA,
will be hosting Ankara Defence and
Aviation Industrial Cooperation Days
bilateral meetings on 6-8 March 2013
under the auspices of SSM. This event,
which is to be held by the participation
of 200 companies from 20 countries,
attracts great attention worldwide.
Our main industry together with subindustry will have opportunities to make
bilateral meetings with the world’s
giants. With in-advance appointments
to be made over internet, I believe
this event will be the most businessfocused and efficient organization of
the sector.
We can sincerely say that becoming
members to OSSA is meaningful and
important for sub-industry companies
performing activities at this sector,
since we are in active communications
with the main industry companies as
well as SSM and we are able to reach
everyone at all times through our webbased cluster management program.
We are able to communicate the
problems as well as the solutions of
our member companies and open new
doors by matching the demands of
main industry and those coming from
foreign countries with our companies.
We are able to prepare projects
thanks to our close relations with
universities and enable the companies
to make R&D studies by redirecting
academicians to them. Briefly, together
we could manage lot that a single
company could not manage.
We produce for defence and
aviation all together.
OSSA Defence and Aviation Cluster
OSSA Defence and Aviation
Cluster has shaped right after the
competetiveness analysis which is
implemented within the Ankara OSTIM
Organized Industrial Region. The
results have pushed these small and
medium enterprises to act together
and form the defence and aviation
cluster which is almost inevitable in
nature of these sectors. Cluster has
established in 1 July 2008 and mostly
involves companies in and around
the Organized Industrial Region
geographically. OSSA is conducting
its activities more efficient with
107 members and more than 2600
personnel in order to increase the
share of domestic production and
With support of and cooperation
with the Undersecteriat of Defense
Industry, KOSGEB, TTGV, Ankara
Chamber of Industry, TÜBİTAK,
SASAD, ODEM, OSTIM, Metutech
and THK University, OSSA, does
manifacturing and final products
below:
R&D design, Machining, Molding/
Casting,
Surface
Improvement,
Heat
treatment,
Plastic-Rubber,
Sheet- Metal forming, Composite,
Automation, Electronic card, Welding,
Harness, Electromechanics, Machine
tool Manifacturing, Electrical Panels,
Airconditioning/Ventilation,
Special
Flexible Hoses, Spare parts, Ground
Support Equipments, Optical systems,
System cabinets, UAVs. What we are looking for
We are ready to cooperate with
SME’s and OEM’s and also other
clusters around the world to improve
our companies capabilities and
businesses. We target to increase
the share of domestic production in
the fulfilment of the needs of defence
and aviation industry and to render
the firms in the cluster competetive
on international market and also
to become preferred sub-suppliers
with increased cooperation and
developed capabilities. Cooperating
with the universities and organized
industrial region by technology
transfer to SMEs, and focusing on
regional competetive advantages on a
specialized sector to create competitive
advantage against competitors with
skill development in sub-suppliers in
defence and aerospace industries.
Mr. Mithat
Ertuğ,
Chairman of
the Board
OSSA; Ms.
Ayşe Akalın,
Publisher of
Defence Turkey
Magazine
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Selex ES: An Enduring Relationship
with Turkey
The New Defence Electronics Champion will Build on a Strong
Heritage
Mr. Fabrizio Giulianini, CEO of Selex, ES, assessed new structure of Selex ES, long terms plan for Turkey,
activities in Turkey, ongoing UAV programmes, its role on Typhoon programmes and future plans of Selex
ES for Defence Turkey readers.
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Defence Turkey: Finmeccanica
has decided to integrate its defence
electronics business with the
creation of the new “Selex ES”
company. Could you please explain
who Selex ES is? And what it does?
Selex ES became operational on
the 1st of January 2013 following the
integration of Selex Galileo, Selex
Elsag and Selex Sistemi Integrati.
The new Company name, “Selex ES”,
celebrates the formation of a stronger
entity with a proud legacy and a great
future ahead. Keeping the name
‘Selex’ indicates that we have joined
forces and that together we have the
size, the technology, the experience
and the critical mass to grow and
further develop. The “ES” identifies the
core business of the new company:
Electronics Systems.
Selex ES is a global business, with
a workforce of approximately 17,900,
revenues in excess of 3.5 Billion Euros,
main operations in Italy and the UK
and a strong industrial and commercial
footprint in the US, Germany, Turkey,
Romania, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and
India. Selex ES will develop and
increase its market share in domestic
and priority countries by providing its
unique expertise and technologies
in the air, land, sea, security and civil
domains. The organisation of the
company reflects this position through
the creation of three main divisions,
each focused on a specific market
and customer. Our job is to make the
end user aware that we work for him
and that we have that base of insight
and expertise that can allow us to
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advise him on the opportunities and
challenges he faces”.
Defence Turkey: Selex ES
has three different divisions as
mentioned, could you please
describe them?
The
Airborne
and
Space
Systems
division
includes
all
airborne capabilities, technologies
and products ranging from UAS
and integrated mission systems to
radar, electronic warfare equipment,
avionics, simulation systems, target
drones and space sensors, payloads
and equipment. The Land and
Naval Systems division comprises
capabilities in the land and naval
domains from the design of complex
system architectures to tactical
integrated systems, naval combat
management systems, land and
naval radar and situational awareness
sensors and military communications
infrastructures. The Security and
Smart Systems division mainly covers
network infrastructure and systems
SATCAS 2000 is the
latest generation of
SELEX ES. It comes with
a full range of modular
and integrated products
that comply with any
Air Traffic Management
operational requirement.
System design
supports a strategic
approach that avoids
bottlenecks providing
full modularity.
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architecture capabilities for homeland
protection and the complex urban
environment as well as air and vessel
traffic management.
The three divisions will be supported
by an operations/engineering function
led by a Chief Operating Officer that
has been organised by capability/
technology and will supply the
divisions with engineering and supply
chain services and a number of staff
functions.
Defence Turkey: Why did you
decide to integrate with the different
companies?
This integration is part of the
restructuring plan launched by our
parent company Finmeccanica last
year; the intention is to consolidate
the breadth of competencies and
technologies in the group’s defence
electronics sector. It has been built
focusing on the customer, funnelling
our resources and investments to
respond quickly to rapidly changing
scenarios. With Selex ES we can
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The ARIEL family of
Fibre Optic Towed
RF Decoys, variants
of which have
been in service
with the Royal Air
Force since 1990,
provide an effective
off-board electronic
countermeasure
against all modern
RF guided weapons,
including those
employing error
cancelling monopulse
tracking techniques.
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bring to bear an integrated set of
technologies for protection, security,
cybersecurity, smart cities etc.
Defence Turkey: How do you
work with local Turkish industries,
at a glance?
The defence industry in Turkey
is strong and has many similarities
with ours. We are keen to develop
our presence in-country through
partnerships
and
collaborations,
not only to respond to internal
requirements but also to jointly work
on export opportunities. We already
have a local company, now called
Selex ES Elektronik Turkey S.A. that
assembles printed circuit boards
and produces soldered electrical and
electronic assemblies for airborne and
naval platforms.
Defence Turkey: How does
Selex ES intend to establish
local companies or joint venture
agreements? Could
you please
explain us?
We are very keen to work through
Turkish Industry, primarily Foundation
Companies, to be successful in Turkish
domestic programmes. By offering
products, services or capabilities that
are unique, we can truly improve the
Foundation Companies’ capabilities.
At the same time, we must identify
products, services or capabilities that
Turkish Industry has that we can jointly
offer at a national and international
level. The emergence of small to
medium-sized domestic companies
in the Turkish defence market is
providing further opportunities for local
collaboration that will turn into long
term relationships as these companies
grow.
Defence Turkey: In the field of
UAS, Turkey has made different
agreements to set up its own
capability. Is there also space for
Selex ES?
Selex ES has developed a
successful Tactical UAV, the Falco,
which is in operation with four
international customers and we are
currently test flying a new version,
the Falco EVO, which features greater
autonomy and an increased payload.
We have an in-depth understanding of
unmanned systems from the platform
itself to their sensors and mission
systems. Our AESA and M-Scan radar
have been selected to equip several
unmanned
platforms
worldwide
and we are developing a mission
system that is independent from the
platform. We know how keen Turkey
is to develop an indigenous capability
in this field and are also aware of the
exciting results that the local industry
has in the sector. There could be areas
of cooperation in radar and electronic
warfare sensors or in mission system
development and we would welcome
opportunities to work together in this
continuously expanding market.
Defence Turkey: Are there any
other areas you would consider of
interest for our country?
The more reliant that countries
become on technology, the more
their national security will depend
on a stable, protected information
network. Securing and safeguarding
cyberspace is an area where I believe
Selex ES can offer our knowledge and
experience. In February 2012 we were
awarded, with Northrop Grumman, a
contract to establish a NATO Computer
Incident Response Capability that will
provide the capability to detect and
respond to cyber security threats and
vulnerabilities rapidly and effectively.
Selex ES also has extensive
experience in Air Traffic Management
and in the development of integrated
airport systems such as at New Doha
International Airport that sets a new
standard in airport efficiency. We have
radars in close to 150 countries and I
believe that this is an area of potential
interest in your country.”
Defence Turkey:
Could you
please synthesise your presence in
country now that you have a single
interface? Can you distinguish
the heritage of the three different
companies?
Selex ES, in its constituent parts,
has been in Turkey for over 30 years,
mostly in the naval and airborne
domains, but also in air and vessel
traffic control. The three companies
now part of Selex ES (Selex Galileo,
Selex Elsag and Selex Sistemi
Integrati) have all had significant
opportunities in your country and now
we can streamline our activities and
our effort. Let’s start by summarizing
the successful work carried out by
Selex Elektronik (previously called
Selex Komünikasyon), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Selex ES.
Selex Elektronik Turkey has been
operating in Turkey since 1989. The
company employs around 60 highlyskilled personnel and supplies circuit
boards and soldered components to
most defence contractors in Turkey as
well as abroad. In the nineties, Selex
Elektronik manufactured and delivered
thousands of secure HF radios for
the Turkish Armed Forces; today, it is
an important global supplier, having
extended its range of products and
system solutions for land, naval and
air applications. Within the Turkish
GENESİS programme, the internal
communication systems of the Turkish
Navy’s Frigates are being modernised
by Selex Elektronik Turkey.
Selex ES is one of the suppliers of
message handling systems for military
messaging applications. Systems have
been supplied for the Turkish Navy’s
Shore Station modernization project
and for the New Type Patrol Boats
project. In addition, Selex ES is one of
the major subcontractors of Aselsan.
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Several others NATO Programs have
been implemented by Selex ES such
as TFA (CZCS), TSTA (CZCS), BRASS,
TASMO, ADCAP, Izmir NATO MWHQ
etc..
Sirio Panel, a subsidiary of Selex
ES was awarded, in 2005, a contract
by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)
in support of the Airbus A400M lighting
system. In order to comply with the
offset requirements and introduce
technology and capability in Turkey,
Selex ES is acting as Prime Contractor
and Sirio Panel, a subsidiary of Selex
ES, is acting as subcontractor and
technology supplier. As positive result
of this partnership, and technology
insertion in the country, TAI awarded
two additional contracts to Selex ES.
The first in support of the lighting
system of the Turkish Air Force C-130
and the second in support of the
cockpit and lighting system of the
Hurkus basic trainer.
Selex ES has also been awarded a
contract issued by the Central Finance
and Contracts Unit (CFCU) to enhance
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the technical and operational capacity
of Turkish Coastal Radio.
Selex ES offers solutions for
emergency communications based
on TETRA, GSM-R, ATC and Wide
Area Network technologies. In 2007,
the first Selex Elektronik turnkey
TETRA system was installed on the
Edirnekapı-Sultançiftliği train line as
part of the Istanbul Light Rail System.
Selex Sistemi Integrati, another
component of Selex ES, has also
been a technological partner in Turkey
for more than 30 years now, both in
defence and civil domains. In defence
electronics, Selex ES delivered eight air
defence radar systems including seven
RAT31DL and a RAT31S systems
which have been integrated within the
NATO NADGE network.
Selex ES’s civil systems have been
particularly successful in the country
since the second half of the seventies.
In the air traffic control domain, most
of Turkey’s national radar surveillance
network and air traffic planning and
control infrastructure (seven control
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centres and around 20 radio stations)
were supplied by Selex ES. Indeed,
collaboration in this area dates back to
1974 when the company provided the
first air traffic control systems for the
airports at Istanbul and Ankara.
More recently (2006), Selex ES
was awarded a contract by the Turkish
Aviation Authority to fully upgrade and
enhance all of the country’s air traffic
control centres, under the SMART
(Systematic Modernization of ATM
Resources in Turkey) programme.
The contract included the supply of
a national system based in Ankara to
manage the entire Turkish air space as
well as incoming traffic control centres
to be installed at the airports in Istanbul,
Izmir, Antalya, Dalaman and Bodrum.
The systems supplied by Selex ES are
also able to support disaster recovery
by enabling air traffic control to be
transferred from the national centre in
Ankara to the centres in Istanbul and
Izmir, thereby making them effective
backup centres.
In 2010, Selex ES was awarded
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a contract to deliver a VTMS (Vessel
Traffic Management System) system
for the management and control of
maritime traffic. The system comprises
a national centre based in Ankara,
three regional centres in the coastal
areas of Izmir, Izmit and Mersin and
24 remote sites connected with the
national and regional centres. The
contract is currently underway.
Finally, Selex ES is currently
involved in the Turkish Navy’s Landing
Ship Tank (LST) programme. Here the
requirement is for two SASS (Silent
Acquisition Search and Surveillance)
systems to be installed on two new
vessels. Each SASS features our
successful Electro Optical and Infrared
Search and Track technology; the
system passively scans the area and
tracks contacts that are detected. It
enables operators to perform visual
panoramic surveillance around the
platform on which the system is fitted
and track low-elevation air and surface
threats by their infrared (IR) signature,
thus providing an important adjunct
to radar in situations where radar
performance may be degraded or an
alternative where electromagnetic
discretion is required.
Selex ES’s product portfolio
provides
state-of-the-art
avionic
solutions for all types of fixed and
rotary wing platforms thanks to the
architectural flexibility built into every
single product from the design phase
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onwards. Turkey has a number of
aircraft programmes, fixed and rotary
wing. Currently, we are discussing
with Turkey’s industrial leaders such
as TAI, Aselsan and Havelsan how we
might develop the equipment/systems
on board several platforms which
will need enhanced avionics to cope
with the next decade of operational
capability requirements.
Defence Turkey: Turkey will be
acquiring the Joint Strike Fighter, but
there is still the possibility that they
could also choose the Eurofighter
Typhoon. What is Selex ES role in
the Typhoon programme?
Selex ES is a key player in the
Eurofighter Typhoon programme. We
lead several international consortia to
deliver some of the Typhoon’s most
critical systems.
Finmeccanica’s
electronic defence and communication
share in the programme is in excess
of 60% and Selex ES contributes the
dominant part of this.
Specifically,
we
lead
the
EuroRADAR
consortium
which
supplies the “Captor-M” radar, the
primary sensor of the Typhoon, as well
as the EuroFIRST consortium which
delivers the advanced “Pirate” InfraRed
Search and Track (IRST) sensor. To
provide the highest level of protection
to the pilots and the platform, we also
lead the EuroDASS consortium which
supplies the “Praetorian” Defensive
Aids Sub System (DASS). The success
of the Captor-M, Pirate and Praetorian
and the trust pilots place in them was
recently highlighted when the four
Typhoon partner nations awarded
Tranche 3A contracts that stipulated
the inclusion of each of these products.
Mr. Fabrizio
Giulianini, CEO
of Selex ES met
with Ms. Ayşe
Akalın, Publisher
of Defence
Turkey Magazine
in Selex ES
facilities.
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Navigating the Changing Landscape of
the Military Land Vehicles Market
Mahendran Arjunraja, Senior Research Analyst—Aerospace, Defence & Security
The global military land vehicles
market is undergoing a transition. The
impact of the economic downturn
on defence expenditure in traditional
markets is no surprise. Many countries
have been forced to curtail their
defence spending and, as a result,
vehicle programs in the West are
being delayed or facing reduction in
procurement numbers. Countries are
now focusing on having a lean and agile
force that enables rapid deployment.
