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.
Wether Turkey really has 5th gen anything is open to question.
Inexpertly I’d say their drones are 4th gen with a few 5th gen features.
But the air domain never was my thing….
Thr Turks prefer to be called Turkiye
Sorry guys not being pedantic but did business out there and the Middlle East and they do not like the two legged version and officialy made their preference known a few yhears ago
When corresponding to Iran the old name Persian Gulf was used but when dealing with the Gulf states definetely Arabian Gulf needed to be used
BAE had a contract to develop the Kaan 5th gen plane for Turkey after the US cancelled their F35 order after the Turks ordered the Russian S400 SAM sytems some years ago so there is some history on helping them on advanced aero tech
Whilst all that is true there will be limits to tech transfer from UK to even other NATO parties.
I’m talking about baseline indigenous tech.
Interestingly if you look at the latest advert for the Turkish tourist board they have gone back to calling it Turkey.. pretty much acknowledging what we all know, asking people from other countries to call a nation its name in its own language is a bit silly.. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti is its official name in Turkish but the anglicised form is Turkey in the same way as we call Deutschland Germany. The French in common language call the UK l’Angleterre.. whic h as we know is totally wrong and a bit insulting to the Welsh, Scott’s and northern Irish.
It does indeed look like it a rapproachement and IMHO makes a great deal of sense. Turkiye is after all Russia’s oldest enemy and has quite some involvement in Ukraine. The French have been Greece’s main partner for years and the US blow hot and cold, changing their minds every other week. Realistically who else are they going to partner with?
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?
You are delusional.
Remember Turkey used to seek others now others seek Turkey. Germany is next seeking having a deal with Turkey after German chancellor visited Ankara. Turkey is a significant power that can’t be ignored anymore with presence in Europe Central Asia Arabian Gulf , Horn of Africa into the Indian Ocean. The US requested Baykar to manufacture drones after Erdogan visited Washington last month
I think the Turks will say those barber shops are not run by Turks
A little bit like curry houses. About 25 years ago I had picked up a couple of Indians from the airport whose company were licence building construction equipment from Massey Ferguson. We were dricing through curry mile in Manchester and I mentiioned the numerous Indian restaurants a voice in the back cut in – These are not Indian restaurants
My chippie is run by a Chinese guy and the local Chinese by a Scot.. It’s a wonderful world!
I was more going off the recent investigation into the majority of these businesses being fronts run by Kurds.
There is no honor in collaboration with Turkey technology or morality wise, it might be a practical thing today… exactly as it was with the Christian guy that built the cannons for the Ottomans which were eventually used to bring down the walls of Constantinople