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发帖数: 10330 | 1 Bargain on national missile set ‘warms up’
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet
The race for Turkey’s missile tender, worth $4 billion, is warming up, with
China bidding below $3 billion and thus forcing the U.S. to decrease its
offer in order to stay in the competition, anonymous sources have claimed.
Despite representatives of Raytheon declining to comment on the tender
process, according to the sources the U.S. firm has been working hard to
rehabilitate its offer for the Patriot system.
The protracted tender process for Turkey’s national long-range missile
defense system was anticipated to be finalized during the Defense Industry
Executive Board’s meeting last month.
For the estimated $4 billion contract, the pan-European company Eurosam,
maker of the Surface-to-Air Missile Platform/Terrain Aster 30 system, is
competing with a Raytheon-Lockheed partnership marketing Patriots; Russia’s
Rosoboronexport, marketing the S-300 system; and China Precision Machinery
Export-Import Corp., offering its HQ-9.
However, the tender was delayed due to China’s move to haul prices down to
almost half the original.
The other bidders are now striving to revise their offers.
Another possible reason for the delay is the deployment of U.S.-made Patriot
missiles provided by NATO along the Syria border, which could nullify
Turkey’s own program to build long-range anti-missile and air defense
systems on its soil, according to industry sources.
Meanwhile, many Western officials and experts say the Russian and Chinese
systems in the Turkish competition are not compatible with NATO systems. The
fear is that either country’s potential victory could inadvertently
provide it with access to classified NATO information, and, as a result, may
compromise NATO’s procedures.
Despite this criticism, Turkey so far has resisted dropping the Chinese and
Russian options.
January/31/2013
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