This significant change in military
doctrine is influencing the land vehicles
market. The experience gained from
recent operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq has led military end users to rethink
future vehicle requirements. However,
most countries need to replace their
aging fleet of Cold War-era vehicles or
upgrade them so they are suitable for
modern-day operations.
In light of these factors, we expect
a significant transition in the military
land vehicles market over the next
decade. Although notable land vehicle
modernization programs are under
development and even deployment
(as seen in the figure below), Frost &
Sullivan is cautious about the future
outlook. With traditional Western
defence markets experiencing budget
reductions, industry players are facing
an even higher level of uncertainty.
For land vehicle suppliers, identifying
ongoing trends and adapting to the
change is crucial for future success.
AV-8 Armoured Wheeled Vehicle - Malaysia
Figure 1: Military Land Vehicles Market: Vehicle Modernization Outlook
What is Changing and What
is Driving this Change?
Declining Procurement Numbers
After a costly decade of war,
Western governments have understood
the economics of operating a lean
military force. Downsizing existing
armed forces, replacing Cold Warera equipment and investing in new
technologies are high priorities in the
new defence strategy. In the United
States, the Department of Defence
(DoD) plans to cut the Army by 80,000
soldiers and the Marine Corps by
20,000 soldiers (some estimates even
indicate a concerning 40,000). The
projected defence spending cut in the
next 10 years will be to the tune of $480
billion. Industry experts speculate there
could be additional defence cutbacks,
and Frost & Sullivan estimates this
could be as much as $500 billion in the
next 10 years.
Things are not very different
in Europe. The United Kingdom,
which played a crucial role in Iraq
and Afghanistan operations, faced a
defence budget deficit to the tune of
$60 billion, leading to an aggressive
Strategic Defence and Security Review
(SDSR) to tackle this looming issue.
The review recommended reduction of
heavy armored vehicles. The existing
inventory of Challenger main battle
tanks will be reduced by 40 percent. In
France, legacy vehicles like the AMX10RC, VAB, ERC-90 are to be replaced
by new VBMR and EBRC vehicles.
Getting rid of legacy equipment is
common in Europe and the United
States, which is good for the industry.
But the real challenge is in the form
of reduced procurement numbers.
The total active vehicles in 2012 are
estimated to be 408,639 units, and
this would increase just marginally to
418,109 units by the end of 2021.
Frost & Sullivan analysis shows
that new vehicle procurement numbers
in the future will decline in traditional
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Western defence markets, though
procurement numbers will increase
in emerging markets in APAC and
the Middle East. For suppliers, this
means less opportunity to benefit from
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economies of scale. Suppliers can no
longer rely on one country and will be
forced to focus on multiple markets
to remain profitable. End users are
changing their focus to quality rather
than quantity and place emphasis on
low-cost, high-quality equipment.
Striking a balance between both and
offering an apt solution is the real
challenge for suppliers.
Figure 2: Military Land Vehicles Market: Procurement Units Comparison, Global, 2012 and 2021
Possible Future Conflicts and
Urgent Operational Requirements
After an expensive decade of
military operations, the U.S. and
Europe will not be able to afford
another major ground-based operation
in this decade. The majority of conflicts
in the foreseeable future are expected
to be in the APAC and Middle East
regions. Most conflicts in APAC will
potentially involve China as a major
participant. Due to the maritime
nature of the conflicts, ground-based
operations will be minimal in APAC. In
the previous decade, vehicle suppliers
enjoyed benefits in the form of urgent
operational requirements (UORs).
Due to a lack of significant ground
operations, opportunities under UORs
will be minimal. Suppliers need to focus
on and drive planned procurement
programs by proactively identifying
end-user needs and offering solutions.
Emphasis on Vehicle Modularity
End users are clearly inclined
toward modular platforms, as they
offer more benefits than conventional
vehicles. Similarity in components
reduces the vehicle life cycle cost
and also enables a lean supply chain.
Having a fleet of modular vehicles
means that the end user can use a
single vehicle for different applications
by just modifying (and configuring)
specific components based on the
requirement. This flexibility increases
the popularity of modular vehicles.
Frost & Sullivan expects the preference
for modular vehicles to be high in the
future.
Alignment with Soldier Programs
and Increased Digitization
Interoperability with other battlefield
systems is a top priority. Most nations
have ongoing or upcoming soldier
modernization
programs.
Large
amounts of electronics are becoming a
part of standard soldier equipment. The
new vehicle must be able to support the
modernized soldier in terms of troop
transport capability, infrastructure to
provide recharging for electronics, and
similarity in battlefield management
systems. The emphasis on networkcentric warfare increases the need for
vehicle electronics. Demand for more
efficient vehicle electronic components
is expected to increase significantly in
the future.
Asymmetric Warfare and
Increasing Operational Pressures
Drive a New Breed of Vehicles
The changing nature of warfare
and ever-increasing cost of military
operations
are
forcing
military
planners to rethink their future vehicle
capabilities. Most stakeholders agree
that future military operations will be
asymmetric and forces will have to
operate in urban environments. Hence,
future vehicles must have attributes
enabling them to operate in urban
environments with protection against
contemporary threats in a costefficient way.
Mobility, modularity, protection,
compatibility with other battlefield
elements and efficiency are key
attributes. End users are placing more
emphasis on energy-efficient and
easy-to-transport vehicles. The need
for agile vehicles will boost demand for
lightweight and hybrid vehicles.
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Figure 3
What Does this Mean
to the Suppliers?
Slow Growth, Heavy Cost Burdens
and Reducing Margins
Frost & Sullivan research indicates
that the global military land vehicles
market is expected to witness a slow
growth at a CAGR of 0.7 percent
during the forecast period. The reason
Figure 4
for the slowdown in the short term is
mainly due to the market decline in the
Western defence markets. Currently,
the global military land vehicle market is
being dominated by the United States.
However, there are serious concerns
about defence budget cuts and
program reforms. It is expected that
major vehicle programs in the U.S. will
face cuts, and a decline of 1.5 percent
is expected during the forecast period.
The market is expected to regain
growth momentum in the medium term
as programs in APAC and the Middle
East reach the procurement phase. In
the Western markets, opportunities
will continue to exist, but in the form of
upgrades and capability sustainment.
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There is an increasing emphasis
on quality over quantity. Dwindling
procurement numbers will pressurize
the industry, as suppliers will find
it hard to generate economies of
scale. Lack of funding is a major
restraint. The prototype development
cost, which was earlier shared by
government and industry, has now
largely been passed on to the supplier.
In light of all these factors, offering a
cost-efficient solution will be a major
challenge for the suppliers. While the
MoDs are placing strong emphasis
on reducing system acquisition and
sustainment costs, commercial off the
shelf (COTS) is a way to realize costsavings. Commercial suppliers can
leverage this opportunity to promote
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their solutions in the military domain.
Over the past few years, the use of
commercial off the shelf products has
gradually increased and will encourage
further commercial suppliers to offer
military solutions.
Conclusion and Recommendations
The global military land vehicles
market has, without doubt, been
adversely affected by the economic
downturn. Uncertainty over the
future may further impact vehicle
modernization programs. Yet, Frost
& Sullivan expects the market to be
stable until 2021. Driven by economic
growth and a strong need to replace
legacy equipment, most APAC nations
are expected to invest in vehicle
programs. APAC will be the key engine
for growth in the mid and long term.
Frost & Sullivan analysis recommends
that suppliers identify countries with a
need to modernize and with budgets
to implement it.
Regarding the U.S. and Europe,
although MoDs will continue to
downsize their forces and will procure
fewer vehicles in the future, there is
and will continue to be a need to invest
in sustaining existing capabilities.
Countries in APAC and Middle
East are expected to boost vehicle
procurement volumes significantly over
the next decade and offer suppliers the
opportunity to make up for reduced
spend in the U.S. and Europe.
The Subcontract was Signed for
Erciyes C-130 Avionics Modernization
Program Link-16 Tactical Data Link
Processor
The subcontract was signed
between TAI and Milsoft on 16
December 2012 at TAI facilities for
Erciyes C-130 Avionics Modernization
Program Link-16 Tactical Data Link
Processor.
Through this subcontract, which
was signed within the scope of the
avionics modernization of C-130
transport aircrafts of Turkish Naval
Forces Command, MilSOFT shall be
responsible for the development of
Link-16 Tactical Data Link Processor
(T-DLP) software and hardware,
tests and verification processes
to be performed at TAI and User
facilities and preparation of technical
documentation regarding T-DLP.
In his speech delivered at the
ceremony, MilSOFT CEO and Board
Member İsmail Başyiğit stated that
MilSOFT, with its current experiences in
the field of tactical data link processor
in airborne and naval platforms, shall
successfully
accomplish
Link-16
T-DLP development and integration
activities of Erciyes C-130 Avionics
Modernization
Program.
Başyiğit
also highlighted the importance of
cooperation
between
companies
like TAI as prime contractor and
subcontractors taking place in defence
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industry.
CEO of TAI Muharrem Dörtkaşlı
stated that TAI assumes important
liabilities in the field of defence and
aerospace and emphasized that
one of TAI’s key principles is to
transfer the business portions that
enable the existence and survival
of
subcontracting
companies,
which are reputable at their activity
fields and believed to perform and
produce high quality services and
products as solution partners. “In this
respect, we know for sure MilSOFT
shall successfully accomplish the
development of C-130 T-DLP software
and hardware” added Dörtkaşlı.
The
subcontract
for
the
development
of
Erciyes
C-130
Avionics
Modernization
Program
Link-16 Tactical Data Link Processor
was signed by CEO of TAI Muharrem
Dörtkaşlı, Aircraft Group Head Özcan
Ertem, MilSOFT CEO İsmail Başyiğit
and Supply & Contracts Director
Hakan Zeren.
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The First Decisions of Turkish Defence
Industry Executive Committee (SSIK)of
2013 were Announced
The final decision of T-LORAMIDS tender was postponed to the next SSİK meeting and RMK Marine was
announced as the successful bidder of MILGEM-S project. Göktürk-3 satellite featuring the synthetic aperture
radar characteristic that has been on Turkey’s agenda for a long time is to be developed with national
resources by TAI with the support of Aselsan and TÜBİTAK. Aselsan will produce Mobile Patrols for Temporary
Base Zones against terrorist attacks.
The
first
Defence
Industry
Executive Committee meeting was
chaired by Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General
Staff General Necdet Özel, National
Defence Minister İsmet Yılmaz and
Undersecretary for Defence Industries
Murad Bayar participated in the
meeting. The meeting lasted for four
and a half hours and significant
conclusions were formed yet again.
Once more, none of the bidders
were awarded for the $4 billion
programme T-LORAMIDS the long
range regional air defence and missile
system. In the Defence Industry
Executive Committee’s meeting on
17 July 2012 it was concluded that
the talks shall be continued for the
improvement of the proposals with
the following bidders; Raytheon
& Lockheed Martin partnership,
French-Italian Concern EUROSAM,
China’s
CPMIEC
and
Russia’s
Rosoboroneksport.
Six
months
passed and the final decision is still up
in the air for no satisfactory progress
has been made with the companies
on Turkey’s requirements yet. Turkey’s
hesitation about the defence system
to be opted is considered among the
reasons for postponement. However,
NATO’s willingness to deploy some of
the Patriot (PAC-3) systems that USA,
Germany and Netherlands have as a
precaution against Syria is regarded as
the most important cause of the delay.
RMK Marine is the successful
bidder of MILGEM-S Tender
At the SSİK meeting, another
decision that concerns Turkey closely
was also taken. RMK Marine was
found to be the successful bidder of
the tender for the mass production
of 6 MILGEM corvettes by private
shipyards. RMK Marine was competing
against Dearsan Shipyard in the tender.
Within the framework of the project
The construction and test
processes of the second and
third MILGEM corvettes are
on-going at Tuzla Shipyards
of Naval Forces Command.
The construction of the 4th
ship under MILGEM mass
production project is planned
to be realized by RMK
Marine. The mass production
is intended to be initiated in
2013 last quarter.
of a total of approximately $1.5 billion,
the 3rd ship shall be constructed at
Pendik shipyard of Turkish Naval Forces
Command and RMK Marine engineers
are expected to gain the required
capabilities during this process. The
remaining five corvettes shall be built
at the RMK Marine shipyard.
The first ship of MILGEM corvette
TCG-Heybeliada (that is in Turkish
Naval Forces Command’s inventory
and is currently on a mission at East
Mediterranean) and TCG-Büyükada’s
(of which the system integration
and tests are proceeding) platform
productions are accomplished at
Istanbul Pendik Shipyard of the Turkish
Naval Forces Command.
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No Winners at LPD Tender
No bidders were awarded for the
tender for an amphibious landing
platform dock (LPD) that is logistically
self-sustaining amphibious vessel
able to transport, sustain and land a
battalion-size force in the operational
areas. According to the SSİK’s
decision, RMK Marine, Sedef A.Ş.
and Dearsan A.Ş. shall be asked to
improve their proposals. 1 amphibious
landing platform dock together with 27
amphibious armoured assault vehicles
(AAV), 4 landing craft mechanized
(LCM), 2 landing craft, vehicle,
personnel (LCVP) and 1 Rigid-hulled
Inflatable Boat are planned to be
supplied through domestic production
within the scope of the Project.
Turkey to Produce a SAR
Equipped Intelligence Satellite
Many vital decisions concerning
Turkey were made at the SSİK meeting.
One of them was that Göktürk-3,
intelligence-gathering reconnaissance
and surveillance satellite equipped
with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR),
shall be manufactured by TAI with
Aselsan and TÜBİTAK’s support.
With the help of SAR, Göktürk-3 will
provide images day or night and under
all weather conditions and thus meet
the Turkish Armed Forces’ demand of
satellite images with high resolution.
1 satellite equipped with SAR, 1
permanent ground station and a spare
mobile ground station are planned to
be constructed within the scope of the
Project.
Aselsan to Produce Mobile Patrols
At the meeting, it was concluded
that the talks with Asealsan for an
agreement on the Project for the
Installation of a Modular Temporary
Base Zone Resistant to Terrorist
Attacks shall be launched. Studies for
replacing the old patrols in Southeast
and East Anatolia against terrorist
attacks with the high-tech patrols
namely “Kalekol” that are resistant
to missiles and heavy weapons
were being executed by the Turkish
Armed Forces under TOKI’s prime
contractorship. With SSİK’s decision,
Mobile Patrol project that Aselsan has
been working on for a while will also be
launched in addition to these patrols.
These mobile patrols could be installed
within 15 days in mountainous regions
and steep-lands where construction
The LPD is anticipated
to service as an
Offshore Base and have
capabilities to allow the
deployment of small
landing ships, helicopters,
task forces and armoured
units. 200-meter length
runway of the LPD
designed for helicopters
is planned also for the
use of vertical take-off
and landing aircrafts as
per the needs in following
phases.
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of permanent patrols is not possible.
Owing to its modular characteristic,
they could also be transported to other
regions by helicopters as well. These
mobile patrols would be resistant to
rocket launchers such as RPG-7 and
long-barrel weapons and they would
have a roof made of a special alloy
in order to strengthen the resistance.
These new bases, featuring the
characteristic of a mobile headquarter,
shall encompass remote controlled
firing systems, thermal camcorders
at watch points, nikon binoculars and
radars around the patrols. With the
help of these radars no living creature
shall be able to approach 7 km near
the patrol and the radars shall identify
whether the creature entering into
the safe zone is a human being or an
animal. The images shall be monitored
through the computers installed in
the main command centre within the
modular patrol and the soldiers shall
watch the surroundings securely
through electronic eyes and shall be
able to respond to the terrorist
attacks with the help of SARP
(Stabilized Advanced
Remote Platform)
developed
by
Aselsan
at the instant of a
threat. It could be
remotely controlled
from a command
centre through 12.7
mm and 7.62 mm
radius machine
guns
installed
over the SARP
systems. SARP
offers
ballistic
solutions
with
high
accuracy by the thermal and TV
camcorders and laser distance meters
and could be used under both day
and night conditions. Besides such
features, SARP has firing line and
line of sight stabilization, automatic
target tracking and improved ballistic
algorithms and is capable of accurate
firing when in motion.
