Well this ties in with what the scale, estimated production number and quality control/assurance is needed.
There are many factors here that can definitely give alternative route with appropriate RnD and validation used.
Consider what is a capital investment cost of machinery used to make thousands of parts a year for commercial sector that can be directly dual use for military/research or leveraged for it....and will be expected to operate for decades even given assured need for it.
Then compare with military/research kind of machinery and parts of same field, but they only have production need of say 10 years for a program and a lot can also simply be throughput early too (rather than keep the line open over whole duration).
The much less raw production intensity/need of latter definitely open up more options for alternatives.
Having the former (large capital already established by vast scale of general commerce + MIC intermesh) lessens need for alternative route similarly, as such countries simply leverage off that...rather than spend resource and time to innovate new ways for smaller specific production runs etc.
Turkey will be very interesting case "sweetspot" study for me personally as:
A) I do not know much about it's Industries and Research output like I do some other countries (who's papers, interactions and legacy form basis of lot of my career and expertise). It is more mystery to me that I am working on reading here and other places.
B) It has geopolitical flux going on we all know, so it creates pressure for alternatives like what you and others describe
C) It has credible scientific and technical pool established, but its not a case of easy over-abundance of it, so it will have to make smart policy and decision on it, and soon given inertia such things carry into 10 - 20 year time frames
All these factors are main reason I got interested in Turkey (esp at PDF where there was a good collection of members that I have followed their migration here) past my original Turcophile tendency and interest (somewhat strange/rare for Indian I know but it is what it is).
It is actually interesting personal story that maybe one day I will go into more depth about in both general interest way but also specific direct way in my life in another kind of A--B--C way as initially I had soft cultural nicety/influence from Turkey in childhood, then developed friends from Turkey (and had a teacher who loved and took such keen interest in Turkey and shaped my further interest in it) in my teens....and then quite direct way later on during university I had not 1 but 2 Turkish professors very connected to my research area and career (1 of them is probably you can say the top 1% guy in Canada regarding thermodynamics research).
I hope to bring things together a bit later in 2021 in my gas turbine thread (which you can find in my signature) w.r.t. Turkey and other countries in the "sweetspot" zone that makes things interesting as they have lot of forces, pressures and choices to make with the capacities they have built and established (rather than just leave things to idle inertia like many other countries with more assured capacity and less pressures can do).
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