21.12.2004, 22:17
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ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey has decided to maintain a key element of its electronic warfare helicopter program.
Officials said Turkey would retain the counter-measures dispensing system and the missile warning system of the estimated $400 million Helicopter Electronic Warfare Suite. The project has been led by the Turkish state-owned Aselsan along with foreign partners.
On July 14, Turkey's Defense Minstry Defense Industries Undersecretariat, known by its Turkish acronym, SSM, announced the cancellation of elements of the HEWS project, launched in 1997. Later, officials said the canceled elements would encompass the communications aspect of the project.
Under the July decision, the Defense Ministry shelved plans for the coproduction of a radar warning receiver with a radio frequency jammer as well as a laser warning receiver. Officials said SSM hoped that Aselsan would design such equipment without foreign participation.