US reluctant to share defense tech: minister

[Saithan]

The world’s biggest economies and not regional neighbors are Turkey’s new rivals, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has said, citing the U.S. hesitation to share technology with Ankara as an example of the new situation.

“Our rivals are no longer the neighboring towns or provinces. The new competitors for the Turkish people are today those in Germany, France and the United States,” Yılmaz said during the opening ceremony of a school in the Central Anatolian province of Konya’s Ilgın district.

“During a recent visit to America, when asked about technology transfer to Turkey, [the officials] openly said that we were their rival. ‘Why should we transfer technology to you?’ they asked,” the minister said.
Yılmaz’s remarks came only days after news reports that Turkey was still bargaining for the software of F-35 fighter jets that it has decided to acquire from the U.S.

“When it comes to the plane’s software, we aren’t talking about purchasing all the codes, but just those that are the most essential for the plane’s freedom of operation. These are the codes that we are interested in acquiring,” Murad Bayar, undersecretary of the Defense Industry, said in an interview Jan. 13 in reference to the decisions from the most recent Defense Industry Executive Committee.

Turkey plans to buy two F-35s from the U.S. in 2015

source: ECONOMICS - US reluctant to share defense tech: minister

 

[Cirit]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Self confidence and dreaming are two different things.

 

[FriendOfPakistan]

Turkey needs to develop its own technology. It seems they have started to, but only recently. (Please correct me if I am wrong.)

Getting restricted or downgraded advanced fighters - that can't be used freely - limits your options

I was wondering how long the US will give advanced components to Turkish military firms. Seems like they are just waking up to the dangers of doing that.

 

[Saithan]

Another thing to remember are the deaths of some of the engineers who've worked on the software or parts of e.g. F-16 that enable the computer to recognize enemy and ally. I think all the F-16 Turkey got and probably other countries had a standard setup where the computer/software recognize Israelie airplanes as friend.

That software has been changed thankfully, so TuAF will determine who's friend and foe, which is the right of every sovereign country. I just hope TSK will do more to safeguard the life of their engineers, and MIT will do more to remove any foreign intelligence agency member.

 

[cabatli_53]

Turkey needs to develop its own technology. It seems they have started to, but only recently. (Please correct me if I am wrong.)

You're wrong... Check the commencing date of some critical projects to realize When Tukey started developing own technology and systems... Some of them takes long time indeed because We are DEVELOPING/MANUFACTURİNG/PROTOTYPE TESTİNG/SERİAL PRODUCING them... I mean We have a vision with those systems. It is to create cost effective NATO standart systems that is able to compete with German and French equivalents at international tenders...

 

[livingdead]

When americans say you are rivals, you should take it as complement.
It means turkey has the capability to be their competitor and beat them in their business.
It does not mean enemy or something.
In any case US is reluctant to share tech compared to russia.

 

[Tin Man]

When americans say you are rivals, you should take it as complement.
It means turkey has the capability to be their competitor and beat them in their business.
It does not mean enemy or something.
In any case US is reluctant to share tech compared to russia.

I agree with this assessment.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

When americans say you are rivals, you should take it as complement.
It means turkey has the capability to be their competitor and beat them in their business.
It does not mean enemy or something.
In any case US is reluctant to share tech compared to russia.

Turkey has upper hand in Muslim military market comparing to USA. Turkey transfers technology to the buyers as well.

 

[cabatli_53]

Turkey has upper hand in Muslim military market comparing to USA. Turkey transfers technology to the buyers as well.

That's true. Turkey offers fully tech transfer for many products to be exported for especially Muslim World. Malaysia will take PARS 8x8 technology worth 500 million $, UAE took Composite production for MRTP series FAC'S and 300mm artillery rocket technologies from Tukey, Saudi Arabia is modernizating own tracked vehicles in home thanks to Turkish technology...etc so Turks offer more than Western countries may offer in tenders so They started loosing some tenders in some places...