Pakistan to Begin Financial Negotiations for Turkish T129 Helicopter Purchase

[ashok321]

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Pakistan’s potential purchase of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) T129 ATAK attack helicopters has reached the financial negotiation stage.

“It is in the pipeline … [the process is] 90 percent complete,” and that the matter proceeded to financial proposals, which are being examined by Pakistan, Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Production (MoDP) Rana Tanveer Hussain was quoted as saying by Quwa Sunday.

Rana Tanveer Hussain was an official two-day visit (24-26 November) to Turkey in a bid to review ongoing bilateral defence programs.

On November 25, the MoDP informed Turkey’s state-owned new agency Anadolu Agency that Pakistan’s potential purchase of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) T129 ATAK attack helicopters and four MILGEM (Milli Gemi: National Warship) naval vessels were major subjects of discussion on his current visit.

Pakistan selected the T129 ATAK helicopter over the Chinese Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation (CAIC) Z-10. Both helicopters’ manufacturers were in the race to supply the Pakistan Army with a light attack helicopter in excess of 50 units with an initial negotiation involving 30 choppers. Three Z-10 helicopter gunship has been undergoing user trials since 2015 while the Pakistan Army put the T129 ATAK through rigorous hot-and-high performance tests starting June 2016.

At IDEF 2017 show in Turkey in May, TAI and PAC had signed a memorandum-of-understanding (MoU) followed by the visit to Pakistan by TAI chief Temel Kotil, who reiterated TAI’s commitment to enable PAC to manufacture parts for the T129 and possibly assemble T129 ATAKs.

The T129 is an upgraded variant of the AgustaWestland A129 Mangusta with Turkish companies such as Aselsan, Roketsan and Havelsan having developed weapons and subsystems for the chopper.

 

[Trango Towers]

30 initial and 50 plus option with assembly and manufacture. Good times ahead. This will lead to a helicopter program that the military badly needs.

 

[ashok321]

 

[Avicenna]

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I hope this happens. What an amazing thing this would be! May Allah bless the strong friendship between Pakistan and Turkey.

 

[Maxpane]

hope for the better future

 

[Trango Towers]

I hope this happens. What an amazing thing this would be! May Allah bless the strong friendship between Pakistan and Turkey.

If turkey leaves NATO. It has almost all the tech except engine tech for fighter aircraft and tanks. We have nuclear and missile tech. Between us we don't need anyone else. Just have to study engine design. Inshallah not in too distance future that will happen. Then two fingers to the west. They only beat up and abuse nations that can't hit back.

 

[Amir Ijaz]

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Hopefully, it'll be like a barter trade - ATAK & MILGEM vs MUSHAK & JF

 

[Areesh]

Just sign the agreement FFS

 

[Max]

I hope this happens. What an amazing thing this would be! May Allah bless the strong friendship between Pakistan and Turkey.

Do Turk even need any replacement right now? they will replace F-4 with F-35. F-16 will serve for a decade atleast until TFX come out.

offcourse, relevant Minister know more then us, but his offer seems illogical.

 

[Kompromat]

We buy ATAKs, they buy Mushaks and Thunders. It might be a win win.

 

[Army research]

We buy ATAKs, they buy Mushaks and Thunders. It might be a win win.

And milgem

 

[Sucha Kuggu]

Hopefully, it'll be like a barter trade - ATAK & MILGEM vs MUSHAK & JF

we need more to barter knowledge than goods, any how a good step.

 

[Imran Khan]

man just buy them now

 

[HAIDER]

ATAK helicopters deal 90 pct complete, Pakistani minister says

Following recent reports of Pakistan's interest in Turkey's T129 Advanced Attack and Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter (ATAK), Pakistan's Defense Production Minister Rana Tanvir Hussein announced on Saturday that the "selling process was 90 percent complete" for 39 T129 ATAK helicopters.

The Pakistani minister, who is currently holding talks in Ankara, emphasized bilateral ties and a long-standing business relationship between Pakistan and Turkey.

"The selling process for the helicopters is 90 percent complete," Hussein said, underscoring that proposals were being examined and financial aspects were being evaluated.

He also stated that in the framework of the MİLGEM (National Ship) Project, four ships will be manufactured for Pakistan - two in Turkey and two in Karachi.

"Turkey will also receive 52 'Super Mushshak' training aircraft from Pakistan," he said. "Many countries are using this aircraft, which is very good for basic training."

Hussein said that Turkey is also examining the issue of acquiring Pakistan's domestically produced JF-17 warplane.

Previously, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) General Manager Temel Kotil stated that Pakistan has agreed to purchase 30 ATAK helicopters, although formal procedures are still being completed. The company is soon expected to sign a purchase agreement with the Pakistani government, Kotil said.

He also referred to Pakistani Prime Minister Shadid Khaqan Abbasi's visit to Turkey last month, when he, as a personal pilot, examined the T129 ATAK and took it on a test flight.

Afterwards, Abbasi reportedly said, "As a pilot, I can say that this is the best and the most effective attack helicopter in the world. The Pakistani Armed Forces has tested this helicopter for four years in all possible conditions and in its finest detail, and found it to be the number-one choice and the most successful [helicopter] in technical terms."

Noting that the ATAK is a very impressive helicopter, Abbasi thanked the TAI general manager and his team, as well as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

At the time he said, "At this point, our contract talks continue at full speed. Everything is moving ahead positively. Hopefully, we will purchase this helicopter and bring it into the inventory of the Pakistan Armed Forces as soon as possible."

ATAK helicopters have so far recorded 12,000 flight hours and the aim is to develop a homegrown engine and a domestically produced 20mm artillery system for it.

The T129 ATAK helicopter is a new generation, tandem, two-seat, twin-engine helicopter specifically designed for attack and reconnaissance. Developed from the combat-proven AgustaWestland A129CBT, the new aircraft incorporates a new system philosophy with a new engine - the LHTEC CTS 800-4A - new avionics, sight systems and weapons, modified airframe, an uprated drive train and a new tail rotor.
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