Turkey Pushed the Button for
the Satellite Launching System
Starting the contract negotiations
with Roketsan for the Satellite
Launching System project to launch
the civilian and military satellites to
space was among the decisions
of the meeting. According to this
decision, studies shall be executed for
the conceptual design at first stage.
Turkey paid more than $20 million to
People’s Republic of China as a cost
of the launching of Göktürk-2 satellite.
In the meeting, decisions on the
following issues were also taken:
Starting the talks with Havelsan
on the Coast Watch Radar project
agreement, initiating negotiations with
TAI on the agreement for the authentic
design and development of military
and civilian light class (4 to 5 tons)
helicopters, conducting negotiations
on the contract for the Atak Helicopter
Simulation
project
with Havelsan and
authorizing
the
Undersecretariat for
Defence Industries
for
the
institution
of
a
technology
development
zone
within the structure of
the Undersecretariat
for
Defence
Industries at Kırıkkale
University and also taking part in
the establishment of an organized
industrial zone regarding the Weapon
and Ammunition Industry in Kırıkkale.
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Signature Ceremony of Industry
University Cooperation Agreement for
FX/TX Project
ITU, METU AND Bilkent Universities Joined Their Forces For 6 Projects At FX/TX Project Industry
Agreements for a total of six
projects within the framework of
Conceptual Design of Jet Trainer
Aircrafts and Combat Aircrafts were
signed with ITU, METU and Bilkent
Universities at FX/TX Project Industry
- University Cooperation Agreement
Signature Ceremony.
The
Industry
–
University
Cooperation Meeting within the scope
of Conceptual Design of Jet Trainer
Aircrafts and Combat Aircrafts was
held on February 8, 2013.
Undersecretary
for
Defence
Industries Murad Bayar, Deputy
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Mr. Murad Bayar, Undersecretary for Defence
Industries
Undersecretary (Platform Projects)
Serdar Demirel, ITU Chancellor Prof.
Mehmet Karaca, METU Chancellor
Prof. Ahmet Acar, Bilkent University
Vice Chancellor Prof. Cemal Yalabık,
General Manager of the Turkish Armed
Forces Foundation Hayrettin Uzun, TAI
Chairman of the Board Yalçın Kaya
and TAI General Manager Muharrem
Dörtkaşlı signed the agreements.
Murad Bayar: “Our endeavour
is to reflect all our knowledge
and thus gain our country
a combat aircraft.”
In his speech at the ceremony,
Murad Bayar mentioned that they
are exerting efforts to build a combat
aircraft within a total period of 50 years
composed of phases each lasting
for 10 years by reflecting Turkey’s all
accumulated knowledge. Reminding
the audience of the questions they
received on whether Turkey currently
has the capacity, knowledge and
technology to produce combat
aircrafts, Murad Bayar said “We have
to answer this question negatively as
of today. However, taking the current
developments in Turkey into account,
we aim to achieve this within 10-year
time and that’s why we are conducting
these studies”.
Stressing
the
essence
of
cooperation for producing a national
combat
aircraft,
Murad
Bayar
added: “TAI could not produce a
combat aircraft on its own. Neither
the Undersecretariat for Defence
Industries together with TAI nor our
Air Forces could do this. However if
we gather all Turkey’s capacity and
knowledge in this specific area then we
could achieve this. That’s why joining
our forces is of vital importance. So
we have to support this study with all
Turkey’s brainpower in order to speed
up this Project”.
Stating the limited academic
capacity of aviation and aerospace
engineering in Turkey Mr. Murad Bayar
said: “As far as I know there are no
universities educating on aviation
and aerospace engineering besides
ITU and METU. Turkish Aeronautical
Association has recently started
to educate in this area. In fact the
number of graduates from the current
departments is not sufficient. Indeed
we have a small number of graduates
and they are positioned in the required
fields of the industry. We need to
strengthen this area”.
Murad Bayar: “We have a
Joint Project Office.”
Presenting information on how the
studies were conducted within the
scope of the Project signed, Murad
Bayar said: “If we are to accomplish
our combat aircraft project, this shall
be through this Project’s concept and
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Mehmet Karaca: “We are really
proud of the point we reached:
Designing our own jet aircraft.”
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Prof. Mehmet Karaca, Chancellor of İstanbul
Technical University
design. We signed our contract nearly
two and a half years ago. We have
a joint project office and all Project
teams have been working in a single
building for year and a half. We in fact
have established a great teamwork
here. We are conducting this study at a
single place as a single team. If I have
to elaborate on the future plans, the
phase we are currently in is a 2-year
conceptual design study. We might as
well name this stage “the preliminary
project”. We are also making plans for
10-year design development and test
studies following this stage. This also
involves a comprehensive feasibility
study as well. By the end of this year,
we shall be answering the following
questions at our Steering Committee:
How would be the future requirement
of our Air Forces satisfied by exactly
what sort of aircraft? How shall we
produce this aircraft, through which
project and time schedule? As we
encounter in all projects, the last but
not the least issue shall be the costs.
So if we could answer these questions
properly, we could get the support of
our Steering Committee and then move
onto the next stage. We shall certainly
divide the next stage into various substages, so the 10-year would not be a
single phase. Within these stages, we
shall conduct studies for preliminary
design, prototypes, tests, etc. Still we
need to see the big picture by the end
of this year. We are currently writing the
scenario but we need to know the end
of the movie in order to start shooting
it. I would like to conclude my speech
by highlighting the hardship of this
journey”.
Chancellor of İstanbul Technical
University Prof. Mehmet Karaca
underlined that the FX/TX project is in
fact a conceptual design project which
would display the point Turkey reached
in the last 30 years and briefed on
this historic development: “I believe
that the President of that time Turgut
Özal would be pleased to see these
developments as I think he laid the
foundations for the Undersecretariat
for Defence Industries during his term.
Maybe we lost a lot of years on this
journey but still we are proud of the
point we stand as of today as we are
designing our national jet aircraft. As
you may know there are only a few
countries that could achieve this like
USA, Russia, China and European
league. This step of ours could be
considered as our move towards this
league of champions. I hope these
steps could continue increasingly.
The importance of the university in
these types of projects is undeniable.
What actually important in these
sorts of strategic projects is design
and analysis, materials, electronics,
control systems and high speed
aerodynamics.
The
development
and accumulation of knowledge is
indeed important and I am certain that
our technical universities and other
schools hold the necessary potential in
this field. We are currently witnessing
the examples of this case here. We,
as an institution, are represented by
4 projects here. Therefore I would
like to thank my academic members
especially”.
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Prof. Ahmet Acar, METU Chancellor
vision of our security and defence as
a country that would exceed 50 years
while also taking part in the researches
in high technology. I would like to
celebrate our Aerospace Engineering
Faculty members and wish them
success”.
Cemal Yalabık: “Only looking
at the topics of the Projects
is a source of pride.”
Bilkent University’s Vice Chancellor
Prof. Cemal Yalabık claimed that even
the topics of the projects show the
point reached in advanced technology
applications and thus made them
proud. Prof. Cemal Yalabık stated that
the related support not only for such
Ahmet Acar: “We are pleased to
involve in the research activities.”
In his speech, METU Chancellor
Prof. Ahmet Acar mentioned that they
are pleased to participate in such an
effort that would both give an impetus
to their university as well as the
industry.
Prof. Ahmet Acar stated that
the skills, which they expect to be
further improved in Turkey, were
displayed in this Project and added:
“The environments, where several
institutions join and cooperate under
a single roof, are the source of pride
for all of us. Therefore I would like to
thank the Undersecretariat for Defence
Industries and all other institutions
involved. Additionally, we are pleased
to participate in such a Project with a
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Prof. Cemal Yalabık, Bilkent University’s Vice
Chancellor
aerospace and aviation projects but
also for other projects regarding
advanced technology shall be
encouraged.
TAI Chairman of the Board Yalçın
Kaya explained the development
phases of Combat Aircrafts.
As a former combat pilot, TAI
Chairman of the Board Yalçın Kaya
gave information regarding the
development of combat aircrafts in
his speech at the ceremony. Yalçın
Kaya stated that he has over 40
years career in the combat aircrafts
in Turkey and said: “As you know,
after World War II, the jet aircrafts
emerged. In fact, the Germans had
tested these planes but arrival of
these jet aircrafts in our country
started in1950’s. First one of these
was the 84G and I started my
career in these combat aircrafts
with the next model 84F, then after
a short while I became the pilot
of F35. Five years later, the F4s
arrived and obviously the engines
of these planes went through lots
of changes up to this stage. Also
the hulls of these aircrafts changed
substantially. Therefore with the
changes in wings, engines and
velocity, we reached F16s and now
we pronounce the FX/TX. Currently,
we are envisioning FX. The combat
aircraft that will be produced as
a result of the efforts of university
chancellors, faculty members and
the youngsters was my dream and
as of today it is beginning to become
real”.
Dr. Murat Ceran: “The operation
strategy of the indigenous
combat aircraft shall be
defined within 2 years.”
Dr. Murat Ceran, Head of
Indigenous Aircraft Development
Projects at the Undersecretariat for
Defence Industries gave information
on the Project at the ceremony.
Stating that the Project commenced
with the signing of an agreement
between the Undersecretariat for
Defence Industries and TAI on
August 23, 2011, Murat Ceran
added that the Project duration is
24 months and the goal is to design
and develop indigenous combat
aircrafts that would meet the future
requirements of the Air Forces
Command to emerge in 2020s.
Murat Ceran stated that through this
Project, the operation strategy of the
indigenous combat aircraft will firstly
be defined within two years and
the requirement analysis for such
defined operation strategy as well
as the system configuration will be
accomplished by TAI. Murat Ceran
remarked that the international
cooperation
opportunities
are
amongst the issues that will be
examined within two years as well
and stated that they are at the 16th
month of 24-month Project duration,
that the Project is composed of
four phases, that the definition
of operation requirements and
requirement analysis phases are
completed and that they are now at
conceptual design phase.
Dr. Murat Ceran stated that
they evaluate the scope of Defence
Industry – University cooperation
under four main topics in the
Project and added “Under the first
topic, we plan to receive trainings
from the universities, experts and
faculty members regarding the
combat aircraft systems. Within this
framework, we want the knowledge
base at universities related to this
field is enriched. Secondly, we
ask for consultancy services from
our faculty members during the
requirement analysis and conceptual
design phases. Under the third
topic, we aim to achieve projects in
the fields required by the defence
and aviation industry following the
conceptual design phase. Lastly,
we expect the accomplishment of
researches that would increase the
level of our country’s technologic
preparation in the indigenous critical
technologies for our combat aircraft.
We conduct studies for the definition
of indigenous critical technologies
and expect the contribution from
the universities for the next phases
of our Project”.
Dr. Murat Ceran: “We wish
trainings would further be
developed and given by
other universities as well.”
Dr. Murat Ceran said that until
now the trainings organized jointly
by Continuing Training Centre and
Aerospace Engineering Department
of Middle East Technical University
were accomplished with the
initiatives of Personnel and Training
Department of the Undersecretariat
for Defence Industries, but more
trainings are still needed and that
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they want other universities to conduct
such trainings and studies as well.
In his speech Dr. Murat Ceran said:
“I could present the developments
regarding the six projects related
to the cooperation between the
universities. We selected these six
projects amongst fifty two projects and
while making this selection, we mostly
preferred the projects that would serve
the conceptual phase. In fact all the
projects were of great value but we
had to take into account the near
future. There are projects that would
be fruitful in the medium and long run
but we aim to realize those after 2-year
period”.
Making assessments regarding
the Project, Dr. Murat Ceran
concluded his speech as follows:
“We regard this Defence Industry –
University Cooperation within the
scope of the Indigenous Combat
Aircraft Conceptual Design Project
as an opportunity that would provide
support for the research experts at
the universities working on combat
aircrafts, develop the indigineous/
critical
technologic
information
infrastructure, enrich the post graduate
and doctorate studies, provide training
of qualified personnel required by the
industry and increase the product
oriented studies conducted with the
Industry and thus start a long-lasting
cooperation”.
1st PROJECT
Project for the Development of
Aerodynamic Optimization Software
in Parallel Calculation Environment via
3-Dimensional Panel Flow Decoder
It is a project to be realized by Prof.
İsmail Tuncer, Prof. Yusuf Özyörük and
post graduate students from METU. A
software tool is planned to be developed
by using a 3-dimensional flow
decoder. Aerodynamic optimization
of Indigenous Combat Aircraft’s wing
surface shall be accomplished under
subsonic conditions.
2nd PROJECT
Project for Examining the Wing
Saddle Temporary Flow and Vortex
Dynamics
for
High
Manoeuvre
Capability
The objective of this Project is to
empirically examine the wing saddle
flow vortex three different attack
angles. In this Project, Assoc. Prof.
Okşan Çetiner, Engineer MSc Berk
Zaloğlu and Research Assistant Onur
Son from ITU’s Aerospace Engineering
Faculty will work together.
3rd PROJECT
Project for Empirical Examination
of Shockwave – Boundary Layer
Interactions in Supersonic Air Inlets
With this Project, contribution for
the realization of experimental studies
in the supersonic wind tunnels as
well as identification of aerodynamic,
structural and control characteristics
of the aircraft will be provided. Assoc.
Prof. K. Bülent Yüceil and post
graduate students will work together in
this Project.
4th PROJECT
Project for the Design of Supersonic
Air Inlets and Power Pack Integration
for Aircrafts with Supersonic Speed
Assoc. Prof. Hayri Acar and post
graduate students of ITU’s Aerospace
Engineering Department will work
together in this Project. Main objective
is to design a channel between the air
inlet and engine.
5th PROJECT
Project for Examining the Impact
Resistance of Carbon Nanotube based
Fibre Composites
Dr. Hülya Cebeci and post graduate
students from ITU’s Aerospace
Engineering Department will work
together in this Project. Main objective
is the empirical examination of polymer
matrix composites’ impact resistance.
6th PROJECT
Project for the Examination of
Design Alternatives Regarding Low
Visibility
Prof. Levent Gürel and post
graduate students from Bilkent
University will work together in
this Project. Main objective is to
perform Radar Cross Sectional Area
Calculation, make Scattering Centre
Analysis and contribute to designs
regarding low visibility.
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Improving
Technology
Industry Base
By Kaya Yazgan, Defence Turkey Magazine
Member of Advisory Board
Everybody agrees that Turkey has
developed a considerable capability
in defence industry. The healthy
increase in the annual turnover figures,
proliferation of exports, indigenous
designs of communication equipment,
unmanned air vehicles, battle ships,
main battle tank, missiles…can be
cited to prove this (www.sasad.org.
tr). Subject of discussion today is
the sufficiency of Turkish industry technology base to support major
platform integration programs in this
endeavour. Technology per se does
not win wars. But Nations always look
for innovations that can offer them
competitive advantages over their
adversaries and innovation will always
be a national security “wild card”.
The defence technology base can
be defined as “that combination of
people, institutions, information, and
skills that provides the technology
used to develop and manufacture
weapons and other defence systems.
It rests on a dynamic, interactive
network of laboratory facilities,
commercial and defence industries,
sub-tier component suppliers, venture
capitalists, science and engineering
professionals,
communications
systems, universities, data resources,
and design and manufacturing knowhow.” (The Defense Technology Base:
Introduction and Overview, Congress
of the US, Technology Assesment
Office,March 1988)
First of all defence technology and
industry base is a very complicated
structure. It is divided into a series of
levels or tiers. At the top tier of the
defence industrial base there are prime
contractors, often large corporations
whose main task is to bring together
all the necessary components for a
system and integrate them into a whole
defence system. On the other hand the
majority of production base companies
are in the subtiers. The subcontractor
tier of the defence production base
is the most diverse in terms of size,
product, and production technology,
and includes both industrial giants and
small machine shops. A subcontractor
manufactures
specialized
parts,
components or subsystems that are
integrated into a larger subsystem or
final system. In a major weapon system,
several layers of subcontractors might
produce hundreds or thousands of
individual items. As noted above
universities, laboratories, research
centres… are important components
of the technology base and they are
completely different entities with
different priorities than industry.
