{"id":3778,"date":"2020-12-31T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T13:00:22","slug":"uk-unofficially-supports-turkish-defence-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"UK unofficially supports Turkish Defence Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an effort to find trading partners and with the possibility of a hard Brexit increasing over time, the UK informally strengthens its trade relations with Turkey even though Turkey is formally bound by a trade deal with the EU that does not allow it to enter into a trade deal with the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the defence sector, and in the field of military-technological cooperation, this UK-Turkey partnership may be informal, but it is becoming increasingly wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More specifically, we refer to the UK&#8217;s support for Turkey to complete the domestically built 5th generation aircraft titled TF-X (Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3779\"\/><figcaption><strong>Turkish 6th generation figther TF-X<\/strong> Photo by the website https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, for its part, has a broad military industry and has several technological achievements to show in the military field. It also has a national space program running which so far includes the implementation of experimental micro-satellite launch vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Aerospace Electronic (BAE) Systems has assisted Turkey in the design of TF-X while providing advisory support. In addition, there is an agreement between BAE Systems and TAI&#8217;s for TF-X engine to be Rolls-Royce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a matte move for the British as with the agreement with TF-X they succeed in shifting a significant part of the design project to the Turks without spending funds on it, but being able to finally obtain the final result of the development and integration of TF-X for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the UK will have access to all Turkish technological developments. Then, once the design, development and implementation of the TF-X is achieved at Turkey&#8217;s expense, the UK will be able to build its own 5<sup>th<\/sup>-6<sup>th<\/sup> generation aircraft fighter titled Tempest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2019, Rolls-Royce withdrew from the Turkish project and now the new TF-X engine will be based on the American engine of General Electric F110 belonging to the TRM consortium. But the main partner of Turkish Aerospace Industries will be BAE Systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, and on 16 November 2020, a joint exercise of British and Turkish fighters took place on a Turkish base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to find trading partners and with the possibility of a hard Brexit increasing over time, the UK informally strengthens its trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[2245,2246,2248,2247,143,216],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-bae-systems","tag-tai","tag-tempest","tag-tf-x","tag-turkey","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}