Murat Çizgel, head of the industrialisation department at Türki̇ye‘s Secretariat of Defence Industries (SSB), gave a presentation at GICA, summarising his country’s changing approach to enhancing its defence industry. Türki̇ye is working on adopting a new approach to industrialisation that will move its current project-based approach to a company-based one.
The fourth edition of the Make it in the Emirates forum was held in Abu Dhabi on 19–22 May. This issue of the newsletter covers agreements signed on the sidelines of the event, which include cooperation on tanks and aerospace capabilities, radars, land systems and carbon anode exports.
Japan Steel Works is preparing to begin the local production of Finland’s Patria AMV 8x8 armoured vehicles, while the US’ Lockheed Martin has selected Fujitsu as the component units supplier for its SPY-7 radar.
Germany’s Rheinmetall and India’s Reliance Defence have entered a strategic partnership for the production of ammunition. Under the MoU signed on 22 May, Reliance Defence will supply Rheinmetall with explosives and propellants for medium and large calibre ammunition through a local production facility.
Turkey’s FNSS Defence Systems Inc and Belgium’s John Cockerill Defence will partner with Spain’s Technology and Security Developments (TSD) and Grupo Oesía to produce a 6x6 cavalry vehicle platform. Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin España signed an industrial cooperation agreement to support local firms Sener and Tecnobit-Grupo Oesía in the production of PAC-3 MSE components for global export.
Australia’s EOS Defence Systems and Greek defence and security firm EODH have signed an MoU to cooperate on the assembly in Greece of remote weapon systems (RWS). Under the agreement, EODH will oversee the local assembly of the EOS-designed RWS for upcoming Greek defence programmes.