Turkey to extend deadline to send revised offers for purchase air defense missile system 3001142
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Thursday, January 30, 2014 09:54 AM | |||
Turkey to extend deadline to send revised offers for the purchase of air defense missile system. | |||
Turkey has again extended the deadline for bidding companies to send revised offers for its anti-ballistic missile air defense system. The new deadline for rival bidding companies to submit their proposals is April 30, allowing U.S. company Raytheon Co and Lockheed Martin Corp and Italian-French team Eurosam SAMP/T to revise their offers and try to head off a Chinese company, with which Turkey is still in talks. | |||
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Turkey announced its decision to negotiate with China’s Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp. (CPMIEC) to co-produce FD-2000 anti-ballistic missile system. | |||
Turkey announced its decision to negotiate with China’s Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp. (CPMIEC) to co-produce anti-ballistic missile system last September. It then extended the deadline to Jan. 31, after firm statements from NATO and U.S. officials that the Chinese FD-2000’s (the export version of Chinese-made HQ-9) would not be interoperable with the NATO defense architecture. Turkish leaders said the deal had yet to be finalized, and that Ankara remained open to new offers from the other two bidders. In September 2013, Turkey has announced that the Chinese Company CPMIEC was selected to co-produce a $4 billion long-range air and missile defense system. | |||
The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system is manufactured by the U.S. Companies Raytheon / Lockheed Martin. | |||
The SAMP/T missile system has been developed by Eurosam, jointly owned by MBDA Missile Systems and Thales. | |||