BAE Systems and Turkish Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop new uncrewed air systems, expanding industrial cooperation between the UK and Türkiye in advanced aviation technology.
The agreement will bring together Turkish Aerospace’s design and production expertise with BAE Systems’ experience in combat air and autonomy.
According to the companies, the partnership will focus on identifying shared projects and developing scalable, cost-effective uncrewed aircraft solutions.
Dave Holmes, Managing Director of BAE Systems’ FalconWorks division, said the deal marks “the start of a deep and meaningful alliance” between the two organisations. He added that both firms will “leverage and combine their complementary skills and capabilities to create a range of compelling and cost-effective solutions.”
Turkish Aerospace CEO Dr Mehmet Demiroğlu said the collaboration builds on an already close relationship and offers the potential to “bring our proven uncrewed systems capabilities to new heights.”
He added that the companies aim to “jointly explore how we can accelerate progress and new market opportunities in this field.”
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That’s Blessed in Latin you know !
Is it me or is the UK and Turkey having a bit of a rapprochement moment. The Anglo Turkish relationship seems to be one of really positive elements of Brexit… especially because we are in the same geostrategic region..it’s good for Turkey has the UK has some of the tec industries that Turkey would like as well as a nice market for Turkey to tap into.. we get an ally with a lot of scope for growth a big future market and gives us more influence in an important region.
Nah mate, It’s coming up to Christmas, who doesn’t like a bit of Turkey ?
Trump will be Spitting Feathers.
Dated a nurse from Turkey once.. so yep I loved a bit of Turkey.
Oh mate, I have so many many things in my mind now, none of which would Go down well, so I’ll keep them locked away.
It’s for the breast.
You just keep me abreast of things if you need to.
Perhaps he’ll “sprout” wings and fly off. I tnink I meant fly?
Well purely in technical terms this certainly seems like a natural alliance for both parties especially after the Leonardo agreement with Baykar some months back clearly signalling the willingness of Turkey to find European partners without excessive demands for technological transfer that so often accompanied it. It seems to represent some considerable and welcome recovery after what became a somewhat fractured Bae and Rolls Royce cooperation with TAI on the 5th Gen Kaan. Maybe some re-energised opportunity there too then if relations generally on the military front are warming. We need the sort of drones they are producing and developing while they need the sort of expertise Bae has to offer but generally under-utilised here. Potentially brings team Tempest into the equation too in one form or other but that’s for the future.
More immediately we have seen American companies scrambling to sell Europe drones, something circumstances beyond our control make increasingly undesirable, so this is a real opportunity to go in a different direction that benefits all parties and Europe generally and help tie Turkey into mutual European interests. Hey we might even see some orders or is that too much to help. Anyway good news on various fronts.
We also have an MOU to develop a convenience store and barber shop partnership with Turkey. Also, can we have the £2 billion we loaned you for your railway?