Chinese firm wins Turkey's missile defense system tender

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Chinese firm wins Turkey's missile defense system tender | Reuters

The Turkish defense minister announced the decision in a statement.

Turkey, which is a member of the NATO military alliance, has no long-range missile defense system of its own, but NATO has deployed the U.S.-built Patriot air and missile defense system there since 2012.

The winning Chinese FD-2000 system beat out the U.S. Patriot, Russian S-400, and French-Italian Eurosam Samp-T to win the contract.

Raytheon Co (RTN.N), which builds the Patriot missile system, said it had been informed about the Turkish decision and hoped to get a briefing soon. It said there were 200 Patriot units deployed in 12 countries, including Turkey.

"NATO has long supported the system, deploying Patriot in five aligned countries and, in 2012, providing a requested Patriot deployment to Turkey. Given this strong performance, we hope to have an opportunity to debrief and learn more about this decision," Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said.

Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz's statement also said a contract to produce six corvette ships by Koc Holding (KCHOL.IS), Turkey's biggest conglomerate, had been cancelled.

A contract to build two ships would be awarded to the Turkish naval shipyard. The construction of four remaining ships will be put out to tender later, Yilmaz said.

Koc Holding was recently accused of backing the 1997 military overthrow of Turkey's first Islamist-led government, sending the firm's shares tumbling on fears of a deepening vendetta against the country's secular business elite.

The Turkish government launched a probe into the taxes of Koc energy firms in July, weeks after criticizing one of the family's hotels for sheltering protesters during anti-government unrest that rocked several cities over the summer.

(Writing by Ece Toksabay; Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa in Washington; Editing by David Evans and Paul Simao)
 

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Chinese firm wins Turkey's missile defense system tender | Reuters

4 billion $ !

(Reuters) - Turkey on Thursday chose a Chinese defense firm CPMIEC to co-produce a $4 billion long-range air and missile defense system, rejecting rival bids from Russian, U.S. and European firms.

The Turkish defense minister announced the decision in a statement.

Turkey, which is a member of the NATO military alliance, has no long-range missile defense system of its own, but NATO has deployed the U.S.-built Patriot air and missile defense system there since 2012.

The winning Chinese FD-2000 system beat out the U.S. Patriot, Russian S-400, and French-Italian Eurosam Samp-T to win the contract.

Raytheon Co (RTN.N), which builds the Patriot missile system, said it had been informed about the Turkish decision and hoped to get a briefing soon. It said there were 200 Patriot units deployed in 12 countries, including Turkey.

"NATO has long supported the system, deploying Patriot in five aligned countries and, in 2012, providing a requested Patriot deployment to Turkey. Given this strong performance, we hope to have an opportunity to debrief and learn more about this decision," Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said.

Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz's statement also said a contract to produce six corvette ships by Koc Holding (KCHOL.IS), Turkey's biggest conglomerate, had been cancelled.

A contract to build two ships would be awarded to the Turkish naval shipyard. The construction of four remaining ships will be put out to tender later, Yilmaz said.

Koc Holding was recently accused of backing the 1997 military overthrow of Turkey's first Islamist-led government, sending the firm's shares tumbling on fears of a deepening vendetta against the country's secular business elite.

The Turkish government launched a probe into the taxes of Koc energy firms in July, weeks after criticizing one of the family's hotels for sheltering protesters during anti-government unrest that rocked several cities over the summer.

(Writing by Ece Toksabay; Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa in Washington; Editing by David Evans and Paul Simao)
 

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Chinese Firm Wins Big Turkish Air-Defense Deal

Chinese Firm Wins Big Turkish Air-Defense Deal | Defense News | defensenews.com

ANKARA — In a multibillion-dollar deal, Turkey agreed Thursday to buy a Chinese-made long-range air- and missile-defense system — a move that could prevent the system from being integrated with Turkey's existing NATO architecture.

A contract valued at a reported $3 billion was awarded to the China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corp. CPMEIC, maker of the HQ-9 long-range air-defense and anti-missile system.

Turkey had been strongly leaning toward a Chinese system, Defense News reported in June.

