ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Nine potential bidders have signaled their interest in Turkey’s effort to acquire aircraft stand-off jammer (SOJ) capabilities, the country’s procurement agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), A total of<\/span> nine Turkish and international companies obtained copies of a request for information (RfI) potentially to take part in the critical Turkish<\/span> program. to earn the country’s aircraft stand-off jammer (SOJ) capabilities<\/span>.<\/span> The possible bidders are pan-European Airbus Defence & Space Miliary Aircraft; Turkey’s Aselsan A.S.<\/span>; Turkish firm Duygu Havacilik Ve Savunma Sanayi Ticaret A.S.<\/span>; a partnership of the Turkish company Esen Sistem and US company Sierra Nevada Corp.; Turkish company Ortadogu Muhendislik Insaat Savunma Teknolojileri Sanayi Yazilim Ve Ticaret A.S.<\/span>; Turkey’s Probil Bilgi Islem Destek ve Danismanlik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.<\/span>; Turkish company Savronik; Selex ES, part of Italy’s Finmeccanica; and Tempus Applied Solutions LLC<\/span>, Williamsburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry sources expect the new SOJ program to cost Turkey about $200 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although a local Turkish company has engaged in talks with foreign aircraft manufacturers to build an SOJ system, SSM earlier launched a parallel program to procure similar systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new SOJ program is dubbed Golge, or “shadow” in Turkish. It involves “production, delivery and acceptance of the systems; installation and integration of mission equipment into the systems; construction of barracks and buildings; test and assessment of the systems; maintenance, repairs, technical support, spare parts; supply of ground support equipment and their spare parts and overall training.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n