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In May, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said an S-500 deal was likely to come in the form of co-production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In December, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Ankara and Moscow were in talks for the acquisition of a second fleet of S-400s, noting that Turkey is seeking co-production, technology transfer and the right to export to third countries in any new S-400 deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also last month, \u0130smail Demir, head of the Turkish Defence Industry Directorate, confirmed Ankara was still interested in buying the Patriot system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkey also has been in talks with the Franco-Italian business Eurosam for co-production of the SAMP\/T air defense system in partnership with Turkey\u2019s state-controlled electronics specialist Aselsan and missile-maker Roketsan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Demir accused France on Jan. 7 of obstructing the SAMP\/T effort. He said the French government has impeded progress on a potential deal ever since Turkey\u2019s military incursion into northern Syria in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are at the stage of definition study now. France has a negative attitude for the next phase. It creates troubles to go one step further,\u201d Demir said. \u201cIf this attitude continues, we will proceed with the other partner [Italy].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turkey and Eurosam signed in early 2018 a preliminary, 18-month deal to examine co-production of a national Turkish air defense system based on the SAMP\/T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the 2000s Turkey has been trying to build an indigenous long-range air defense system, but there\u2019s ben a lack of progress. Only in October 2019 did Turkey\u2019s first indigenous, low-altitude air defense system, Hisar-A, successfully passed field tests. The system, co-produced by Aselsan and Roketsan, will now come under serial production with a planned delivery in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hisar-A provides protection against a multitude of airborne targets due to its vertical launch capability. The system is mounted on a self-propelled armored vehicle and can be fully autonomous by means of 3D radar, an electro-optic sensor suite and fire control. It\u2019s to be used to protect military bases, ports, airports and mobile troops. The system targets fixed- and rotor-wing aircraft, drones, cruise missiles, and air-to-ground missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aselsan and Roketsan are also developing Hisar-O, the medium-altitude version. It\u2019s expected to enter the Turkish military\u2019s inventory in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hisar-O\u2019s operation invovles a ground station and three batteries, each of which has a sufficient amount of launchers, missiles, radars, command-and-control and communication systems, and other support equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When combined, Hisar-A and Hisar-O will provide Turkey the ability to destroy threats at low and medium altitudes. The Hisar program involves the development and production of two types of ground systems and the missile itself, which is being designed to launch from a self-propelled system or an armored, wheeled vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The West\u2019s reluctance to transfer critical air defense technology to Turkey may be pushing the NATO ally further into the orbit of Russian-made weapons systems, particularly for the acquisition of the S-500 platform currently in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":46,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,46,11,14,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3466],"class_list":["post-42641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-europe","category-global","category-land","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"KPMFOT5I6JH7XKLKZ37XDQICHM","arc_canonical_url":"\/global\/europe\/2020\/01\/10\/wests-reluctance-to-share-tech-pushes-turkey-further-into-russian-orbit\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PR_2015-10-15_EN-435.jpg.jpg\")