Kristian
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To Making a perfect deal like T129, It is needed to connect many different factors in a perfect time period. Matured engineering groups, infrastructure, good political relations, big number of requirements, a huge budget. It was Berlusconi a Turk friendly president ruling Italy in times when We made T-129 Atak co-development/production deal with Agusta. Otherwise, Noone approaches to share own expertise to another country in such a strategic area of defence industry. What others mostly offer is to assemble some fuselage parts of their heloes, While Turkey insists of receiving ownership and freedom of platform to be developed including all intellectual and property rights for production, development and exportation in order to call it as a national attack helicopter. This project put Turkey into elites league that Turkey must compete with Russia, China and USA like rivals at competitions... Today, The expertise gained in Atak project are being transfered to 5 tonnes utility helicopter project.
Turkey has reached a great family of anti-tank missiles which is going to be used for many different roles thanks to motivation effect of T-129 Atak project. If Atak project didn't exist, Most probably, Turkey would not start development of Mizrak-U ATGM and Cirit semi active lazer guided missile project. Mizrak-U enables Roketsan to develop Mizrak-O, Then Mizrak-K, then Mizrak-SR, later Naval variants Mizrak-D block-1(16km) and Mizrak-D Block-2(30km).
One transport, one attacking helicopter.
