@royalharris
Do you think that I'm happy about Turkey's procurement policy? Many people argue that Turkey's progress in the field of defence industries is due to her membership in the Nato.
That's utter BS. Nato is the reason why we couldn't buy Chinese or Russian products with much better ToT conditions. Especially Chinese were really generous when it came to know how sharing in the 80s and 90s. And they still are to some extent.
But Nato forbid Turkey to cooperate with Peking. Instead of bilateral projects with China, we had to buy off the shelf products from Western countries. This is the reason why Turkey isn't more advanced today.
That's the same mistake the Saudis are repeating today with their hundreds of billions of dollars agreements with the US. They never ever will share critical knowhow with Saudis. Even the Brits are far more generous.