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Is it a wise choice for Eurodrone consortium members to get both Eurodrone and Akıncı ?
Eurodrone project is in the freezer and I don't think even with the new barrage of funding they will be able to get it going again. Smart countries like Spain, Italy and hopefully Britain will start moving towards more collaboration with Turkey as we are right now the most dynamic country in the entire continent. They can get a lot of bang for their buck and we can get some good money and relations.

I'm waiting to see how our decision makers will F this one up.
 

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Eurodrone project is in the freezer and I don't think even with the new barrage of funding they will be able to get it going again. Smart countries like Spain, Italy and hopefully Britain will start moving towards more collaboration with Turkey as we are right now the most dynamic country in the entire continent. They can get a lot of bang for their buck and we can get some good money and relations.

I'm waiting to see how our decision makers will F this one up.
wasn't nurol makina even a runner up in the UK land vehicle tender for like 3 tausend vehicles i mean they even built a plant in the Uk. Also germany and france are unlikely to abandon eurodrone even if buying italian akincis would make more sense and perhaps akinci XL.
 

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wasn't nurol makina even a runner up in the UK land vehicle tender for like 3 tausend vehicles i mean they even built a plant in the Uk. Also germany and france are unlikely to abandon eurodrone even if buying italian akincis would make more sense and perhaps akinci XL.
Akinci and Eurodrone are not directly competing with each other. For ex, Eurodrone is twice as heavier than Akinci and carrying 2.3 ton payload. Naturally much more expensive. Besides ED is not ready.

Btw, actions of management team of Baykar is almost perfect to be honest.

It is not something we see that everyday in our country

 

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It is a win-win agreement due to Baykar reaching the EU market but Italy got the better deal. We solved many issues about high tech subsystems like radars and EO systems on the other hand Italy needs to spend big money and invest a lot of time to develop UAVs similar to Baykar UAVs.
 

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Akinci and Eurodrone are not directly competing with each other. For ex, Eurodrone is twice as heavier than Akinci and carrying 2.3 ton payload. Naturally much more expensive. Besides ED is not ready.

Btw, actions of management team of Baykar is almost perfect to be honest.

It is not something we see that everyday in our country

True. Both sides emphasized the fact that they were neither directly nor indirectly were involved in any product competition in the market and that was one of the main reason that they got along so fast, so easy.
 

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wasn't nurol makina even a runner up in the UK land vehicle tender for like 3 tausend vehicles i mean they even built a plant in the Uk.
That tender is not yet announced.

What does he mean by that?
Probably relating to Italian subsystems sold to drones in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Ukraine.
 

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