MSI Turkish Defence Review - July 2018 / 10. Issue: 57

In this issue

05 EDITORIAL COMMENT
SSM’s Area of Influence Keeps Expanding
06 INTERVIEW
Kerim KALAFATOĞLU, Chairman and Executive Director of ARES Shipyard
20 SPECIAL COVERAGE
Now is the Time of F-35 at the Turkish Air Force
28 DEFENCE NEWS
n ASELSAN, EUROSAM, and ROKETSAN Full Steam Ahead in Long-Range Air and Missile Defence System Project
n Katmerciler Continues Supplying Armoured Heavy Equipment for TAF
n Alpteknik Aviation to Maintain Robinson Helicopters
n Turkish Aerospace Industries to Speed Up Design of TF-X National Combat Aircraft with Dassault Systèmes
n ASELSAN’s Solution for Bomb-Carrying UAVs: Laser
n BMC POWER Completes Assembly of New Diesel Engine
n SSM Shakes Hands with BMC for ALTAY Tank’s Powerpack
n TEI Performs First Ignition of TS1400 Engine
n Kale Aero Begins Deliveries of Krueger Flaps for 777X
n Baykar Makina’s AKINCI Assault
n Nurol Makina Delivers First NMS 4x4 from Serial Production Line
n Airbus Delivers Sixth A400M to Turkey
n Export Champions of Industry Received Awards
n ROKETSAN Begins MAM-C Deliveries
n SSM-Türk Loydu Cooperation To Boost Sectoral Capabilities
n Onur A.Ş. Delivers Mobile TACANs to Turkish Air Force
n STM Partners in Brazil for Ship Construction
42 INTERVIEW
T. Yasin ÖZTÜRK, Member of the Board at BMC
44 SPECIAL COVERAGE
IFF Mode 5 Era Starts at TAF with ASELSAN
48 INTERVIEW
Fatih ÜNAL, Managing Director of SDT
56 SPECIAL COVERAGE
EFES Exercise Grows with Indigenous Platforms and Weapons
78 SPECIAL COVERAGE
Fotoniks Offers High-Speed Laser Optical Communication Solution for Next-Generation Reconnaissance and Surveillance
82 SPECIAL COVERAGE
Turkish Cyber Security Cluster Penetrates the Market
86 SPECIAL COVERAGE
Otokar Waves the Turkish Flag at HEMUS 2018
90 AMAC EVENTS
n Flag Day of the Finnish Defence Forces
n Royal Air Force Day
n National Day of Belarus, Canada, Georgia, Italy, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sweden
n British Queen’s Birthday

MSI Turkish Defence Review Magazine Description:

MSI (Military, Science & Intelligence) Turkish Defence Review (TDR) is one of the defence reviews sold in newsstands with the total circulation of about 5.500 copies and is the only periodical issued monthly in Turkish and English about defence (land, air, navy), aerospace (aviation & space), and security (including homeland security, cyber security & law enforcement) in Turkey.
MSI TDR has been working continuously with approximately 300 different sizes of Turkish defence companies in different subjects.
MSI TDR follows up all steps from emerging of an initial requirement to procurement, from production to test, from delivery to after sale service among the triangle of end users (Turkish Armed Forces, National Police, Gendarmerie General Command, Coast Guard), procurement body (the Undersecretaries for Defence Industries (SSM), Ministry of Defence (MSB)) and the defence industry (all prime and sub-contractor companies), makes news and releases to its subscribers.