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In the 145 attack helicopters production program, American Boeing's Apache Longbow and Bell-Textron's King Cobra, German-French consortium Eurocopter's Tiger, Ka-50/2, to be produced by the cooperation of Russian Kamov and Israel, and Italian Agusta's Mangusta A-129A type helicopters are competing. The evaluation in the Defense Industry Undersecretariat has already been completed. Now the Prime Minister, the General Staff and the Defense Minister will come together before the meeting of the the executive committee. The meeting is expected to be held later this month. (Hurriyet, Metehan Demir)
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Ankara
cornered in a 4-billion-dollar helicopter tender between the US and Europe. Turkey will decide on whether to prefer a
European Company, as
an EU-candidate country, or the US, who supports her in the international
arena.
