{"id":15773,"date":"2009-10-26T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2013-10-12T23:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:49:46","slug":"turkey-to-select-next-generation-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/26\/turkey-to-select-next-generation-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to select next-generation helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"
Monday, October 26, 2009<\/div>\n

\u00dcM\u0130T ENG\u0130NSOY<\/p>\n

ANKARA – H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/div>\n
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\"\"Turkey is preparing to select a new utility helicopter model, which it plans to produce and use for both military and civilian purposes over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s procurement office is presently holding talks with a U.S. company and a European consortium. One of them will lead the work with local partners to jointly produce hundreds of utility platforms worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

The two firms are the U.S. Sikorsky Aircraft and the Italian-British AgustaWestland. Sikorsky is competing with its S-70 Black Hawk International and AgustaWestland is offering a platform currently being developed for the Turkish contract.<\/p>\n

The two companies presented their best offers in September, and Turkey’s Defense Industry Executive Committee is expected to choose a winner before the year-end, senior procurement officials told the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News & Economic Review.<\/p>\n

The members of the Defense Industry Executive Committee, Turkey’s top decision-making body on procurement matters, include Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, Chief of General Staff Gen. \u0130lker Ba\u015fbu\u011f, Defense Minister Vecdi G\u00f6n\u00fcl and Chief Procurement Officer Murad Bayar.<\/p>\n

The first batch of utility helicopters to be jointly produced will comprise 109 platforms, worth more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n

Some 40 of those platforms will go for civilian purposes, and the rest will be military helicopters for the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Gendarmerie.<\/p>\n

20 helicopters a year<\/p>\n

“After the first batch of 109 helicopters, we expect to order nearly 20 helicopters a year from this assembly line for many years,” one procurement official said.<\/p>\n

“So the model we choose will be Turkey’s standard utility helicopter model for the next 20 years,” said the official. Turkey also plans to export this jointly manufactured utility platform.<\/p>\n

Presently, the Turkish military is operating several different types of helicopters. The military has more than 100 S-70s, more than 100 older U.S.-made UH-1 Hueys and 19 French-designed AS-532 Cougars.<\/p>\n

Separately, the procurement office is holding government-to-government talks with the United States for the purchase of 10 CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters, made by Boeing. In the long run, Turkey wants to design, develop and manufacture its own light utility helicopter.<\/p>\n

H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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