Establishment and development
of a defence technology base is a
major issue for every individual nation
and alliance. Just to indicate the
complexity of this controversial area,
we may consider the experience of
the European Union in past decades.
Strategic
Defence
Initiative-SDI
(informally known as “star wars”)
was formally introduced in President
Reagan’s speech in March 1989.
West Europeans, and especially the
French, realised the inability of this
space–based shield to protect Europe
from their threat - short range missiles.
In the words of François Mitterrand
“West Europeans should initiate an
indigenous programme, rather than
wasting their talent on a US dominated
project” (The European Community
and the Security Dilemma, 1979-92
by Holly Wyatt-Walter). Europeans
adopted EUREKA (European Research
Coordination Agency) charter in
1985. However in the atmosphere of
post cold war, allocation of sufficient
resource to defence related activities
seemed impossible for Europeans
and in the first half of 1990’s, Europe
took the back seat to the US & NATO
initiative to end the conflict in Balkan’s.
On the other hand efforts for
coordinated
defence
research
continued under the umbrella of
Western
European
Armaments
Group –WEAG. Thirteen areas were
determined to be Common European
Priority Areas - CEPA’s. But allocation
of approximately 100 million Euros
per year was not sufficient; WEAG
body closed in 2005. WEAG left a
very limited number of programmes
(such as FREMM, TIGER, A400M)
to be managed under “Organisation
Conjointe de Cooperation en matiere
d’ARmement – OCAAR”. European
Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
sates its aim as creation of a European
Defence Technological and Industrial
Base (EDTIB) which is capable of
providing the bulk of equipment
for European Armed Forces “with
less European dependence on nonEuropean sources for key defence
technologies” (Steering Board of the
European Defence Agency, 2007, A
Strategy for the European Defence
Technological and Industrial Base,
Brussels, 14 May 2007, p. 2). But this
is a really challenging issue for EU.
Because annual spending for military
equipment procurement of the US is
about $120-140 Billion (2010 figure
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$140.1 Billion) whereas corresponding
figure for the total of EU member states
is the range of $30-40 Billion. Hence
the US spends 3 times more than EU.
For R&D spending the scene is even
worse. US RDT&E expenses are above
$60 Billion (2010 figure $79.1 Billion);
EU spends 10-15 Billion$ and the US/
EU ratio exceeds 5.
In Turkey, as expected, major
defence projects are given to prime
contractor-level system integrators.
In parallel we expect to have
innovative small enterprises to
support main system integrators.
The Undersecreteriat for Defence
Industries (SSM) has developed a
number of incentives and regulations
such as local content ratios, SME
share ratios, industrial participation
schemes…etc.
Nevertheless
the
issue is still challenging. One of the
many faces of the problem is financial
limitations of these small enterprises.
Significant investment requirement
for today’s advance technology and
employing high quality personnel for
extended periods are major handicaps
for small and medium enterprises.
Another difficulty appears at the
marketing stage. Most probably sales
to one national system-platform
integrator will not be sufficient to
recover the costs. Let’s suppose that
a valve producer designed the “most
innovative” valve for a special defence
application and delivered 5-6 of them
to a naval shipyard. We can imagine
how difficult will be to export this valve
in the highly competitive international
market.
If we consider the “support”
side of the issue we again face a
difficulty: “What to support and how to
support?” There are a few alternative
approaches:
• We collect R&D project proposals;
try evaluating them on the basis of
technical and economical feasibility;
and provide financial support as much
as possible. This approach is based
on the expectation that R&D projects
supported will somehow be useful for
major defence programs in the future.
• The second approach starts with
determination of technology areas
required for major defence projects
which are planned for the future. Then
various models can be used. In freemarket economies companies prepare
proposals for R&D projects (Critical
Technologies Plan listing of US is
a good example). In state-oriented
economies some establishments may
be “designated” for the work (Republic
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of Korea is/was an example). If we go
further, in state-owned economies,
some state institutions may undertake
the design and production (as we see
in the case of nuclear technology in
Iran). Whichever model is applied,
this conservative and traditional
approach of “area determination” will
be successful if we can make a good
projection and forecasting for the
future.
• The third approach will be the
combination of the first two. The
supporting organisation will indicate
priorities in very broad terms. To
evaluate many alternative solutions
initially, many (almost all) proposals
should be supported with small
separate budgets. I believe a good –and
unfortunately rather costly- example is
DARPA (Defense Advance Research
Projects Agency) of US. DARPA states
its priority in very broad sense. For
example the Active Authentication
program aims “to identify the person
at the console using unique aspects
of the individual through the use of the
software based biometrics”. Based
on this broad description, candidates
are encouraged to imagine very
different approaches. Typically the fist
phase of DARPA support goes to a
number of parallel university research
projects. Then promising approaches
are carried out to the application
phase. DARPA has a budget of $2.53 Billion out of the above mentioned
$80 Billion defence RDT&E budget
of US. Approximately %15 of DARPA
budget is allocated to basic research,
%43 to applied research and %42 to
advance technology development.
Also from the organisation and
management point of view, DARPA is a
very interesting agency. They manage
this high technology multi billion dollar
business with 120 experts. Scientists
and engineers have 3-5 year turn at
DARPA.
While we put emphasize on
“defence” another important factor is
the inseparability of “defence oriented”
from “general industry oriented”
technologies. Concepts of dual use
and contribution of general technology
base to defence effort are well
elaborated subjects. Here we come
to the much debated issue of general
R&D expenditure. In Turkey, according
to previous plans, the basic R&D
parameter, ratio of R&D expenditure
over GDP, would be over 1% by 2003
(Türk Bilim ve Teknoloji Politikası
1993-2003, TÜBİTAK). However latest
statistics indicate that this ratio could
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only be increased to 0.86 in 2011.
(www.tubitak.gov.tr)
On this issue Frost&Sullivan draws
our attention to Czech Republic:
“Czech Republic has the highest
R&D expenditure (as percent of GDP)
among Central and Eastern Europe
countries. In 2010, it reached 1.56
percent of the country’s GDP, growing
from 1.17 percent in 2000. However,
compared to the EU27 average (2.0
percent), country’s R&D expenditure is
still low and far from the 3.0 percent
objective set up at Barcelona summit in
2002. Chech Republic started an R&D
programme for years 2009 to 2014. The
programme named 34 thematic areas,
grouped in four thematic priorities,
which were the focus of Czech R&D.
These included: R&D for competitive
industry (10 thematic areas), molecular
biology for health and prosperity (4
thematic areas), information society
(9 thematic areas) and society and
environment (11 thematic areas)”.
Dominika Grzywińska (Industry Analyst
at Frost & Sullivan) notes that “Almost
four years after introducing the reform,
there is still a plenty of work that
needs to be done. Steps undertaken
by the Czech government are without
doubt necessary in order to develop
competitive and thriving R&D industry.
But actual results, translating into
increase in scientific quotations, higher
employment in R&D and, last, but not
least tangible financial outcomes, are
still to be seen.”
In parallel to the increasing the
importance of “R&D which is notspecific-to-defence” we have a
conversion in the role of Government.
We are living in a very dynamic and
enterprising age. Government is no
longer the principal player in the
research and development that shapes
the character of the modern era.
Especially in areas like biotechnology,
communication
and
information
systems, private-sector innovations
are much higher than government
research. These emerging industries
are creating products that only
science-fiction writers can imagine.
With dual-use capabilities they will be
transformed to defence and in many
cases, national security innovations
will come from adapting commercial
off-the-shelf technology.
In short we should engage in this
contest, contribute this very interesting
transformation in defence technology.
Or we will be observers only.
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Amphenol
Connecting
Tomorrow and
Technologies
© Amphenol
Amphenol is one of the largest manufacturers of
interconnect products in the world. Mr. Hakan Saraçoğlu,
General Manager of Turkey and middle East at Amphenol
assessed general structure of companies, core capabilities,
new technologies and products and collobration with
Turkish Defence and Aerospace Companies for Defence
Turkey Magazine.
Defence Turkey: First of all, could you
please enlighten us about the general
structure, core capabilities and products of
Amphenol?
Amphenol is one of the largest
manufacturers of interconnect products in
the world. As Amphenol, we have world
class leadership experience in designing and
manufacturing;
Connectors
›› Fiber Optic connectors
›› Cables (Coaxial, Flat Ribbon)
›› Interconnections systems
›› Antennas (High frequency and Mobile phone
Antennas)
As Amphenol, we have;
›› More than 100 Factories our offices on 6
continents
›› More than 10.000.000 part numbers
›› Very strong R&D Groups
Defence Turkey: How do you asses
Amphenol’s position in 2012? What are your
goals in 2013?
As Amphenol, we are continuously
expanding worldwide (2012:4,3 billion dollars)
The numbers of our factories have reached
the number 100. This expanding will also keep
going on in 2013. Our target for 2013 is to
reach 4,8 billion dollars.
As Amphenol Turkey Office, we have
enlarged approximately 15 times more in 9
years. And for this year we are aiming to grow
at least % 15-20.
Defence Turkey: What are your R&D
activities? Could you please inform us about
your new technologies and new products?
Each of our factories have really experienced
R&D. We are in technology business. Our
R&D’s are working with the world’s leading
companies (Airbus, Boeing, Sikorski, Lockeed
Martin,..) and they are evolving new products
in accordance with the needs.
When looking on surface, connector
seems to be a simple component however its
really techniquely detailed. Even if you obtain
the best product in the world, its performance
is just as the connected element which it is
combined with. That is why, the connector
choice is primarily important. As Amphenol,
we exist as the expert of the market since the
year 1932.
For an example of the developed
technologic elements, I especially would like
to mention the product Amphenol AIR LB
SIM connector and Junction modules which is
used in military and aeronautics. I call them as
‘ Lego connectors’. You can obtain whatever
connecter you want by choosing the modules
which are available at the external structure in
2,4,8,16 or 32 amount. We can make custom
designs according to customer request. Below,
you can see the related photo. This aspect
provides our R&D and purchasing colleagues
convenience in designing.
Defence Turkey: Could you please
mention about the structure, mission and
key areas of Amphenol Turkey?
We are responsible from Turkey and Middle
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East countries except Israil. Customer
satisfaction is our primary mission. We
mainly focus on understanding the
needs, and mentality of our customers
and surpass their expectation.
We have over ten million part
numbers among our 100 factories
which can be used in each positions
where connection entity is needed.
We are making effort too much to
reach all of our customers and answer
their needs together with each of our
local and global distributors in our
territory. We continuously analyze what
is important for them and so keep our
business healthy and growing
Defence Turkey: Turkey is
one of the significant markets for
Amphenol and you have successfully
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collaborated with Turkish firms in the
past and present. Could you please
enlighten us about your activities
in Turkey and ongoing programs in
defence, aerospace, civil aviation
and naval sector?
We are cooperating with most
of our main customers’ R&D’s in
many projects such as military radar,
helicopter, UAV, Tank, and national
ship
Defence Turkey: How do you
assess the collaboration with
Turkish defence and aerospace
companies?
Amphenol is a well-known brand
especially in military and aviation fields
with its wide range of product and
professional experience of over 80
years .
We have been working for long
years with our customers as Aselsan,
TAI, Mikes. Amphenol has initiated
the offices in Turkey and Middle East
just to be closer to its customers and
comprehend them more for a better
service. We, as Amphenol Turkey are
directly connected to the head office
but it is not important from which of
our factory supplies the product. What
is important for us is to obtain the
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product which directly answers the
needs of our customers.
please inform us about your future
plan in Turkey to expand your
presence in the market?
To communicate further both
in Turkey and in Middle East the
Amphenol range of products and
quality to more customers with
our strong and respectable local
distributors in its sector.
Defence Turkey: Finally, would
you like to add something and give
a message to our readers?
Whenever or wherever you need
interconnect products, please be
informed that there is big family to help
you in the world.
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Amphibious Armoured Combat
Earthmover Vehicles (AZMIM) was
Delivered to Turkish Armed Forces
A total of 12 Amphibious Armoured
Combat Earthmover vehicles (AZMIM),
which were produced by FNSS, were
delivered to the Land Forces at a
ceremony. These 12 vehicles were
decided to be developed and produced
in accordance with the requirements of
Land Forces Command with a contract
signed between Undersecretariat for
Defence Industries (SSM) and FNSS
in 2009. Deputy Minister of National
Defence Hasan Kemal Yardımcı,
Land Forces Logistics Commander
Lieutenant General Adem Huduti,
Murad Bayar, FNSS CEO Nail Kurt,
senior bureaucrats from SSM and
representatives of the sector attended
the ceremony held at FNSS Gölbaşı
premises.
At his speech at the ceremony,
Deputy Minister of National Defence
Hasan Kemal Yardımcı stated that
the defence industry is amongst the
leading sectors in Turkey in terms of
institutionalisation and added that it has
been performing activities in order to
provide solutions for the requirements
of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF). “Our
major objective is to generate Turkish
designed projects and one of our
priorities is to produce these designs
in Turkey as well as to be capable of
selling them in the world” continued
Yardımcı. Emphasizing the increasing
popularity of selling products to TAF in
the world he added: “The reference of
TAF is of vital significance. We have to
enjoy this opportunity. We should work
harder and also be aware the bar is set
higher”.
The Undersecretary for Defence
Industries Murad Bayar also took the
floor at the ceremony and stated that
FNSS has become a global company
and model in defence industry. He said
FNSS has currently been developing
indigenous products and delivering
them to TAF. “These are all supporting
our lately underlined defence industry
objective, which is providing solutions
to TAF’s requirements. We could have
procured them from foreign countries
but it wouldn’t be a solution” continued
Bayar. Bayar also pointed out that
Turkey would become number one
in the world and said: “We should be
assertive to raise our level to the top”.
Kurt: “No other amphibious
dozer in the world yet!”
FNSS CEO Nail Kurt gave
information about AZMIM and said
it was produced to move earth, clear
terrain obstacles, cut steep slopes and
stabilize stream banks for easy river
Land Forces
Logistics
Commander
Lieutenant
General Adem
Huduti gave
plaques to military
personnel involved
in the project.
crossing of combat vehicles during
Turkish Army’s amphibious warfare
and that it was armoured to be mineresistant. Kurt recorded that there is no
other amphibious dozer in the world like
AZMIM yet and said: “Again there is no
other vehicle in the world having such
protection at this tonnage. Therefore
we are really proud to design, produce
and deliver such cost-effective vehicle
in a very short time”. Kurt also said
that they will be ready to give support
for these vehicles that they produced
even after the delivery irrespective of
the warranty period.
Following the speeches, Deputy
Minister of National Defence Hasan
Kemal Yardımcı, Land Forces Logistics
Commander
Lieutenant
General
Adem Huduti and Undersecretary
for Defence Industries Murad Bayar
presented plaques to those who
contributed to the Project. FNSS CEO
Nail Kurt handed over AZMIM’s key to
Lieutenant General Adem Huduti and
had a souvenir photo taken in front of
the vehicle with the guests
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TEI to Develop Indigenous Engine for
ANKA Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Undersecretariat
for
Defence
Industries (SSM) and TEI signed
a contract for the development of
an indigenous engine specific for
ANKA unmanned aerial vehicle. The
signature ceremony of the project,
which will contribute to innovation and
technological development oriented
goals of Turkey in its 2023 vision,
was held with the participation of
Murad Bayar and TEI General
Manager Akın Duman. The engine
to be developed in compliance with
aerospace and military standards
through modification in order to meet
ANKA platform’s needs is planned
to be completed within four years
including qualification and certification
tests.
