Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday received the head of Turkish defense company Baykar in the capital Baku.
In a statement, the Azerbaijani presidency said that during the meeting with Selcuk Bayraktar, Aliyev underlined the achievements of Türkiye’s defense industry in recent years, adding that Baykar’s operations played a leading role in this regard.
The statement said Aliyev “highlighted the role of the products manufactured by the company in the destruction of Armenian invaders’ military equipment during the Patriotic War.”
“The successful development of friendly and brotherly relations between Azerbaijan and Türkiye in all fields including the military and defense industry was stressed during the conversation. They also shared views on prospects for cooperation,” it further said.
Bayraktar, for his part, conveyed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s greetings to Aliyev and thanked him for the aid provided to Türkiye in the aftermath of the February earthquakes.
More than 50,000 people were killed by the back-to-back quakes in Türkiye, according to the latest official figures. Thousands of others were injured.
Aliyev, according to the statement, recalled his recent meeting with Erdogan in Ankara.
He said that the Turkish president’s visits to Azerbaijani territories liberated from Armenia’s occupation are of “particular importance,” it added.
Bayraktar thanked Aliyev for his “warm hospitality.”
"We will continue to work for our #KIZILELMAs, the common future of #OneNationTwoStates," he said on Twitter.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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Baykar, the world’s leading UCAV exporter, has signed a partnership agreement with Leonardo, one of the largest defense companies globally. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will collaborate on UCAV production in Italy. This partnership will combine Baykar’s expertise in UCAVs and artificial intelligence technology with Leonardo’s strengths in mission systems, payloads, and certification. The collaboration will also extend into the field of space technologies.
Bayraktar TB3 UCAV which Baykar developed indigenously and originally, continues its test flights without slowing down. The total flight time of Bayraktar TB3, whose two prototypes performed test flights during the tests that lasted throughout the week, reached 272 hours and 47 minutes.
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