Speaking at the Doha Forum held in Qatar, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu made statements on a possible partnership between Turkey in the SAMP/T air defense system project. Çavuşoğlu said, “Our President met with the leaders of Italy and France. The most important issue was EUROSAM. We signed a letter of intent with EUROSAM 8 years ago, but nothing has happened until today. Now these two countries are thinking more seriously about realizing joint production in Turkey.” made statements.
As reported by the BBC, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the NATO Summit in March 2022, announced that the cooperation between Turkey-France-Italy would be revived, and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who answered the questions of the journalists on his return, said that within the scope of the cooperation of the three countries, EUROSAM SAMP He stated that /T.
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SAMP/T system; Eurosam is an air defense missile system jointly developed by MBDA and Thales companies. SAMP/T; It uses Aster-15 and Aster-30 air defense missiles, which are effective against threats such as ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, warplanes and UAV / SİHA.
The SAMP/T air defense missile system was put into service in the Italian and French armies in July 2008. As of 2020, the Italian armed forces have a total of 20 SAMP/T units. A SAMP/T battery works in coordination with 8 launch vehicles each carrying missiles, 1 command and control unit, 1 radar vehicle, 1 generator vehicle and 1 maintenance and repair vehicle.
Aster missiles used by SAMP/T are in active use in the British Navy as well as in France and Italy. The Aster-15 used for medium altitude has a range of 30+ km, a maximum altitude of 13 km, a maximum speed of 3 Mach and a weight of 310 kg, while the Aster-30 used for high-altitude and long-range targets has a range of 120 km, a maximum altitude of 20 km, a maximum speed of 4.5 Mach and has a weight of 450 kg.
Source: defenceturk
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