The project will cover the design
and development of hardware and
software of engine in accordance with
the required aerospace standards, its
production, tests as per aerospace
and military standards, realization
of
technologic
demonstration,
type certification, establishment of
technical data package, training and
maintenance activities.
The development, type certification
and Design Organization Management
Approval studies will be carried out
collaterally within the Project scope.
The engine is to be developed in
compliance with mechanical and
electronic interfaces of Anka platform
and to generate 155 HP. The engine
to be developed will meet Anka’s
performance and electrical needs
at high altitude and have redundant
digital engine control unit.
Collaborations will be made with
local companies and organizations
in realizing the Project and in
consequence
the
local
supply
and engineering network as well
as specialized human resources
infrastructure will be improved.
This Project is said to be an
important step in Turkey for the
development of aircraft engine on the
basis of piston engines, improvement
of test and analysis capabilities, training
of specialized personnel and the
acquisition of crucial technology. The
know-how, experience and manpower
to be obtained as a consequence of
© Defence Turkey
Mr. Murad Bayar, Undersecretary for Defence
Industries
this Project will establish a base for
other engine design, development and
modification projects to contribute to
Turkey’s 2023 goals.
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© Defence Turkey
The First Maritime Surveillance
Aircraft was Delivered to Turkish Coast
Guard
The first of three maritime
surveillance aircraft under the Meltem
II programme was delivered to Turkish
Coast Guard at TAI facilities. This
aircraft will be operated by the Turkish
Coast Guard from Izmir Air Base.
The Minister of Internal Affairs
İdris Naim Şahin, Undersecretary for
Defence Industries Murad Bayar, Coast
Guard Commander Rear Admiral
Hasan Uşaklıoğlu, French Ambassador
to Ankara Laurent Bili, Thales Senior
Vice President Pierre Eric Pommellet,
officials from Undersecretary for
Defence Industries, TAI, Havelsan and
MilSOFT and many other distinguished
guests attended the ceremony held at
TAI facilities.
At his speech delivered at the
ceremony, Minister of Internal Affairs
İdris Naim Şahin stated that the
surveillance of coasts within 120
nautical miles, nearly 200 kilometres
can be performed easily by these
aircrafts. “Thanks to the advanced
systems equipped on these aircrafts,
any and all illegal actions like
smuggling, illicit fishing and marine
pollution/contamination
can
be
instantly viewed and transferred to
command control centre” said Şahin.
Undersecretary
for
Defence
Industries Murad Bayar also delivered
a speech and said the delivery of
surveillance aircrafts was initiated after
a long and challenging process. He
made a brief explanation on Meltem
II programme and said the project is
carried out with Thales - the prime
contractor - and consists of total
9 maritime surveillance and patrol
aircrafts. Bayar stated that 6 of the
aircrafts are to be delivered to Naval
Forces Command and the remaining 3
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to Coast Guard Command and added
that the second and third aircrafts are to
be delivered to Coast Guard Command
in January and February. Bayar
remarked that the aviation capabilities
of the Coast Guard Command shall
be enhanced by this way in a short
period of time. “Although Thales is
the prime contractor, the majority of
work is carried out in Turkey and all
modifications to aircrafts are performed
at TAI. 37% local contribution share is
achieved.” added Bayar.
TAI Chairman of the Board Yalçın
Kaya stated at his speech that MeltemII Project, which was initiated in 2002,
is executed with Thales - the prime
contractor – for meeting maritime
patrol and surveillance aircraft needs
of Naval Forces Command and Coast
Guard Command. “We are pleased
to see that CN235 light transport
aircrafts have gained capabilities
through modifications to perform
reconnaissance, surveillance and
patrolling; control and prevention of
maritime pollution;
detection and
prevention of smuggling and when
necessary research-rescue activities.”
said Yalçın.
At his speech, Thales Senior Vice
President Pierre Eric Pommellet also
emphasized that the aircrafts delivered
and to be delivered within the scope
of Meltem-II Project are of great
importance for Turkish coastal security
and added that the delivered aircraft
was subjected to 170 hour flight test
before delivery. “We are delivering an
aircraft to the Coast Guard Command
which is equipped with state-of-theart technologic solutions. More than
6000 parts/items of the aircraft were
modified/renewed.” said Pommellet.
Pommellet also stated that the Turkish
defence industry is like the base of
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Mr. Murad
Bayar,
Undersecretary
for Defence
Industries;
Thales Senior
Vice
President Mr.
Pierre Eric
Pommellet
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European defence industry and that
they, as Thales, want to establish
partnerships with Turkish companies.
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Meltem-II Programme
Turkey initiated Meltem-II Project
in order to add Maritime Patrol and
Maritime Surveillance abilities to 9 CN235-100M platforms supplied under
Meltem-I Project.
Thales is the prime contractor for
the Meltem II programme, which calls
for the delivery of six maritime patrol
aircraft for the Turkish Navy and three
maritime surveillance aircraft for the
Turkish Coast Guard, all based on
modified CASA CN-235 platforms. The
programme also includes the provision
of additional maritime patrol systems
to the Turkish Navy, to be integrated
on ATR 72 aircraft. All mission systems
are based on Thales’s AMASCOS
solution (Airborne Maritime Situation &
Control System).
This marks the delivery of the
first maritime surveillance aircraft
equipped with the Thales AMASCOS
mission system, which will provide
the Turkish Coast Guards with an
enhanced capability to better monitor
the Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone
and Territorial Waters.
This maritime surveillance aircraft
is designed to perform a broad
spectrum of missions including:
›› Surface Surveillance and Naval control,
anti-drug and other types of smuggling
operations, the prevention of illegal
immigration and illicit fishing
›› Maritime pollution surveillance, with
the provision of enhanced evidence
collection capabilities, essential to this
kind of operation
›› Search and rescue operations.
The planes of the coast
guard are equipped
with a side looking
airborne radar (SLAR),
AselFLIR-200, Ocean
Master 400 radar.
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The Year’s
Innovation Product
is from Aselsan
New Era in Public Security and Emergency
Communication
Aselsan 4900 Atlas Handheld
Radio, which was awarded with
an “Innovation Product Reward”
by the Turkish Electronics Industry
Association (TESİD) within the scope of
2012 Innovation and Creativity Awards,
denounces a new era in Public Security
and Emergency Communication.
Faik Eken, Aselsan Vice President
& CEO of Communications and IT
Division, said that 4900 Atlas handheld
radio is an innovative and creative
product and this award fully describes
this product. “We brought together
the communication and information
technology in Atlas. There is a colour
graphic screen on the radio. The
user is automatically informed on
the geographical position through
the radio. In other words, the radio
shows its user where he is. The radio
also has a direction finding feature.
The information centre is able to
continuously monitor the coordinates
of the team using such radio. Our new
product fulfils many radio functions
solely with data applications.” said
Eken and continued: “In recent
years, the digital applications using
advanced technologies in the field
of Public Security and Emergency
Communication
are
becoming
widespread in our country. The
experiences have proven out the
challenge to ensure maintainability
and sustainability of the systems
© Aselsan
purchased as a package from foreign
countries especially in emergency
cases and disasters cases. Aselsan
systems are developed by Turkish
engineers and the know-how as well
as the required man-power to maintain
such systems in emergency cases are
available in our country. We are proud
to give maintenance and repair support
to the products within hours regardless
of where they are in Turkey.”
Developed by Aselsan engineers,
Atlas is a new generation product
having integrated GPS, maps, data
application tools as well as functioning
in
multimode,
multiband
and
multisystem.
The users are able to learn
their geographical positions via
the integrated GPS receiver on the
device and view on the digital map
via the wide screen on the radio. The
coordinates of the users are also
transferred to the centre over the radio.
Thus, the locations and coordinates of
the users using handheld radios are
possible to be monitored from the
centre. The new generation radios,
which are compatible with the existing
infrastructure, provide the performance
of applications simultaneously such as
police, gendarmerie, fire brigade and
ambulance services.
Multimode,
multiband
and
multisystem
functioning
features
satisfy the diversified demands of the
users at mission critical environments
with all-in-one handheld radio. Atlas
is designed for meeting the needs of
users such as wide screen, integrated
map, data applications, embedded
GPS receiver, high capacity battery,
advanced encryption techniques,
durability, ergonomics and lightness.
Aselsan’s 35 years of experience and
valuable customer feedbacks received
from all over the world have contributed
to the excellent design of 4900 radio.
Atlas shall be an indispensible
device for public security
Atlas enables safe and secure
communications of Public Security
Communication Units using different
modes, systems and bands. This
diversification makes Atlas 4900
handheld radio a unique device for
different users. The radios currently
used by institutions operate on two
separate frequency bands as VHF and
UHF. Atlas enables communication on
both bands with a single device.
With its noise suppression system
that enables the usage in noisy
environments, Atlas has also a USB
2.0 support for quick connection.
Aselsan Atlas 4900 radio facilitates
the customer’s field operations with its
airborne software update support and
airborne configurability feature.
After mass production, the first
deliveries of Atlas were initiated to
Gendarmerie General Command,
Turkish
General
Staff,
Service
Commands
and
İzmir
Grand
Municipality. Aselsan professional
radios have a significant share in export
activities. Performing export activities
to 39 countries, Aselsan sells its radios
to many countries amongst which are
USA, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka. The recently developed Atlas
is expected to have more effective and
larger market share in international
markets.
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“trainings leads to success, quality
makes the difference”
Training, system installation and
consulting service
ISO 9001 Quality management
systems – Requirements
greenhouse gas emissions and
removals
ISO 14001 Environmental
management systems –
Requirements with guidance for use
ISO 18001 Occupational health
and safety management systemsReuirements
ISO 50001 Energy Management
Systems- Requirements with
guidance for use
ISO 19011 Guidelines for quality
and/or environmental management
systems auditing
ISO 14064-1 Greenhouse
gases- Part1. Specification with
guidance at the organization level
for quantification and reporting of
AS/EN/JISQ 9100 Quality
Management Systems –
Requirements for Aviation, Space
and Defense Organizations
“Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world of”
Nelson Mandela
AS/EN 9110 Quality Management
Systems – Requirements for Aviation
Maintenance Organizations
AS/EN 9120 Quality Management
Systems – Requirements for
Aviation,Space and Defense
Distributors
ISO 10007 Quality management
systems – Guidelines for
configuration management
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Closing the Gap Between the Predictable and the Unpredictable
GE-Intelligent Platforms
In the world of autonomous control
of a UAV, there are many things that
can be predicted and accounted for.
The path that a vehicle will travel can
be mapped from known navigable
routes. Static objects that box that
path can be identified and avoided
using long-range imaging, plus nonreal-time processing and adaptive
path planning, which can be a
combination of onboard and remote
monitoring assets. Other moving
vehicles can be made cooperative in
their operation via rules of operation
and telemetry transmitting devices. All
of these things create an environment
whereby location technology and
rules execution can enable successful
autonomous vehicle operation.
All objects, however, cannot be
made cooperative. For example, if
an automated vehicle is a car and
a soccer ball rolls into its path, and
seconds later a child follows the ball,
their sudden presence can neither be
predicted nor cooperative in nature.
For any autonomous vehicle, a similar
uncooperative threat can be imagined.
Real-time moving object tracking input
will help to determine unexpected
events, new potential threats, and
the ability to project the correct
course of action for safe operation
and mission completion.This paper
explores the ramifications of real-time
autonomous vehicle performance in
cluttered environments. It analyzes
the gap between the predictable and
the
unpredictable,introduces
real
object tracing, explores the benefits
and pitfalls of real-time moving object
tracking and introduces possible
solutions for uninterrupted operation of
autonomous vehicles. Additionally, we
demonstrate reliability improvement
opportunities that can be derived
when real-time tracking data is used in
conjunction with predicted trajectory
data to provide real-time performance
assessments of vehicle operation.
A person operating a motor
vehicle uses sensory inputs, learned
knowledge, experience and instincts
to successfully navigate from point A
to point B. Their learned knowledge
includes the route traveled, the
information necessary to identify
objects and landmarks along their
path and the ability to predict their
future actions and reactions. From a
driver’s learned knowledge, objects
such as rocks, cars, trees, animals and
buildings can be distinguished from
each other.
Furthermore, identification of an
object allows for a driver’s expectation
of an object’s behavior which can be
either predictable or unpredictable.
For example, a building is predictably
static and non-moving and an oncoming car is expected to stay in its
lane of travel. On the other hand, the
sometimes erratic behavior of a bird or
a dog in the road cannot be accurately
predicted.
In addition to learned knowledge,
a human operator will draw upon their
past experience to make decisions
about the environment that they are
operating in. Having driven previously
through an area may help to determine
the behavior of the driver when they
travel through the same or similar area
again. Experience while potentially
beneficial however, is not always
necessary for successful navigation,
and due to the dynamic nature of the
world, may not always permit valid
input.
Sensory input including sight,
sound, smell, and touch can help in
the identification of objects and the
recognition of unpredicted events.
Unpredictable events come in many
forms such as objects that have no
predictable behavior (i.e. a bird),
a predictable object that does the
unexpected like an oncoming car that
crosses the centerline, or in the form of
an unforeseen event such as an object
that suddenly enters a vehicle’s path
with no prior warning.
Sensory inputs allow for the
tracking and closed loop avoidance* of
unpredictable objects. The recognition,
tracking and avoidance of unpredicted
events are by far the most important
and differentiating functions between
a human operator and an autonomous
control system.
Consider the following example: A
vehicle is traveling along a road and on
the right-hand side of the road there is
a school building. On the far side of the
building there is a soccer field for the
school. There is a low fence around the
playing field and an open gate to allow
access and the school building blocks
the driver’s view of the activities on the
field.
Suddenly,
as
the
vehicle
approaches the field, a soccer ball with
a young child in pursuit rolls into the
street directly into the path of the oncoming vehicle. The vehicle operator
must make a quick decision to take
an action quickly and correctly. Should
the vehicle suddenly stop or quickly
swerve to the side to avoid the moving
obstacles of the ball and child? Those
are valid questions,but they can’t be
answered without more information.
Which direction is the ball and child
moving? Are they moving in the same
direction? Will the driver’s response
guarantee avoidance? What will it take
to make a good decision? The answer
is timely, accurate and relevant inputs.
In this case, actionable intelligence
comes from collecting data about
the dynamic environment around the
vehicle. When the human is in the loop,
either directly or remotely, the main
source of this actionable input is the
driver’s vision. Human vision detects
movement, and relative direction and
velocity of the motion. This information
is then used by the brain to decide the
correct responsive action to take and
transmit the proper signals to the rest
of the body to carry out an avoidance
maneuver. So,how do we translate this
capability to an autonomous vehicle?
Case For Automated
Target Tracking
While there are several methods of
detecting movement and measuring
the direction and the velocity of motion,
the method that most resembles those
human capabilities of visual input
is the use of imaging sensors and
automated target tracking hardware.
Most autonomous or remotely piloted
systems already have imaging sensors
on-board, so the addition of an
automated target tracking capability
builds upon capabilities that are
already resident in the platform.
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Video Processing
Architecture Overview
The block diagram in Figure 1
defines a potential video ingest system.
This particular system is segmented
into three processing areas: image,
visualization, and post processing. The
separation between these processing
areas is defined by the timeliness in
which the required computational
load can be completed and the timing
necessary for the computation result
to be relevant. The image processor
segment is where data extraction from
raw video occurs. Image registration,
detection of moving objects, and
target tracking occur in this processing
area. Data that can be used for realtime operation of hardware assets
such as the steering gimbal, weapons
system, and sense avoidance system
is generated in the image processor.
This area is where an automatic
target tracker function would reside.
The visualization processor takes
data processed image frames and
packages them for video consumption.
The visualization processing activities
typically include image enhancement,
mosaicing, stitching, graphical overlay,
image fusion, and image stabilization.
These activities may also include
display formatting or compression
depending on the consumption
method.
The post processor uses all of the
available metadata about the video to
process the images to provide object
identification, object recognition and
activity-based intelligence. If these
activities can be completed while the
object is still within the field of view
of the system, data such as object
identification and recognition can
be used to enrich the quality of the
decision making capability of the
autonomous system.
The three processing regions
are bounded by three measures of
timeliness: real-time, near real-time,
and non real-time. The definition of
these three regions is soft, much
debated, and subjective based on
the processing environment and
the application. The following are
definitions that we will use regarding
situation awareness systems:
Real-Time
Computational
processing that is completed on
the video stream within the amount
of time that is required to generate
the image frames. The frequency
of this calculation will vary with the
frame rate of the imaging device. The
Figure 1 Potential Video Ingest System
image processor provides real-time
processing.
Near Real-Time Computational
processing that is completed within a
defined number of video frames. This
processing introduces a constant,
consistent delay into the final image
stream causing a time lag from the
capture of an event to the recognition
of the event in the processed video.
Acceptable near real-time performance
is determined by the amount of delay
that can be tolerated in the system while
still providing usable performance.
Near realtime activities are processed
in the visualization processor.
Non Real-Time Computational
processing that requires a longer
than acceptable delay for use as live
video. This processing activity is often
completed prior to video playback,
but can be incorporated into real-time
video taking advantage of the video
tracking information. Post processing
of video is a non-real-time activity.
Operation Scenario
Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 4
illustrate an UAV flyover scenario.
The scenario incorporates air, ground
moving and ground stationary targets
into a forested ground terrain. Five
imagers are used to create a field
of regard which covers about 180°
forward looking from the UAV. The
automatic tracker provides the
location of moving objects in the field
of view of the imager. These moving
targets are marked with solid white
box outlined with another white box.
While the boxes serve as a visual cue
to the operator, they can also be used
to cue information into other systems,
such as sense-and-avoid routines, or
object classification and identification
systems. Moving targets are the largest
threat to the operation of the system.
In Figure 2, the target tracker
has identified five possible moving
objects. Target one is an aircraft that
just entering the field of view of the left
most imager. Target two is a ground
target which is an encampment. Target
three is a ground vehicle. Targets four
and five are another ground based
encampment.
The tracker has limited information
about these targets. Are they threats,
are they friendly, is there a potential
for a collision with the UAV? These
are all decisions that the tracker
cannot make its own. However, the
tracker can provide vital information
to other systems which can make a
determination about the targets and
any potential threats to the UAV.
If we focus on the Target 1 in
Figure 2, this airborne target could be
a potential threat to the safe operation
of the UAV. The automated target
tracker can provide input to a senseand-avoid system on the UAV and the
target’s position, velocity and direction
can be used to determine if the two
aircraft are on a collision course. If the
aircrafts are on a collision course, the
continuous update input feed from the
video tracker could be used to ster the
UAV away to avoid the other aircraft.
Figure 3 and Figure 4 show the
aircraft passing safely in front of the
UAV flight path and out of the tracking
field of view.
A
more
sophisticated
application of automated tracking
technology,environmental monitoring,
assumes that the UAV’s senseand-avoid system has access to
information from other systems such
as Identification Friend or Foe (IFF),
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Figure 2 Tracking Scene 1
Figure 5 Aircraft deviation from expected
Automatic Dependent Surveillance
(ADS), Air-borne Warning and Control
System (AWACS), or even mission
planning, that would allow for the
identification of an unknown aircraft
and compare its expected flight path
to its actual flight path to predict the
expected behavior of the unknown
aircraft and to determine its potential
as a threat to the UAV.
Figure 5 shows a scenario where
an aircraft has deviated from its
expected flight path. The aircraft is
still a safe distance from the UAV and
no avoidance maneuver is necessary.
However,this type of environmental
monitoring enables the UAV to act
many reasons for an aircraft’s flight path
deviation, for example a maintenance
issue, the aircraft (target 1) must take a
defensive or offensive action, a change
in the mission plan, or something more
sinister such as jamming or spoofing.
Any of these could be a reason for a
UAV to alter its procedures to protect
its assets or alert the mission manager
for further action.
Video Tracker Technology
Target detection and tracking may
be divided into three main stages: preprocessing, target acquisition, and
target tracking. In the pre-processing
stage, verified mathematical algorithms
are employed to improve target
contrast and suppress background
clutter. The result of this enhancement
is an accurate separation of the target
image from “noise” in the scene for more
robust target acquisition and tracking.
Standard pre-processors use contrast
threshold processes to separate the
object from the background and have
three main categories:
• A “positive” (white-hot) preprocessor enhances positive contrast
targets. This function is performed
using
an
adaptively
calculated
threshold where intensities below the
threshold are transformed to a black
intensity level and intensities above
the threshold are unmodified. It is used
when the target has a higher intensity
than the local background and the
points of interest are the bright parts of
the target, such as when tracking hot
objects with a thermal imager.
• A “negative” (black-hot) preprocessor enhances negative contrast
targets. This function is the inverse of
the positive contrast pre-processor in
that it enhances low-intensity pixels
and sup-presses high-intensity pixels.
It is performed using anadaptively
calculated threshold where intensities
above the threshold are transformed
to a low (black) intensity level and
intensities below the threshold
transformed to high (white) intensities.
A black-hot pre-processor is used
when the target has a lower intensity
than the local background and the
points of interest are the dark parts
of the target, such as when tracking
hot objects with a thermal imager with
reversed polarity.
• A statistical pre-processor
enhances targets with both positive
and negative components. Here,
intensities
that
are
statistically
likely to be target intensity (and not
background intensity) are enhanced.
This function is performed using a
statistical measure of the video image
inside and outside a settable FieldofRegard (FoR) to differentiate between
target and background intensities.
The target pixels are transformed to
a white (high) intensity level and the
background pixels transformed to a
black (low) intensity level. A statistical
preprocessor has the advantage in
that it enhances both positive and
negative contrast targets as well as
those targets containing both positive
and negative contrasts with respect to
the local background. It also continues
to function during a contrast polarity
change. The second stage (target
detection) processor analyzes the
output from the pre-processor to
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identify objects within a selected area,
or window, in the video image which
meet user-defined target criteria.
Target detection from among these
identified objects may be prioritized
using
several
different
criteria,
including the target nearest to the
boresight or platform, and the largest
target. The third stage (tracking) is
where a selected object is identified as
the “target” and its behavior (velocity,
position and trajectory) is measured
and predicted. Objects (potential
targets) detected in the previous stage
are sorted based upon automatic or
manual means into a primary target
or one of several secondary targets.
One target (designated as the primary)
may be used for closed loop control
of a pan and tilt head or gimbal; here,
the behavior data is fed to the gimbal
control to automatically keep the target
in the center of the field of view of the
camera or at a fixed position offset from
the center if desired. Target selection
may be made automatically or without
user intervention or the operator can
choose which target to follow.
Advantages Video
Tracker Technology
Automated
target
tracker
technology is inserted in the beginning
of the image processing chain. It
processes images at the frame rate of
the imager. For objects that are moving
relative to the image scene, the video
tracker produces target location,
direction and velocity information.
The major advantage of this method
is that the moving target data is
available with low latency relative to
the object movement or entry into the
field of view of the imager that is being
processed by the tracker.An additional
benefit of an automated video tracker
is that is it capable of detecting objects
that would not be discernible to the
human eye. Improved target detection
provides the opportunity for quicker
responses to potential threats to the
system.The low light and contrast
image in Figure 6 has a moving image
Figure 6 Image has moving target
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Figure 7 Blue circle indicates location of
moving target
in it. The moving object is obscured by
clouds in the image.
Figure 7 indicates the location that
the moving target in the image. Without
outside knowledge of the location of
the target it would be impossible for
a human to identify the moving target
in the picture. The target’s distance
from the observer and its relative size
make it difficult to detect either with
the unaided eye or in a video image
without further enhancement.
Figure 8 demonstrates the effects
that contrast enhancement and
preprocessing can have on the video
image. In Figure 8,the object to be
tracked becomes distinct, although it
cannot be discerned from other high
contrast objects. The image in Figure
9 is the result of the application of
the movement detection. This final
processing has identified the moving
object from the nonmoving objects in
the image.
tuned for the environment that they are
operating in. Non–optimized solutions
can lead to either missed recognition
or high false alarm rates. Neither is
desirable, both can cause autonomous
to make bad decisions and recreate
operational failure of the system.GE
Intelligent Platforms’ line of automatic
target trackers are at the heart of a
wide range of commercial and military
systems where they provide the highest
performance solutions in the smallest,
fully environmentally proven hardware
packages. A range of proven highperformance algorithms, which can be
tailored for the application, allow real-
Figure 9 Movement detection and tracking
time detection and tracking of targets
within the video image which meet
user-determined selection criteria.
Other functionalities include real-time
video fusion and video stabilization.
GE’s SWaP (size, weight, power)
optimized ADEPT3000 target tracker
is designed for the cramped space of
small unmanned aerial vehicles and
man portable devices. Despite its
extremely small size, GE’s ADEPT3000
offers high performance single target
tracking with any standard definition
analog video signal.
Approximately the size of a quarter,
the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
ADEPT3000 operates as a stand alone
unit allowing great flexibility in board
Figure 8 Contrast enhancement and pre location.
processing
Disadvantages Video
Tracker Technology
Automated target tracking is not
the panacea to solve all difficulties
faced in dealing with unpredictable
events during autonomous operations.
Video target tracking is just one tool
that can help enable the closing of
the gap. Automated target trackers
are only as good as the input that they
are provided. Low contrast images
and obscured targets are difficult
environments for automated target
tracker operation. Automated target
tracking algorithms often must be
Conclusion
Automated
target
tracking
technology provides a method of
closing the gap between predictable
and
unpredictable
events
for
autonomous system operation. This
tool offers an excellent opportunity
to supplement the capability of an
autonomous aerial or ground system.
By taking advantage of imagers that
are already available in a UAV,and
providing critical information that can
be used to improve the performance
of the system, UAV designers can
measurably increase the probability of
mission success and survivability of
the platform.
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Turkey
Delayed to
Order F-35
Joint Strike
Fighter
Turkey that has been participating
as a consortium member in Joint Strike
Fighter (JSF) Project since 1999 in order
to meet New Generation Strike Fighter
need of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) had
decided to give order of 2 F-35A fighters
in 2012 first meeting of Defence Industry
Executive Committee. However due to
the cost increases in JSF Project, order
delays by USA and other joint countries
as well as poor development of F-35
fighter’s capacity to manoeuvre, Turkey
decided to delay its order once again so
as to reconsider it in 2014.
In the written statement made by the
Undersecretariat for Defence Industries,
it is stated that Turkey will continue its
activities in the JSF Project, in which
it is a participating member, and the
procurement of 100 F-35A fighters,
which had previously been planned, will
not be affected.
Except for Turkey; USA, Canada, UK,
Italy, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands
and Australia are the other member
countries of the Joint Strike Fighter
(JSF) Project. According to Canadian
Army statement Canada may cancel to
purchase F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as
well as Australia which has announced
to postpone its F-35 orders for a
duration of two years in last May.
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Aselsan Participated
in the Most
Prestigious
Environment Project
Being
an
environmental
friendly company in all of its
activities especially in terms
of
production
processes,
Aselsan participated in Carbon
Disclosure Project-CDP. CDP
is an international independent
organization,
which
globally
reports how Companies are better
able to understand how to protect
themselves from the impacts of
climate change. CDP is also on
the agenda of 655 institutional
investors managing $ 78 trillion
in assets. When determiming
investment
preferences,
the
companies participated in CDP
have become prominent.
This year, 17 institutions listed
in İstanbul Stock Exchange,
have applied to CDP, which is
amongst the most prestigious and
prevalent environmental initiatives
of the world. As per 2012
assessments, only two institutions
under industry category have
participated in the Project. As one
of the two institutions, Aselsan
has blazed a trail also on behalf of
the Turkish Defence Industry. The
“high score” achieved by Aselsan
has demonstrated its competence
on the integration of its advanced
environmental
consciousness
with corporate strategies.
Within the scope of CDP, how
Aselsan manages the risks of
climate change was reported. By
making evaluations on the climate
change risks towards business
area as well as the opportunities
emerged, the greenhouse gas
emission accounts were reviewed.
By way of disclosing the
greenhouse
gas
emissions
and climate change strategies
to communities and investors
through CDP, companies and
governments are able to achieve
performance
improvements
by setting carbon emission
reduction targets. Such data
is disclosed to large masses
© Aselsan
including institutional investors,
companies,
policy
decision
makers, government institutions
and academicians.
Aselsan has also proven
its respect to environment and
its employees with previously
obtained ISO 14001 Environment
Management System and OHSAS
18001 Occupational Health and
Safety
Management
System
certifications.
Continuing
its
presence with leading practices
in nationally and internationally
accomplished initiatives in terms
of sustainability and climate
change, Aselsan keeps on its
studies to pass a liveable world to
the next generations.
Teknokent Defence
Industry Cluster: Bridge
between University,
Industry and New Markets
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Burcu Uslu Özdemir
TSSK Cluster Manager
TSSK Executive Board Member and
Secretary General
Founded in 2010, Teknokent
Defence Industry Cluster, TSSK,
represents the high technology
cluster of defence, aerospace and
security industries operating in
Ankara, Turkey. At present, it consists
of 70 member companies operating
in ODTU Teknokent, but intends
to embrace all defence industry
companies of the region, that are
developing high-tech innovations in
the sector. TSSK has close relations
with the Undersecretariat for Defence
Industries (SSM), and is a member
of Defence Industry Manufacturers
Association (SASAD) as well as the
Turkish Defence Alliance.
Turkey is ranked as the 15th among
the global top military spenders and the
6th in Europe, accounting for 1.1% of
global military spending for 2011. The
defence budget for the 2012 fiscal year
indicates a 7.4% increase over 2011
defence spending, comprising 1.3% of
the GDP of the country for 2012. Thus,
defence industry is considered to be the
driving force of the technology base of
the country and is expected to become
the key driver of Turkish economy in
a couple of years. Turkish defence
industry has been experiencing a rapid
growth in recent years, owing to the
government’s strategic decision to
reduce the country’s dependence on
foreign procurement, to increase the
production of indigenous solutions,
products and systems for use by the
Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), as well
as to attain technological competence
in the market. As of today, more than
50% of the TAF’s needs are satisfied
through domestic supplies. The
expectations are that this growth
can only be sustained through
high technology development via
investment of funds along with human
factor for research and development
activities. To this end, Turkish Armed
Forces, the SSM and Ministry of
National Defence have allocated
considerable
financial
resources,
around 50 million USD on annual basis,
for high technology R&D activities to
improve the country’s technological
infrastructure.
Consequently,
the
SSM issued a Defence R&D Road
Map for the optimization of allocated
resources, determined and prioritized
R&D projects in line with the needs
and objectives of the main system
projects that will involve collaboration
of industries, universities and research
organizations.
TSSK, located at ODTU Teknokent
at the heart of the capital of Turkey
and surrounded by the region’s
most renowned university as well as
various research centers many of
which focus on defence technologies,
hosts many companies that perform
intensive R&D activities for defence
industry. The majority of these
companies are privately owned,
high-tech SMEs operating in the
development of solutions for manned
and unmanned vehicles; energetic
materials, advanced materials, CBRN
technologies, protective vehicle and
material technologies; human-machine
interface; cryptography, coding and
encryption, electronic intelligence
systems; modeling and simulation,
simulation systems; communication,
electronic and information systems;
sensors and electronic systems,
datalink technologies as well as the
various related engineering services
such as testing, calibration, modeling
and
maintenance.
The
top-tier
contractors of the Turkish defence
industry, ASELSAN, HAVELSAN and
TAI, also have their R&D departments
located at Teknokent and they are
the members of the cluster, TSSK,
as well. Owing to the abundance of
technology developing, high quality
companies collaborating with the
top-tier contractors and among
themselves, ODTU Teknokent is a
center of attraction and TSSK is a
house for national and international
defence companies.
TSSK
is
commissioned
to
contribute to the development of
the cluster members by furthering
the cooperation within and outside
the cluster, promoting its members’
competencies and know-how in
the international market, facilitating
university-industry collaboration as well
as through intensive communication
and information sharing with national
policy makers. The driving force of the
cluster is the R&D projects stimulated
by the synergy between university,
industry and research. The cluster
members employ around 1000 R&D
personnel and currently, there are
approximately 150 active R&D projects
being conducted for defence industry
by the members of TSSK.
Currently, the cluster is financed
by the Turkish Ministry of Economy for
a $3.6 million project, which aims at
internationalization and improving the
export capabilities of the cluster with
its members by creating sustainable,
competitive advantage for the firms
in defense sector. Within the scope
of this project, TSSK members are
trained and certified on technical
necessities, managerial and marketing
issues; the cluster attends international
trade shows and fairs, visits other
high-technology defence cluster(s),
organizes trade missions to countries
of interest and hosts foreign trade
missions made to the cluster in search
for opportunities of cooperation.
International
markets
and
competition have become more and
more important for the companies.
Majority of TSSK companies are
currently exporting technology to
various countries in the world and
envision expanding these export
activities even more. Assisting member
companies in their export activities
and networking are amongst TSSK’s
top priorities. With all the support and
incentives by the government and
from abroad, ODTU Teknokent and
TSSK offer unique opportunities to
companies strengthen and to improve
their positions in domestic and
international markets, especially the
Middle East and Middle Asia countries.
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Allied Wire & Cable Supplies Military
Wire to Turkish Defence Market
Allied Wire & Cable is a specialty
manufacturer and distributor of
electrical wire and cable, specializing
in military products. It is the largest
stocking distributor of QPL-approved
mil spec wire in the world, and has been
exporting its products internationally
for more than twenty years.
President and co-owner of Allied
Wire & Cable, Tim Flynn, and Vice
President of Sales, Tony Spina visited
Turkey in December as members of a
United States Aerospace and Defence
Trade Mission. While in Turkey,
they met with U.S. Ambassador
Ricciardone and U.S. Undersecretary
for International Trade Sanchez, as
well as Turkish Deputy Secretary
of Trade Cemalettin Damlacı, and
Undersecretaries for the Turkish
Defence Industries Köse, Altınok, and
Özbek. During briefings from both
American and Turkish representatives,
Flynn and Spina learned a lot about
the Turkish culture, trade, and Defence
requirements.
One of the highlights of the trade
mission was speaking with customers
and potential customers about how
Allied Wire & Cable can help meet
their wire and cable requirements.
Allied has seen steady growth in the
Turkish market over the past several
years, and continues to expand its
international business. It is clear that
there is high demand in the Turkish
market for the products Allied Wire
& Cable supplies. Because Turkey is
located at the crossroads of Europe,
Asia, and the Middle East, there is also
great potential for the Turkish market
to distribute wire and cable products
to the entire region.
Wire and cable meeting military
specifications are some of the most
sought after products for the Turkish
Defence industry. Allied Wire & Cable
is an approved export distributor for
the largest Qualified Products List
(QPL) mil-spec manufacturers in
the nation, and stocks an extensive
inventory of M16878, M22759, M17,
M27500, M5086, M3432, M13486,
M10603, M81044, and many other milspec wire and cable products. These
are the same QPL materials Allied Wire
© Defence Turkey
& Cable supplies to the United States
Government, BAE, Boeing, Lockheed
Martin, and more.
In addition to housing the largest
inventory of QPL-approved mil spec
cables in the world, Allied provides
a broad range of UL/CSA approved
wire and cable, aircraft, automotive,
and thermocouple material to the
Turkish market. Allied also distributes
a huge range of “Made in USA”
cables from popular American brands
such as Raychem, Alpha, Belden,
General Cable/Carol Brand, and all
other major US manufacturers. Low
cost equivalents are available for
manufacturer part numbers as well.
Custom cable is available to meet
the requirements of especially unique
or challenging applications, such
as those often encountered in the
aerospace and Defence industries.
Allied Wire & Cable can manufacture
cables with full QPL approval to meet
difficult environmental requirements
common in military applications. Allied
also offers low order minimums, quick
turnaround times, and cable design
services to make ordering custom
cable a viable option for a wide range
of applications.
Allied Wire & Cable prides itself on
providing high quality products to meet
any wire and cable requirement, from
cables built to military specifications,
to “Made in USA” brands, and custom
cables.
With more than two decades of
exporting experience, Allied experts
understand the logistics of shipping
overseas, and will complete all
paperwork accurately to ensure wire
and cable reaches its customers on
time, without delays in customs.
Allied Wire & Cable looks forward
to serving the needs of the Turkish
aerospace and Defence industries
with its extensive inventory and
international trade expertise, and to
continue building upon its already
thriving business relationships in
Turkey.
Thanks to feedback from customers
and the orders Allied Wire & Cable
has been receiving, the company is
also looking into opening a stocking
facility in Turkey. Allied is excited
about the opportunity to service the
growing demand for its wire and cable
products.
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© Defence Turkey
FNSS Certified its Defence Industry
Suppliers’ Quality
FNSS certified its suppliers having high performances. The number of suppliers, who were certified until today,
increased to 38 from 15.
Continuing to certify its suppliers
having high performances, FNSS
increased the number of certified
© Defence Turkey
Mr. Bilal Aktaş, Industrialization Department
Head, Undersecretariat for Defence Industries
suppliers to 38 by granting 23 more
certificates.
At his speech at the certification
ceremony, Bilal Aktaş – Industrialization
Department Head, Undersecretariat
for Defence Industries mentioned
that its Department has been working
to achieve integration with the
increasingly globalized world since its
establishment and has also introduced
new implementation methods.
Aktaş reminded the 4 key elements
in industrialization strategy as per
2012-2016 Strategic Plan of the
Undersecretariat for Defence Industries
namely industrial depth, technological
competence, exportation and logistics
support. Aktaş asked for the companies
to become members of industrialization
portal of the Undersecretariat in order
for them to share their capabilities and
thus new business opportunities will
be generated for these companies.
Bilal Aktaş remarked that the
Undersecretariat will be in need of
sub-industry companies and SMEs to
perform projects at defence industry
in 2013 and such companies will be
able to apply to the Undersecretariat
in terms of their machinery, equipment
and financing needs.
Mithat Ertuğ: “We initiated
the first clustering activity
at the defence sector”
© Defence Turkey
Mr. Mithat Ertuğ, OSSA Chairman of the
Board
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Mithat Ertuğ - Chairman of OSSA
Defence and Aviation Cluster delivered
a speech at the ceremony and said
that they initiated the first clustering
activity in 2007 comprising SMEs at
Ostim Organized Zone and vicinity
performing activities in defence
industry.
Ertuğ stated that the companies
under OSSA are not competitors of
each other and that they will compete
with China, India, Brazil and Mexico.
He also mentioned that they believe
the business volume will increase more
within the next two years.
Nail Kurt: “The Company
Success should be brought
into the forefront”
In his speech at the certification
ceremony, FNSS General Manager Nail
Kurt said that their enthusiasm is twoway; one is to feature the company
success, the other is to achieve this
with suppliers. Kurt stated that the final
objective in this process is to achieve
integration between SMEs and subindustry as per the Strategic Plan
of the Undersecretariat for Defence
Industries and added that they, as
FNSS, are making efforts to realize
sustainable successes by improving
communications with suppliers in this
respect.
Affirming the need for an
investment
in
technological
infrastructure, Kurt emphasized that
FNSS strongly supports the policies
Industries. Nail Kurt referred to the
business amounting to 300 million $
realized in Saudi Arabia and stated
that nearly 51-52 million $ of this
business was spent outside Turkey.
He added that this amount could be
spent in Turkey with lower costs. Nail
Kurt remarked that the sub-industry
companies are required to perform
more significant and larger volume of
businesses by spreading the technical
competence.
FNSS General Manager Nail Kurt
stated that their target is to award
5-6 billion $ contracts and said: “2-3
large volume projects will be realized
by the Undersecretariat for Defence
Industries, the figures are not clear yet
but a land system project amounting
to nearly 1 billion $ has emerged.
Within this scope, the companies at
Ostim will have great deal of business
opportunities.”
“When I see the potential in the
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sector, my enthusiasm and motivation
increases. We cannot fill this potential
with ourselves only, this can only be
achieved together with the suppliers.”
said Kurt and added that sub-industry
is essential and the number of
companies at defence sector is to be
increased.
Haluk Bulucu: “We should achieve
together with our partners.”
At his speech, FNSS Business
Development and Strategy Director
Haluk Bulucu reminded that they
organized a conference with 300
participants in 2010 and stated that
in this “Solution Partners Conference”
they, as FNSS, put forward a vision
“if you want to become a global
company, you should achieve this with
your solution partners”. He stated that
they are taking modest steps forward
and one of the elements of systematic
steps is to certify the suppliers and
look to the future together with them.
Bulucu also added that they aim to
take steps forward together with
the suppliers in line with the vision
Industries.
Hakan Yağcı: “The selection
and assessment were made
under 4 main phases.”
FNSS Quality Assurance Supervisor
Hakan Yağcı gave detailed information
on the supplier approval certification.
“We initiated certification studies at
the second quarter of 2011 and the
main objective of these studies is to
increase efficiency and reduce costs
as well as to be competitive in the
involved programs”. Yağcı stated that
the supplier selection and assessment
methods are carried out under 4 main
phases at FNSS and said: “One of
them is pre-assessment. Following the
pre-assessment, once the predefined
criteria and the related scores are met,
then commercial relations will begin
with such companies. The delivery
performance monitoring takes place
under the 3rd phase. The monthly
reporting is also made under 3 phases;
these are the inspection of the delivered
materials at its place of origin, quality
control inspection at FNSS entry point
and the delivery schedule. The 4th and
final phase is to complete the studies
which are the basis of certification.
In this respect, the performance and
inspection scores of the companies
are calculated as per the specific
© Defence Turkey
Mr. Haluk Bulucu, Director at FNSS
Defence Systems
coefficients and a categorization is
made accordingly”. Hakan Yağcı said
FNSS believes that all suppliers are its
stakeholders.
Following the speeches, the
certificates were delivered to those
entitled companies. The certified
companies are as follows; ›› Anales
›› Arıkan Kliko ve Mak. San. A.Ş.
›› Bayrak Lastik A.Ş.
›› Bereket Çanta
›› Bil Plas Reklamcılık
›› Eko Savunma ve Sanayi Ltd. Şti.
›› Ela Tek Plastik
›› ES kazan
›› Gate Elektronik San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.
›› Güçsan Grup Mekanik Grup
›› Hidrolik Sanayi Takım Tezgahları
›› Kapsan Elektrik İnşaat
›› Ege Teknik
›› Özünver
›› Özben Metal
›› Öznur Makina
›› Özsan Oto Yedek Parça
›› Parsan Makina Parçaları
›› SDT uzay ve savunma tekn.
›› Ketsan Teknik Makina
›› Teknokal Elektrik
›› SİSAN
›› Yare Torna
ANKA
Completed
Acceptance
Tests
“ANKA” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
System, developed by Turkish Aerospace
Industries Inc. (TAI) and the flight tests of which
have continued since 30th December 2010,
completed the acceptance testing process
with the flights made on 20th January 2013 and
22ndJanuary 2013. The 18+ hour long test flight
commenced on January 20th at 9:05 am and
concluded with automatic landing on January
21st at 3:15 am, after successful demonstration
of full endurance and 200 km data link range
performances. During Konya-bound range fight
made under the wind reaching to 40-45 kts, a
connection and coordination was established
with Esenboğa Airport over data link.
During the acceptance process, which
has been in progress since October 2012,
nearly 130 different ground and flight tests
were successfully accomplished with the
participation of representatives from the
Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM)
and Air Forces Command. Following the tests,
the military and defence officials decided ANKA
UAV’s mission readiness and concluded the
acceptance tests.
Since its first flight in December 2010,
ANKA UAV system has accumulated more
than 140 flight hours, during which flight
control, data link, propulsion, fuel, landing
gear, environmental control, ice protection and
electrical systems, as well as mission systems
including EO/IR payload, ATC radio and data
recorder were tested at altitudes reaching
26000ft. Autopilot, navigation, automatic
loiter pattern and ATOLS capabilities were
demonstrated throughout the flight envelope
under severe weather conditions.
The contract negotiations are already
underway with SSM for the initial mass
production of ten ANKA systems for the Turkish
Air Force and expected to be completed in
midst 2013.
Havelsan is
Awarded for its
Ship Information
Distribution System
© Havelsan
Havelsan was granted with
the
“Commercialization
of
Innovation” award in Innovation
& Creativity competition of the
Turkish Electronics Industry
Association (TESİD) with its
indigenous
product
Ship
Information Distribution System
(GBDS).
The award ceremony of
11th Innovation & Creativity
competition was held at Boğaziçi
University with the participation
of Dr. Tayfun Acarer – President of
Information and Communication
Technologies Authority. Havelsan
was granted several awards in
previous years by TESİD and this
year it was represented by its
Naval Combat Systems Group
with its indigenous product Ship
(GBDS). Havelsan’s product
was selected for the finals
amongst other industrial and
communication giants of Turkey.
After the final assessment
made
by
grand
jury,
Havelsan’s Ship Information
Distribution System (GBDS)
stood
out
amongst
its
competitors
and
rewarded
with
of
Innovation” award.
The
Ship
Information
Distribution System, which is
fully designed and developed
by Havelsan engineers through
R&D studies and used in
all new ship projects of the
Naval Forces,
enables the
transfer of proper and in time
information redundantly that is
needed for ship management
by functioning as a service
provider for modern combat
ships. Until today Havelsan,
out of such product portfolio,
has designed the Ship Data
Distribution System (GVDS) for
National Ship Project (MİLGEM);
the Ship Information Distribution
System for Ney Type Patrol
Boat Project and Submarine
(DBDS) for New Type Submarine
Project. This product shall also
take part in standard in new
ship construction projects to be
initiated in the near future.
This award of TESİD is of
great importance for Havelsan
in two respects. It is proven out
that Havelsan has the required
“Innovation”, which is considered
as a prerequisite to get a share
in the shrinking defence industry
market as well as to head towards
exportation. More importantly,
the
of
Innovation” award is considered
as the evidence of Havelsan’s
commercial
success.
The
Product
Manager
Hayrettin
Karabudak, who has significant
contributions in this success,
received the plaque on behalf of
Havelsan.
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Lockheed Martin’s SMSS Unmanned
Autonomous Vehicle Operates Via
Satellite Control
Lockheed Martin
completed a
successful demonstration at Camp
Grayling, Mich., recently in which
its Squad Mission Support System
(SMSS) was being controlled via
satellite from more than 200 miles
away.
The SMSS vehicle conducted
several
battlefield
surveillance
operations while being controlled
beyond line-of-sight via satellite from
the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive
Research,
Development
and
Engineering Center in Warren, Mich.
“These demonstrations allow the
Army development communities to
better understand capabilities available
to them with SMSS right now,” said
Joe Zinecker, Director of Combat
Maneuver Systems at Lockheed
Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “We
are showing our customers innovative
ways to employ SMSS vehicles in
missions while demonstrating that we
are ready to move from technology
development to fielding these valuable
and mature new capabilities.”
The demonstration proved that
the combination of autonomy, vehicle
mobility, surveillance sensors and
satellite communications can provide
a means of battlefield situational
awareness while keeping soldiers out of
harm’s way. During the demonstration,
SMSS was equipped with a Gyrocam
9M Tactical Surveillance Sensor
and a General Dynamics SATCOM
Technologies
“SATCOM-On-theMove” system.
SMSS incorporated an adjustableheight mast with the Gyrocam
9M, acquiring on-the-move, highresolution electro-optical and thermal
video. In testing, the SMSS movement
and sensor functions were controlled
from the remote station via teleoperation,
demonstrating
control
of the vehicle through the satellite.
In another simulated mission, the
operator provided a pre-planned
route and SMSS autonomy allowed
navigation with minimal operator
intervention, while other autonomous
functions, such as follow-me, go-topoint and retro-traverse, were also
demonstrated.
Lockheed
Martin
conducted
several demonstrations of the SMSS
for the U.S. Army during 2012,
outfitting the vehicle with different
mission equipment packages to
conduct
logistics,
counter-IED,
mobility, dismounted-soldier support,
and reconnaissance, surveillance and
target acquisition. Four SMSS vehicles
were successfully tested by soldiers in
Afghanistan in 2012 as transport and
logistics vehicles to lighten the load for
soldiers in combat operations.
“The concept of an affordable
common mobility platform coupled
with specialized mission equipment
packages is the right answer for UGVs
to reduce development, production
and sustainment costs, while providing
maximum flexibility for commanders,”
Zinecker said. “SMSS continues to
demonstrate its readiness to move
into the next phase of the Army’s UGV
roadmap.”
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire
Control is a 2012 recipient of the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Award for
performance excellence. The Malcolm
Baldrige Award represents the highest
honor that can be awarded to American
companies for their achievements
in leadership, strategic planning,
customer relations, measurement,
analysis,
workforce
excellence,
operations and results.
Headquartered
in
Bethesda,
Md., Lockheed Martin is a global
security and aerospace company
that employs about 120,000 people
worldwide and is principally engaged
in the research, design, development,
manufacture,
integration,
and
sustainment of advanced technology
systems, products, and services. The
Corporation’s net sales for 2012 were
$47.2 billion.
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Rolls-Royce Introduces the Future of
Offshore Vessel Command and Control
Rolls-Royce, the global power
systems company, today announced
that an offshore vessel, currently
under construction for Simon Møkster
Shipping, will be the first in the world
to feature the new highly innovative
Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge solution representing a step change in vessel
operation.
As offshore ships have become
more technologically advanced and
able to perform more highly specialised
duties, their bridges, as the command
centres for the ship, have become
more complex.
The Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge
has been designed to deal with this
issue based on both our own research
and feedback from customers. It
simplifies the range of controls, panels
and displays for the various onboard
systems,
provides
significantly
improved ergonomics and easier
operation which enhances operator
and crew safety and improves task
efficiency. The bridge layout can also
be tailored to meet the needs of a
number of different vessels.
Anders Almestad, Rolls-Royce,
President – Offshore, said: “Working
aboard ships in the offshore sector
can be hugely demanding on crews,
where concentration, visibility and
rapid response are essential for safe
operations. The Unified Bridge was
developed after an in-depth study of
bridge system requirements for the
navigation and operation of vessels
focused on ergonomic design, safety,
performance and simplicity.”
Daniel
Scavuzzo,
Astilleros
Gondan, Commercial Manager, said:
“The Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge is
a breakthrough development which
fits with the philosophy of Gondan
Shipyard. Our aim is to identify and
understand our customer’s needs to
supply integral solutions and services
to meet their requirements. Providing
the “shipbuilder’s point of view” to
this new development has been a very
constructive experience for us. Our
work hand-in-hand with the designer
and the ship owner has been key in
delivering this successful project.”
The first commercial installation of
the Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge solution
will be on a UT 776 WP platform
supply vessel (PSV), currently being
built in Spain by the yard Astilleros
Gondan, for Norwegian ship-owner
Simon Møkster Shipping. The vessel
design with the striking wave piercing
bow, main systems and equipment are
all provided by Rolls-Royce.
On completion in 2014 the
vessel will be chartered by Statoil for
operations in the North Sea and the
High North.
Indra Completes Development of its
Maritime Patrol Light Aircraft
The P2006T MRI successfully
passed a series of test flights off the
Mediterranean coast and in the North
Sea (Scotland) that started in March
2012. The system’s performance was
found to be excellent even in adverse
meteorological conditions.
In these exercises Indra tested the
combined operational capacities of
the FLIR Systems large-format, latestgeneration, high-definition electrooptical camera, the SELEX Galileo
Seaspray 5000E radar and the AIS
vessel identification system.
All the information compiled by
these sensors is displayed by means
the Indra ISIS mission system installed
on board the aircraft.
The results showed that the
reconnaissance
and
intelligence
systems of the aircraft are capable of
effectively covering an area of 3,000
to 5,000 square miles. Indra adapted
the system to precisely correlate the
information captured by the vessel
identification system (AIS) with the data
facilitated by the radar. The system
was able to detect small targets and
extract radar images (ISAR) from
them, enabling the type of vessel to be
determined.
The aircraft operated with a link
to a control centre on the ground,
which may be a dedicated radio link
or via satellite. The tests checked
its performance, enabling real-time
monitoring of the mission and even
the operation of the onboard systems
and sensors from the ground support
station.
Indra chose the P2006T to develop
this advanced solution because it is a
low-consumption, easily-maintained,
silent, easy to pilot and well-tested
platform (more than 160 units have
been sold). The P2006T is a twinengine, high wing aircraft with a length
of 8.6 metres.
Once the tests were completed, the
P2006T MRI was ready to enter into
service and fly maritime surveillance
missions from the coastline to 150
miles out to sea. The aircraft can
remain in a patrol zone for 3.5 to 4.5
hours.
The system is designed to replace
the medium-sized helicopters and
light aerial platforms used by some
coastguards. These types of aircraft
do not usually have sensors and only
the most advanced ones have electrooptical systems. For this reason, the
capacities provided by Indra’s P2006T
MRI system are vastly superior. The
Indra aircraft also uses conventional
fuel to fly, significantly reducing its
operating costs, and it can take off
from and land on short, non-asphalt
runways.
The next phase of the project is to
convert the aircraft into an Optionally
Piloted
Vehicle
(OPV),
which,
when legislation permits the use of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in
controlled airspace, will enable it to fly
without a pilot.
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Cassidian’s New
TRS-4D Naval Radar
Demonstrates its
Capability
Airbus
Military
Delivers first
two C295 to
Kazakhstan
Radar for F125 frigates successfully accepted by the customers
New detection options for navy ships
The German Navy’s F125
class frigates will be equipped
with Cassidian’s newly developed
TRS-4D naval radar, which will
provide them with reconnaissance
and surveillance capabilities
that are unique worldwide.
Cassidian, the defence and
security division of EADS, has
now successfully passed the
first factory acceptance test for
the radar system carried out
by the customers, the German
procurement authority BAAINBw
and Blohm + Voss Naval. The
first unit, which will equip a landbased system in Wilhelmshaven,
is planned to be delivered next
month. The first TRS-4D for
the “Baden-Württemberg” lead
ship is scheduled for delivery in
August.
“This new radar guarantees
high operational availability on
long-term missions and also
improves the survivability of navy
ships,” explains Elmar Compans,
head of the Sensors & Electronic
Warfare unit at Cassidian.
TRS-4D enables ships ranging
from patrol vessels to frigates to
carry out the various detection
tasks required of ship-borne,
medium-range radar systems
both in the open sea as well as
in complex coastal zones with a
high target density. Compared to
conventional radars, this more
accurate, faster system now
tackles a wider-than-ever scope
of targets, e.g. for protection
against asymmetric attacks.
The new radar is based on
a unique system concept. In
contrast to any other systems
available on the market, the TRS4D is the first surveillance radar to
make full use of the advantages
of AESA technology (AESA =
Active Electronically Scanned
Array), which is based on multiple
independent emitters. This results
in a detection performance that is
unprecedented worldwide. The
core element of AESA technology
as it is used here is a multitude
of Cassidian-made transmit and
receive modules based on the
very latest gallium nitride (GaN)
technology. GaN has unique
electronic features such as
high power efficiency, and also
allows for very efficient industrial
production processes. Cassidian
is the European leader in this
technology.
The TRS-4D system concept
provides navies and coast guards
with all of the benefits of AESA
technology, which up to now
had only been available in very
expensive systems. Cassidian is
now also making this technology
competitive for medium-sized
surveillance and target acquisition
radars. For the F125 frigates
the system will be deployed in
a version with four fixed arrays.
However, a version with a single,
mechanically rotating antenna is
also available.
The four F125 frigates of
the
“Baden-Württemberg”
class should replace the F122
“Bremen” class ships from 2016.
© Defence Turkey
Kazakhstan has taken delivery of the first
two C295 transport aircraft that it ordered
last year, marking Airbus Military´s entry into
the CIS regional market.
The aircraft, the first two on firm
contract and a further six on options to be
progressively confirmed in the coming years,
were formally handed over in Sevilla before
the ferry flights, via Astana, to Almaty, where
they will be based.
They were earlier technically accepted
in Seville by a combined team of
Kazspetsexport, the Kazakhstan Ministry of
Defence, and the Kazakhstan Air Forces.
Both aircraft will be used in support of
transport missions throughout the nation´s
vast territory. The purchase contract
additionally covers the related service
support package for spare parts and ground
support equipment.
Airbus Military Senior Vice President
Commercial, Antonio Rodríguez-Barberán,
said: “We greatly appreciate the high level
of professionalism and strong commitment
shown by the relevant Kazakh institutions
in ensuring the smooth and mutually
rewarding execution of this agreement.It is
a great pleasure to welcome the Air Forces
of Kazakhstan into the worldwide family of
C295 operators and we are committed to
providing the required level of support for our
new customer for many years to come.”
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MTU
Maintenance
wins contract
to maintain
Southwest’s
CFM56-3
engines
MTU Maintenance Canada and Southwest
Airlines, the world’s largest low-cost carrier,
have signed an exclusive long term agreement
for the maintenance of Southwest’s CFM56-3
engines. “This agreement is a significant step
forward for MTU Maintenance,” said Dr. Stefan
Weingartner, President and CEO Commercial
Maintenance at MTU Aero Engines. “We are
very proud to be cooperating with Southwest
Airlines on this important project.”
With its exclusive Boeing 737 fleet,
Southwest Airlines is one of the largest CFM56
operators in the world and an important
customer for MTU Maintenance. Under the
agreement, MTU Maintenance will provide
Southwest Airlines with a Total Engine Care
(TEC®) program in order to generate additional
value for the airline’s CFM56-3 engines. “MTU
Maintenance will collaborate with Southwest
on the management of technical, material and
commercial challenges related to the CFM563 engines for our Boeing 737 Classic fleet,”
said Bill Tiffany, Senior Director Supply Chain
Management at Southwest. “Together, we
have designed and executed a closed loop
material solution and anticipate significant
cost savings over the life of the agreement
compared to a traditional maintenance
program.”
MTU Maintenance Canada focuses on the
repair and overhaul of CF6-50 and CFM563 engines. The wholly-owned MTU affiliate
also provides specialized support for engine
accessories. After a significant increase of
its accessory repair business, the company
has opened a new Accessory Repair Centre
(A.R.C.) this June 2012, allowing the company
to offer customers increased accessory repair
capabilities and a wider product portfolio.
The agreement with Southwest Airlines also
covers the engine accessory repairs for its
CFM56-3 engines.
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Eurofighter Typhoons
in Austria complete
5,000 flying hours
Since entry into service, 15
Eurofighter Typhoons of the
Austrian Armed Forces have
completed a total of 5,000 flying
hours. In the last few years
Austria has successfully used
this European interceptor aircraft
several times for air surveillance
duties and for safeguarding its
territorial sovereignty.
On behalf of the Eurofighter
consortium and its Eurofighter
Partner Companies, Eurofighter
CEO,
Enzo
Casolini,
congratulated
the
Austrian
Armed Forces for this impressive
performance: “We would like to
thank our competent partners
in Austria for the excellent
cooperation and adhere to our
common objective, to optimise
the proven cooperation over the
next years.”
In recent weeks, Eurofighter
Typhoons fulfilled their mission
during numerous international
events in Austria. For example,
they were supervising the
airspace during the Alpine
Ski World Championship in
Schladming/Styria as well as
during the World Economic Forum
2013 in Davos/Switzerland. As
part of the airspace surveillance
operation “Daedalus 2013” the
aircraft ensured that no unknown
aircraft over Austrian territory
could approach the conference
in Switzerland.
Since entry into service in
2004, more than 350 Eurofighter
Typhoons have been delivered to
six nations: Germany, the United
Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Austria
and Saudi Arabia. In December
2012, Oman became the
seventh customer and ordered a
total of twelve aircraft. Currently,
Eurofighter Typhoon is in service
at 20 operational units and up
to now, the whole fleet has
completed more than 160,000
flying hours worldwide.
Eurofighter Typhoon is the
most advanced new generation
multi-role/swing-role
combat
aircraft
currently
available
on the world market. Seven
nations (Germany, the United
Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Austria,
Saudi Arabia and Oman) have
already ordered the Eurofighter
Typhoon. With 719 aircraft under
contract and 571 on order,
Eurofighter Typhoon is currently
the largest military procurement
programme in Europe. Its high
technology strengthens the
position of European aerospace
industry in the international
market. The programme secures
more than 100,000 jobs in
400 companies. Eurofighter
Jagdflugzeug GmbH manages
the programme on behalf of the
Eurofighter Partner Companies
Alenia Aermacchi/Finmeccanica,
BAE Systems and Cassidian in
Germany and Spain, which are
the most important aviation and
aerospace companies in Europe
with a turnover of about 123.2
billion euro (2011).
DEFENCE TURKEY
68
ISSUE 41/2013
Amsafe’s Tarian Rpg Armour System
Makes Middle Eastern Debut At Idex
2013, Abu Dhabi
AmSafe Bridport Ltd is displaying
Tarian for the first time in the Middle
East at IDEX. This revolutionary,
lightweight and flexible rocket
propelled grenade (RPG) armour
system has been fitted to a PARS
6x6, in collaboration with Turkey’s
(Defense Systems Inc.) Tarian
technology has been developed
in response to a requirement from
the military for a lightweight, higher
performance and more robust
alternative to traditional, heavy, metal
bar armour RPG protection systems.
The core element of the Tarian RPG
defeat mechanism is an extremely
strong textile net manufactured
from high-tenacity fibres. Tarian
nets are attached to vehicles using
innovative flexible mounts that
enable the system to withstand harsh
vehicle operating conditions without
sustaining
damage.
Compared
with traditional bar armour RPG
protection, Tarian provides improved
protection performance and, being
significantly lighter, enables vehicles
to operate more efficiently.
Neal McKeever, Sales & Marketing
Director at AmSafe Bridport Ltd, said:
“AmSafe Bridport is delighted to be
showing Tarian at IDEX for the first
time. The development work that
we have undertaken with FNSS to
showcase Tarian on the PARS 6x6
vehicle demonstrates the adaptability
of Tarian to fit a wide variety of vehicle
types. The cooperative relationship
that AmSafe has developed with
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FNSS has successfully created an
integrated RGP protection system to
FNSS’s platform.”
On 7 February 2013, AmSafe
Bridport Ltd announced that it
has secured a contract to supply
Tarian RPG armour systems to
the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The contract award followed an
international
competition
where
Tarian was one of three solutions
down-selected for a programme of
rigorous testing and trials, including
live firing and vehicle field trials. This
latest contract includes the supply of
several hundred Tarian RPG armour
system kits for a variety of vehicle
types that are currently in service in
Afghanistan. The contract is valued at
£10.6m ($17m) and will be completed
by the end of 2013.
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The Alhd Canberra, Named In Australia
The naming ceremony of first
Canberra class ALHD took place on
15th. February in the facilities of BAE
Systems in Williamstown. The ship,
mostly built in Navantia-Ferrol arrived
Melbourne in October 2012. Navantia
and BAE Systems are jointly building 2
amphibious ships for the RAN
The ceremony hosted the Prime
Minister of Australia, the Ministers of
Defence and Chiefs of Navy of both
Australia and Spain, as well as the
President of Navantia and the CEO of
BAE Systems Australia. The ceremony
also counted with the special
attendance of Mrs. Vickie Coates,
the launching lady, who emotionally
reminded the launching of “Canberra”
in Ferrol.
The speakers highlighted the strong
links of collaboration, institutional and
industrial, between both countries. To
end the ceremony, a new MoU was
signed between Spain and Australia.

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