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products, which have proven
                                                                                their performance in the field,
                                                                                played a significant role in
                                                                                Azerbaijan’s glorious victory in
                                                                                Karabakh.”

                                                                                Ikinci added, “Roketsan will con-
                                                                                tinue to strengthen Azerbaijan
                                                                                and the Azerbaijani armed
                                                                                forces with advanced technol-
                                                                                ogy products, just as we have
                                                                                in the past and will in the future.
                                                                                As Türkiye and Roketsan, we
                                                                                will continue to provide all kinds
                                                                                of opportunities and support to
                                                                                Azerbaijan.”

                                                                                The integration of Turkish and
        existing relations are success-     software and hardware company       Azerbaijani armed forces is
        fully continuing,” President Aliyev   Havelsan.                         advanced in all areas, besides in
        said recently.                                                          training and exercises.
                                            Havelsan also aims to use the
                                            super-modern “Advent” combat
        The strength and power of the                                           “In addition to experience sharing,
        military industrial complex of      management system in the newly      significant work is being done in the
        Azerbaijan, which played an excep-  built maritime patrol ships in      defence industry. Soon, the produc-
        tional role in the liberation of its   Azerbaijan. This solution addresses   tion of the most modern weapons
        territories recognized by the interna-  the demands of force-oriented,   and equipment, or their parts, will
        tional community, and the modern    network-centric naval operations,   begin in Azerbaijan, he said.
        weapons produced in the country     as opposed to traditional single
        were on display at the recently con-  ship-centric approaches.          Turkish defence firm Assan recently
        cluded 5th Anniversary Azerbaijan                                       announced that it is working to build
        International Defense Exhibition                                        an aerial bomb production facility in
        “ADEX-2024”.                                                            Azerbaijan.

        Azerbaijan’s Defence Minister Zakir
        Hasanov is also of the opinion that                                     “It is pleasing to see the rapid
        his country will meet its needs for                                     development of Türkiye’s
        modern weapons, equipment and                                           defense industry. Now we have
        ammunition by taking advantage of                                       the capability to meet 70 per
        Türkiye’s capabilities.                                                 cent of our own needs. We’re
                                                                                not just talking about Bayraktar
        Turkish defence firm Aselsan will                                       and Akinci UAVs, the Turkish
        be providing Azerbaijan with Tolun                                      defense industry has advanced
        glide bomb and ASELFLIR-500                                             greatly in other areas as well.
        electro-optical system for use on                                       Azerbaijan is certainly benefit-
        the country’s new Bayraktar Akıncı                                      ing from this, and efforts in this
        unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).                                        direction are progressing rap-
                                                      Aselflir-500
        Aselsan will also be providing                                          idly,” the minister said.
        Azerbaijan with the Aselflir-500    Turkiye’s leading rocket and mis-
        electro-optical system for use on   sile technology firm, Roketsan’s    The goal, for Azerbaijan, is to
        these UAVs.                         General Manager Murat Ikinci        advance further by producing own
                                            recently said, “The bond of friend-  missiles and ammunition and lever-
        Azerbaijan’s armed forces are       ship and brotherhood between        aging Türkiye’s capabilities for joint
        also all set to integrate advanced   Türkiye and Azerbaijan reflects    production of modern weapons and
                                                                                equipment..
        technologies developed by Turkish   in the defense industry. Our
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