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First Turkish MRAP armoured personnel carrier Kirpi will soon be exported Iraq Afghanistan 0108111.
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| First Turkish MRAP armoured personnel carrier Kirpi will soon be exported in Iraq and Afghanistan. | |||
Turkey's
first indigenously produced MRAP mine resistant vehicle, the "Kirpi"
already in service with the Turkish armed forces, will soon be exported
to Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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Built by Turkey's BMC Turkish
Defence company, the Kirpi
was delivered to the Turkish armed forces for a total of 150 vehicles,
and has orders for 350 more. The Defense Industry Manufacturers Association, or SaSad, noted in a report that the 2009 export figures represented a 16 percent increase over 2008, which was $576 million and that the increase came "despite the global financial crisis." SaSad data indicate, Turkey's defense industry exported arms worth $331 million in 2003, $196 million in 2004, $337 million in 2005, $352 million in 2006 and $420 million in 2007. Of the 2008 exports, 33 percent were involved to space and aviation, 29 percent in land vehicles and other platforms, 13 percent in electronics and electro-optics exports, 9 percent apiece to weapons, ammunition, rockets, missiles, software and information technologies and another 7 percent in other miscellaneous sectors. |
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