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Aselsan and Roketsan are co-partners in an ambitious program to build Turkey\u2019s first long-range air and anti-missile defense system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past several years, Turkey\u2019s local industry has sought to develop several armed and unarmed drone systems, as well as the country\u2019s first indigenous fighter jet (TF-X), an advanced trainer jet (Hurku\u015f) and Turkey\u2019s first indigenous tank (Altay).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, Turkey\u2019s defense and aerospace industries reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2019\/03\/13\/turkey-targets-defense-and-aerospace-exports-to-counter-growing-national-deficit\/\" target=\"_blank\">an average export increase<\/a> of 8 to 10 percent annually. Only in the past six years have defense and aerospace exports risen by 61 percent, while Turkey\u2019s overall exports rose by 10.5 percent. Turkey\u2019s defense and aerospace exports have risen from an annual $1.388 billion in 2013 to $2.035 billion in 2018. In January 2019 the sector reported $175 million worth of exports. This compares with sales growth from $5.076 billion in 2013 to $6.693 billion in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IDEF is expected to lure more than 900 local and foreign companies this year. Turkish officials also invited 144 foreign defense ministers and procurement officials as well as more than 400 foreign delegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, IDEF hosted 133 official delegations from 67 countries and 820 companies from 50 companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Turkish Aerospace Industries, which is the lead manufacturer on the TF-X and Hurkus programs, announced it will invest $181 million in a new composite plant, the world\u2019s fourth-largest facility of its kind, in Kahramankazan near Ankara. 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And Turkish participation in the F-35 program, including manufacturing parts, repairing and servicing the fighters, will be terminated, taking Turkish companies out of the manufacturing and supply chain for the program,\u201d wrote a group of bipartisan lawmakers from the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition Turkey has been aggressively marketing the T129, a helicopter gunship produced by TAI under license from the Italian-British firm AgustaWestland. Last year, Turkey signed a $1.5 billion deal with Pakistan to sell 30 T129s. It is also in talks with the Philippines for the sale of eight attack helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those and other potentially successful export deals for the T129 could be blocked amid the U.S.-Turkey dispute if the U.S. denies export licenses to the Turkish manufacturer. The T129 is powered by two LHTEC T800-4A turboshaft engines. 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