Good Morning!
I like to keep my refs handy in my "favorites" it's easy for me to hold them, get them, paste them and when finished delete them. So here's a couple of news items I've been holding until after I got my first patch page for 6.0 (?) posted. Now it's time to filter out more in preps for the next post.
1. With the cooperation between Israel and Turkey having gone so well until a few months ago, it was thought that Turkey would be the first country to benefit from the export of the MERKAVA and possibly the TIGER APC. It might've offered Turkey a cheaper alternative to pursuing the ALTAY program (The first test prototypes are not expected until 2013.) but things have chilled after the GAZA resupply incidents this past summer in which at one eight Turkish citizens were killed by Israeli forces. Also earlier this week Turkey removed from their "Red Book" several countries not friendly to Israel such as Syria further straining relations. Now it seems Columbia is now mentioned as a front runner, only time will tell.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/glob...did=1000598168
The Red Book issue:
http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/695/
But maybe perception isn't reality, you be the judge.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4577398
2. Ukraine to upgrade Peru's T-55 tanks, welcome the TIFON-2.
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/18826/
Pics;
Don't want to be timed out!!
Regards,
Pat