Turkey's Great Power

Turkey is slowly but surely stepping into one of the world's largest defense equipment manufacturers in the world. This can not be separated from the dream of President Tayyip Erdogan to make the country as a major arms exporter of the world.

The Turkish government held an exhibition IDEF 2017 which is a Turkish-made military industry exhibition held Istanbul Turkey, ahad May 14, 2017.

In the exhibition is clearly visible development of Turkish military technology that will be applied in the future, some advanced technology works of Muslims.

A number of Muslim countries have signed military cooperation with Turkey including Azerbaijan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Malaysia has cooperated in AV8 armored vehicle, Indonesia cooperation in making medium Tank and built modern Stealth German Stealth U-214 ship by Golcuk Shipyard Istanbul. Indonesia also intends to buy UAV Drone from Turkey.

Until now, countries in the Middle East have become a potential market for producers of US, Russian, German, British, French, and other jet fighters.

Turkey, which belongs to the manufacturer of the F-16 fighter, which is a licensed production from the US, has even sold dozens of F-16s to Egypt.

TF-X stealth fighter: Turkey plans to utilize the skills it gained as an F-35 partner to build a local fighter. This is a big task for Turkey.
So far only Israel and Turkey countries in the Middle East will operate hundreds of F-35s.

What is clear the presence of F-35 for a country will be an heirloom that is difficult to compete with any country as long as the country concerned does not have fifth generation fighter jet.

Moreover, the new country has only a fourth-generation jet fighters who become '' blind '' because it can not detect fifth-generation fighter jets using radar.

Short and medium range missiles: Turkey is determined to add new local missiles in the first phase to replace AIM-9 and AIM-120 missiles in its inventory.

TF4500 stealth battleships, MilDEN submarines and TCG Anadolu: These are more ambitious programs for the Turkish Navy by leveraging the experience of constructing AIP Type 214 submarines to design and build new ship classes.

Altay Tank Production began to be reduced: Turkey began to face significant problems with power generation for these tanks.
Initially Turkey plans to use MTU machines. However, due to the worsening relations between Turkey and the EU over the past few months, there was an informal embargo in the export of licenses for military technology.