Turkey's move, along with Greece, to join the German-led European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) last February has prompted some experts to assess that the project might in the long-run provide opportunities for Turkey's locally produced and owned defense industry products.

The ESSI, a defense project involving 21 European countries, was launched in 2022, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that year, to develop a land-based, integrated, multilayered air and missile defense system using platforms made in Europe as well as in the United States and Israel. Industry experts believe........

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