USA makes Abrams tank. With today’s money it comes to around 9.8 million dollars each. We make Altay with “cheap Turkish work force” . It comes to over 16 million dollars each. There are economies of scale here in play. But also a lot of middle men creaming the top. SOM and Atmaca missiles cost almost as much as the US counterparts. Atak129 helicopter costs 50 million dollars. For 3 Super cobra helicopters in 2011 we paid 111 million dollars. 37 million each. But with today’s money it will be over 40 million. So the real prices that Turkish MOD pays for these, are similar to US equivalents.
But most of the money does not leave the country and that's what is worth it even if we would pay a little more than us counterparts