Transfer of Military Technology to Developing Countries: The Turkish Case

Abstract

There is a switch from direct arms sales to military technology transfer to produce arms in the name of self-sufficiency. The value of domestic arms production at the beginning of the 1980s was about 500 times higher than that at the beginning of the 1950s. By the early 1980s, more than 50 developing countries were producing weapons. The evidence indicates that Turkey has relatively enough arms production potential. However there is a technological gap which needs to be closed. Turkey should first follow a 'path strategy' to create a minimum required technological base by using some form of military technology transfer. Then, in the efforts toward indigenous arms production, an 'engineering strategy' may be applied. Keywords: Technology transfer; Weapons production; Weapons transfer; Procurement. Theses. (EDC)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA212064

Entities

People

  • Aziz Akgul

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Chemistry
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • International Organizations
  • International Trade
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Organizational Structure

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies