Israel to send 4 HERONS to Turkey as means to apologies

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Israel says sorry and send planes to Turkey

Israel is set to send four 'Heron' drone airplanes to Turkey in August according to military sources in Ankara, Army Radio reported Wednesday.

According to the report, senior Turkish military officials visited Israel recently to negotiate the closing details of the deal.

A travel advisory warning Israelis not to travel to Turkey which was issued after the flotilla incident was rescinded on Tuesday.

The Counter Terrorism Bureau stated that the situation in Turkey has eased up and Israelis were no longer in direct danger.

 

[SQ8]

Good trade.. two lives for a UAV.

 

[Reaper What You Sow]

I applaud Turkey for being a practical nation.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I applaud Turkey for being a practical nation.

yes ... it works out well

 

[Jigs]

This deal was already in place before all this happened. We ordered 10 got 6 and now are receiving the rest of our order. These were payed for btw.

 

[Jigs]

Some technical info on our version of the heron:

Turkey operates a special version of the Heron, which utilizes Turkish designed and manufactured electro-optical sub-systems. Turkish Herons use the ASELSAN of Turkey designed and manufactured ASELFLIR-300T Airborne Thermal Imaging and Targeting System. This is the same FLIR system used by the AgustaWestland TAI T-129 Attack helicopter and the TIHA UCAV. Its advantages include the following:

* High Resolution IR Detector with 576x7 Focal Plane Array
* Color TV Camera and a Color Spotter Camera
* Laser Rangefinder (LRF)
* Laser Target Designator (D)
* Laser Spot Tracker (LST)
* Advanced Image Processing Techniques
* 4-axes Gyroscopic Stabilization
* Multiple target tracking over both colour Day-TV and IR video
* MIL-STD-1553 / RS-422 communication interfaces
* Wide Field of View for Navigation Capability
* High resolution Spotter Camera that provides remote recognition / identification capability
* Automatic image processing modes, line of sight scan modes and target tracking modes and many other features that reduce pilotage/operator workload
* Isolated inner gymbals reduce the effects of linear vibration on sensor

IAI officials maintain that the Turkish Heron's "with its enhanced performance, is better than all existing Heron UAVs operating worldwide

Wiki

 

[LegionnairE]

Getting planes that we paid for YEARS ago, means apologise?

They must apologise for soldiers that lost their lifes because of delays on this project.

 

[desiman]

for a second i thought it said that Israel sent 4 heroines to Turkey, i was like wtf lol

 

[LegionnairE]

Good trade.. two lives for a UAV.

They must pay it with blood

 

[TOPGUN]

They will not say sorry .... not pay with blood etc.. this is how they are and have been and always will be again these uav's were paid for and are being sent to Turkey.

 

[Machoman]

for a second i thought it said that Israel sent 4 heroines to Turkey, i was like wtf lol

me too lol

 

[graphican]

They will not say sorry .... not pay with blood etc.. this is how they are and have been and always will be again these uav's were paid for and are being sent to Turkey.

I agree they have been arrogant and unapologetic in spite of making numerous humanitarian and state crimes. But would you just over-look that because they have always been like that? I guess not. There is always time for something to end and always a time for something to begin. Israel would apologize, if not today then surely after few miles down the road. The world must keep it pushing to halt its crimes and it will have to. Not every crime is tolerated everytime!

 

[Reaper What You Sow]

They must pay it with blood

Next time you send unauthorized vessels into someone's territory let's see what they do. Here we see Turkey accepting the Heron and saying nice doing business with you buddy.

 

[Solomon2]

As I understand it, the Heron deal was in the works for years but Israel delivery was in slight doubt because of the flotilla fiasco. link Portraying the Heron delivery as a kind of Israeli apology" is misleading and could be counterproductive, as it may lead Israel to suspend the sale once more. You could, after all, equally characterize the $162 million Turkey paid for the drones as a Turkish apology, yes?

They must pay it with blood

No, Turkey paid cash for the Herons. Apparently you're still one of the angry, deluded Turks who feel that Turks died through some fault of Israelis, rather than through the depraved plotting of your own politicians. Maybe this editorial will set you straight?

Turkey's Erdogan bears responsibility in flotilla fiasco

Saturday, June 5, 2010

WESTERN GOVERNMENTS have been right to be concerned about Israel's poor judgment and botched execution in the raid against the Free Gaza flotilla. But they ought to be at least as worried about the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which since Monday has shown a sympathy toward Islamic militants and a penchant for grotesque demagoguery toward Israel that ought to be unacceptable for a member of NATO.

On the opposite page today, Turkey's ambassador to the United States makes the argument that Israel had no cause to clash with the "European lawmakers, journalists, business leaders and an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor" who were aboard the flotilla. But there was no fighting with those people, or with five of the six boats in the fleet. All of the violence occurred aboard the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara, and all of those who were killed were members or volunteers for the Islamic "charity" that owned the ship, the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH).

The relationship between Mr. Erdogan's government and the IHH ought to be one focus of any international investigation into the incident. The foundation is a member of the "Union of Good," a coalition that was formed to provide material support to Hamas and that was named as a terrorist entity by the United States in 2008. In discussions before the flotilla departed, Turkish officials turned down offers from both Israel and Egypt to deliver the "humanitarian" supplies on the boats to Gaza and insisted Ankara could not control what it described as a nongovernmental organization.

Yet the IHH has certainly done its best to promote Mr. Erdogan. "All the peoples of the Islamic world would want a leader like Recep Tayyip Erdogan," IHH chief Bulent Yildirim proclaimed at a Hamas rally in Gaza last year. And Mr. Erdogan seems to share that notion: In the days since an incident that the IHH admits it provoked, the Turkish prime minister has done his best to compete with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah's Hasan Nasrallah in attacking the Jewish state.

"The heart of humanity has taken one of her heaviest wounds in history," Mr. Erdogan claimed this week. He has had next to nothing to say about the slaughter of Iranians protesting last year's fraudulent elections, but he called Israel's actions "state terrorism" and a "bloody massacre" and described Israel itself as an "adolescent, rootless state." His foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said in Washington on Tuesday that "this attack is like 9/11 for Turkey" -- an obscene comparison to events in which more than 2,900 genuinely innocent people were killed.

Mr. Erdogan's crude attempt to exploit the incident comes only a couple of weeks after he joined Brazil's president in linking arms with Mr. Ahmadinejad, whom he is assisting in an effort to block new U.N. sanctions. What's remarkable about his turn toward extremism is that it comes after more than a year of assiduous courting by the Obama administration, which, among other things, has overlooked his antidemocratic behavior at home, helped him combat the Kurdish PKK and catered to Turkish sensitivities about the Armenian genocide. Israel is suffering the consequences of its misjudgments and disregard of U.S. interests. Will Mr. Erdogan's behavior be without cost?

 

[graphican]

They must pay it with blood

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