I get the point that people think that everything is ok with Koc and Erdogan again, but government deals with Koc have been terminated in the past and there is a lot of hesitation going on.
And why on earth would even Erdogan cancel a deal Otokar made with UAE, if that is the deal you're talking about.
Erdogan doesn't even need to hate Koç, if he wants to fill pockets of his own or of connected people he will do it. BMC is going to work with the Germans, yes maybe high quality but we're going to pay out of the *** for it while on tv he calls them nazi's?! Not to mention it's going to screw with the people who actually designed the damn thing.
Also a lot of people are seeing easy money in defence industry and are trying to switch to it by signing license agreements and calling it milli, and then they have fellow connected media to play out the story (tada!). So all those guys who made money with TOMA vehicles or with construction and are now worrying about worse economy are looking for an easy fill... which once again degrades Turkish defence industry.
This is why I am against BMC getting it, yes they may be investing a lot but at the end of the day they don't seem to have vision, just trying to get their slice of the pie.
My solution, Otokar for domestic production, if Qatar magically buys a lot of Altays (don't they have leo2a7s?) then BMC can ramp up joint production
. But I doubt they will.
Oh if you need to give BMC something give them some parts of the upgrade package for older tanks to get them started.
And poster above also ignores it was UAE which stopped dealing with us for a long time while still using Turkish arms during their operation in Libya (against our goals lol) and during Yemen. I read a comment somewhere stating Arabs were impressed with Turkish gear during their ops (and they took a lot hits).
I doubt UAE suddenly dealing with us again has to do with warming relations...
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