The decision to acquire the system, dubbed T-Loramids, from the Chinese contender was made at a Thursday meeting of the Defense Industry Executive Committee, which oversees major procurement decisions and is chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The contract was initially expected to be worth $4 billion, but one procurement official said the Chinese manufacturer had reduced its proposal to around $3 billion.

T-Loramids consists of radar, launcher and intercept missiles. The system has been designed to counter both enemy aircraft and missiles. Turkey has no long-range air-defense systems.

CPMEIC said it will co-produce the system with Turkish prime and subcontractors. But diplomats and analysts warn that Turkey may not be allowed to integrate the Chinese-Turkish system into its mostly NATO-owned early warning assets.

Other contenders for the contract were a US partnership of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, offering the Patriot air defense system; Russia's Rosoboronexport, marketing the S-300; and the Italian-French consortium Eurosam, maker of the SAMP/T Aster 30.
The T-Loramids will be based on China's HQ-9 air defense system. As one analyst puts it:

In a surprise to many PLA followers, this news of China winning the Turkish Air Defense competition came out today. A lot of us had followed the competition, but thought Chinese and Russian bids were only sought out to bring down the price tag of Western companies. It turned out that an export version of HQ-9 has beaten out PAC-3, S-300PMU2 and Aster-30.

Clearly, this is a huge win for the Chinese military industrial complex. While this was not China's first export deal to Turkey (that would be WS-1B) or its first air defense export, Chinese firms have never won a major export deal like this in NATO countries. As shown in the dropping of price tag for $4 billion to $3 billion, the Chinese system obviously had a big advantage in price tag. Also, they are likely to be willing to share more technology and go for more local production than Raytheon and LockMart. However, the lack of integration with NATO system along with general pressure from American government put both the Chinese and Russian bids at a disadvantage. What this result shows is that the Chinese system must have achieved at least comparable technical performance in the bidding process compared to its competition and probably won out due to cost + co-production.

On the other hand, one would think that S-300 would have similar advantages to Western systems. So, does this mean HQ-9 performed better than S-300PMU2 or was it more due to lower price? Either way, we do know that China has stopped purchase of S-300PMU2 while deploying new HQ-9 units. At the same time, there are also persistent rumours that China is looking to purchase S-400.
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Seems the bidding process was a good acid test for the HQ-9.
 

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From last July:

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[AKP] decided ...no Patriots for Turkey, at least not for the time being. Instead the Turkish government is interested in the Chinese equivalent of the Patriot. Turkey's NATO allies were amazed. A NATO country with a Chinese weapon is something bizarre to begin with, but there are also practical objections. The Chinese system is simply not compatible with the NATO infrastructure. It does not connect to the early warning system of NATO, which is designed to protect Europe and Israel from evil plans made in Iran. In other words, Turkey can shoot with Chinese missiles, but is not able to locate its target.

Because the friend/foe detection system used by NATO does not connect with the Chinese air defense missiles, it is also difficult to combine them with Turkey's F-16 fighter jets. Another complicating factor is that NATO does not want to see the top-secret data of the friend/foe system end up in Chinese hands. The Turkish plans will certainly be seen as a risk factor in this respect.

Turkey mentioned (acceptable) technology and low price as advantages of the Chinese proposition.
Nothing good can come of this.
 

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We have Americans to thank for making this happen!

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Oh god thanks for the Chinese AD systems near Israel ..shall I say CIA/MOSSAD lobbied Turkey forced to Buy Chinese Products ..In futre It is clear the IDF can fly over Turkish Air Space in case of Any conflict without losing any of it's Fighter by Ground fire
 

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We have Americans to thank for making this happen!

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Or the Americans have the Turks to thank for the opportunity to closely analyze Chinese missile defense tech... :thumb:
 

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Turkey venting her frustrations with NATO / EU by acquiring Chinese defence system? Sweet!

Also not to forget Turkey is the only NATO member who had joint exercise with PLAAF.

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Turkey venting her frustrations with NATO / EU by acquiring Chinese defence system? Sweet!

Also not to forget Turkey is the only NATO member who had joint exercise with PLAAF.

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The question is why has the PLA allowed this to happen? They can't be that naive!
 
