In this issue

4 DEFENCE NEWS
■ New Achievements for ASELSAN in Exports
■ An Exemplary Approach by TEI for the Next 20 Years
■ TurAF Displays New Capabilities
■ OSSA Carries the Turkish Flag to Canada and Brazil
■ TAI’s New Administrative Board Takes the Helm
■ ROKETSAN Enters a New Period with a New Shareholders and Board
■ Defence Sector’s Problems Discussed
■ TAI’s Virtual Factory Management System Receives Productivity Award
■ First Turkish Student Joins Honeywell’s Training Programme
■ Growing Interest in National Instruments’ Aerospace and Defence Symposium
16 INTERVIEW / Yakup Taşdelen, Head of the Unmanned and Smart Systems Department: “More Flight Hours will Facilitate the Improvement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”
28 SPECIAL COVERAGE / ASELSAN Provides an Account of its Current Status on the eve of IDEF
32 SPECIAL COVERAGE / MTA TURKUAZ takes to the High Seas
34 ADVERTORIAL Defence Industry Solutions from BİAS Engineering
36 SPECIAL COVERAGE / Nova Power Solutions Arrives in Turkey to Improve Power Quality
38 SPECIAL COVERAGE / The Growing Importance of Air Power Discussed at ICAP 2015
40 SPECIAL COVERAGE / Airbus Focuses on Support Services
44 ADVERTORIAL TAMÇELİK: A Single Centre for all Heat Treatment Services
46 SPECIAL COVERAGE / TAI Completes Delivery of Modernized F-16s to Turkish Air Forces Command
50 SPECIAL COVERAGE / FİGES Increases Awareness of the Regional Aircraft
54 SPECIAL COVERAGE / K. Nail Kurt Takes the Helm at SASAD
58 SPECIAL COVERAGE / TUSAŞ and Airbus Strengthen Ties
62 ANALYSIS / Transparent Armour Systems and General Applications
70 SPECIAL COVERAGE / SSM and ASELSAN: Creating a World Brand in Software-Based
Radios
74 EVENTS / ■ H.E.James Larsen, Australian Ambassador to Turkey: Turkey and Australia: Long Distance, Close Friends ■ H.E. Jonathan Andrew Curr,New Zealand Ambassador to Turkey: New Zealand Closes Distances ■ New Appointment to the Brazilian Defence
Attaché’s Office in Ankara ■ Islamic Republic of Iran Celebrates Armed Forces Day

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.