MSI Turkish Defence Review Magazine - 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