Published October 29,2024
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned on Tuesday that Türkiye aimed to have its personal “Steel Dome” multi-layered air defence system quickly, including that Ankara would additionally enhance its long-range missile capabilities.
NATO member Türkiye has lately considerably decreased its dependence on exterior suppliers of defence tools. It has develop into a number one producer of armed drones for the worldwide market and produces a lot of its personal defence wants at dwelling.
Speaking at a ceremony in Ankara to inaugurate the home-made Gokbey helicopter to be used by the gendarmerie on the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS), which was focused by a lethal YPG/PKK assault final week, Erdoğan mentioned: “It is understood much better now how vitally important our multi-layered air defence systems are for our security. If they (Israel) have an ‘Iron Dome’, we will have a ‘Steel Dome’. We won’t look at them and say ‘why don’t we have this’.”
“We will increase our long-range missile capabilities during this period too,” he added, saying Türkiye would “not rest” till it achieved full independence within the defence trade.
Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system was constructed to intercept rockets fired into its territory. It grew to become operational in 2011, and makes use of truck-towed models of radar-guided missiles to explode short-range threats like rockets, mortars and drones in mid-air.
It additionally deployed a naval model of the Iron Dome in 2017 to guard ships and sea-based property.
The system determines whether or not a rocket is heading in the right direction to hit a populated space; if not, the rocket is ignored and allowed to land harmlessly.
The United States imposed sanctions on Türkiye’s defence trade in December 2020 over its NATO ally’s acquisition of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system. It additionally expelled Ankara from the F-35 stealth fighter jet programme, the place it was a producer and purchaser.
Source: www.anews.com.tr