This is an article from 2010
It shows all the Air defence procurements Turkey wanted to do.....Now we learn Turkey has selected HQ-9 for their T-LORAMIDS.
Previously Turkey was interested in Ratheon's RIM-156A and had Plans to Build VLS on their FD-2000 Frigates.
Havelsan, was provided some source codes to integrate the Missile into their GENESIS C4I system. But the ToT for missile was never offered..The missile was to be Produced by Raytheon and sold to Turkey. The trail of RIM-156A went cold and no news is available if Turkey is integrating the Missile on their FD-2000 Frigates or not (Unless some Turkish member come up with a news?).
Raytheon and HAVELSAN Partner for FFG 7 Fleet Modernization With GENESIS Program - Apr 28, 2009
Raytheon and Havelsan later reached an agreement on Co-producing GENESIS command and control system for Navy ships and Together they Integrated the system on Turkish/USA FFG-7 Oliver class Frigates,and later marketed the system to Pakistan Navy and Egypt (I dont know if integrated in F-22P or not? @
fatman17 any news?).
It is plausible that HQ-9 will be integrated on FD-2000 on the ship's VLS. The system has similar Flight characteristics as Raytheon's RM-156,only at a lower cost and with much more ToT,as Chinese almost always do.
The only Problem here is that Turkish GENESIS Ship Integrated Combat Management System has a fire control system from Raytheon and that wont let a chinese system to be integrated...
From the looks of it Turkey is already doing R&D for their own Shipboard Fire control system . They already have VATOS Mk-II for Torpedo,and may be they will improve upon it or develop some other for integration into their GENESIS system and integrate HQ-9 (My speculation).
From the looks of it HQ-9 is far more adapted for VLS as its cold launch system unlike RIM-156 and Aegis,both being Hot launch systems and therefore VLS design is complicated...