That's not the case at all. Bayraktar TB2 has a very high locality rate, more than 93%. It never turned out to be "imported and assembled."
If you read what
@GoatsMilk says, he is quoting a situation in the past.
The engine was Austrian Rotax licensed by Canada, propeller German, Flir Wescam Canada, fuel pump and bomb rack British, almost all electronic stuff was of foreign origin.
The Fuselage and most importantly the software and design was Turkish.
Buying parts that are cheaper to import, does not make a plane Non-Turkish. I find this fixation on local manufacturing of all parts a bit silly. If you can obtain it easily and cheaply without restrictions, why not import it?
After the Karabakh war, in came the embargoes. Then the engine and many parts were indigenously manufactured. Today the locality percentage of TB2 is much higher.
Producing every single part in house puts too much pressure on local companies and those parts can be more expensive to manufacture as well. But critical parts that are difficult to obtain will have to be sourced locally.
In short what makes TB2 a success, is the software and overall design of the plane as a whole. Not the individual parts that constitute it.
I find it totally unsupportive and silly to blame a company of outsourcing foreign parts. Yes, by all means, give local manufacturers the right of first refusal. But that is all.
In long term, humans are condemned to kneel to robots. Future will be theirs not us thanks to our greed and curiosity.