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NATO warns Turkey against buying Chinese, Russian air defense systems

NATO may avoid sharing ballistic missiles intelligence with Turkey if the nation decides to buy Chinese or Russian systems for its missile defense program

Ankara would have to operate without NATO's intelligence information on incoming ballistic missiles if it chooses to buy Chinese or Russian systems for its national air and missile defense program, officials of the Western alliance have warned Turkey.

Participating in the ongoing competition to win Turkey's national air and missile contract are the U.S. partnership between Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, with their Patriot air defense systems; Russia's Rosoboronexport, marketing the S300; China's CPMIEC (China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corp.), offering its HQ-9; and the Italian-French Eurosam, maker of the SAMP/T Aster 30. Turkey is planning to make its selection late this year or early next year.
Many Western officials and experts say that since the Russian and the Chinese systems are not compatible with NATO systems, their potential eventual victory might provide them with access to classified NATO information, and as a result may compromise NATO's procedures.

But despite this criticism, Turkey so far has ruled against expelling the Chinese and Russian options, saying there is no need to exclude them from the Turkish competition.

One Western expert countered that "if, say, the Chinese win the competition, their systems will be in interaction, directly or indirectly, with NATO's intelligence systems, and this may lead to the leak of critical NATO information to the Chinese, albeit inadvertently. So this is dangerous."

"NATO won't let that happen," another Western official told the Hürriyet Daily News on Monday. "If the Chinese or the Russians win the Turkish contest, their systems will have to work separately. They won't be linked to NATO information systems."

This was the first time NATO has strongly urged Turkey against choosing the non-Western systems.
"One explanation is that Turkey itself doesn't plan to [ultimately] select the Chinese or Russian alternatives, but still is retaining them among their options to put pressure on the Americans and the Europeans to [lower] their prices," the Western expert said.

Turkey's long-range air and missile defense systems program (T-Loramids) has been designed to counter both enemy aircraft and missiles.

NATO missile shield
Turkey's national program is totally separate and independent from NATO's own plans to design, develop and build its own collective missile shield.

The Western alliance decided during a leaders' summit meeting in Lisbon in November last year to create the collective missile shield against potential incoming ballistic missiles from rogue countries. Ankara agreed to the decision only after the alliance accepted a Turkish request that Iran or other countries would not be specifically mentioned as potential sources of threats.

NATO now is seeking to deploy a special X-band radar in Turkish territory for the early detection of missiles launched from the region.

Senior U.S. and Turkish officials discussed the matter in mid-July in Istanbul on the sidelines of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and both sides reported progress toward an eventual deployment of the X-band radar on Turkish soil.

Ideally, in the event of a launch of a ballistic missile from a rogue state, it would be detected by the X-band radar, and U.S.-made SM-3 interceptors – based on U.S. Aegis destroyers to be deployed in the eastern Mediterranean and later possibly in Romania – would then be fired to hit the incoming missile mid-flight.


ECONOMY - NATO warns Turkey against buying Chinese, Russian air defense systems
 
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Don't be too negative. Good things always come out from even the most seemingly abject situations. I just hope that the Chinese deliver to the Turks the same missile defense tech in their front line service... :thumb:
Agree with you. Also the sale ought to be viewed under the following:

- Turkey is a Islamic nation
- Turkey is only Islamic nation in European Union region.
- Iraq policies by NATO towards Turkey
- Turkey relationship with Pakistan (and it's relationship PRC)
- The dialogue between western powers and Shia nations.
- The re-balance of Shia and Sunni in Western power equation.
- Turkey usefulness being eroded by regional developments.
- Turkey playing PRC of against NATO.
- Saudi Arabia PRC scud missiles (double standards)
- corruption
- the weapons being the best available and with the least strings attach
- Turkey military industrial complex confident it can survive.
 

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All I know is that Turkey is an Emperor with new clothes (or without it) without NATO. It can't even do anything decisive against Syria on its own.
 

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Good luck to Turkey!

Now the Americans can inspect the stuff and appreciate how far in technology China has reached in missile defence!
 
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Or the Americans have the Turks to thank for the opportunity to closely analyze Chinese missile defense tech... :thumb:
And the Chinese have the Turks to thank for the opportunity to closely analyze NATO C4ISR systems.

This cuts both ways.
 

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And the Chinese have the Turks to thank for the opportunity to closely analyze NATO C4ISR systems.

This cuts both ways.

You think they will allow you?
 

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