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U.S, Turkey sign agreement on SOM production

Business Materials 23 October 2014 14:28 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 23

By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:

The Turkish company ROKETSAN and the U.S. company Lockheed Martin signed an agreement on joint production of Stand off Missiles (SOM) for F-35 aircraft, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported Oct. 23 citing Adviser of the Secretariat of the Turkish Defense Industry Ismail Demir.

These missiles will be manufactured for Turkey and to sell to neighboring countries.

Earlier it was reported that the project is under completion. The project has been implemented by the Research and Development Institute of the Turkish Ministry of Defense Industry (Tubitak-SAGE) since 2006. The first controlled missile flight took place in August 2011.

SOM missile was designed in several stages with gradual complication. The basic version of SOM-A is a 610-kilogram hardly noticeable winged missile designed to hit stationary and moving ground and surface targets at a range up to 200 km.

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