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India-Pakistan
Turkey to sell 30 ATAK helicopters to Pakistan in major military export deal
2018-07-14
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
 and Pakistain have finalized a deal for the sale of 30 multi-role and all-weather TAI/AgustaWestland T129 ATAK attack helicopters in an agreement that has been billed as one of Ankara’s largest single defense industry exports.

"Contract negotiations on T129 ATAK helicopters between Ottoman Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and the Pak Ministry of Defense Production were finalized," Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency cited the Ottoman Turkish Defense Industries Undersecretariat (SSB) as saying on Friday.

Military sources, requesting anonymity, said the helicopters will be delivered gradually over five years, and that the TAI has also agreed to provide logistics, spare parts, training, and ammunition services.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Anadolu in November 2017, former Pak Minister for Defense Production and Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer Hussain said his country planned to procure 30 attack helicopters and four naval ships from Turkey.

On July 5, Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said Ankara had won a tender to build four corvettes for the Pakistain Navy, describing the deal as "the largest defense export of Turkey in one agreement."
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