International Aircraft Companies Monitoring on HAVELSAN
Havelsan, the Turkish defence company that moved from simulator repair business to the position of a simulator manufacturer competing with world giants, is receiving orders from all over the world.
Noting that they attracted the attention of world aircraft companies with the contracts they had signed, Havelsan Business Development Director Mukaddes Burhan said: “World aircraft companies keep coming for negotiations to have their simulators manufactured by us”.
Mr Burhan pointed that the gains made by Turkish engineers had turned into an element of confidence abroad and stated that the full flight simulator CN235 which they had supplied to the Air Force Command of South Korea had successfully passed the acceptance tests on location and had been formally accepted by the Defence Ministry of South Korea. Reminding that the simulator had been shipped to South Korea on Antanov cargo aircraft from Esenboğa last year in a ceremony attended by State Minister Kürşad Tüzmen, Mr Burhan emphasized that the Defence Minister of South Korea had also participated in the acceptance tests of the simulator in Turkey.
Noting that they had developed the avionic modelling, flight and consol software of the simulator and its synthetic environment simulation software and system integration, he said:
“Over the last 10 years in Turkey, a sector led by Havelsan has been created, especially in the area of training simulators”. He stated that this technical and commercial achievement was an important development for Havelsan to increase its export potential in South Korea, which he described as an important ally market for Havelsan. Mr Burhan spoke as follows: “We are justly proud of having proven the correctness of the vision that the Air Force maintained in its confidence and patience for Havelsan in our rising from the career of simulator repair which we started ten years ago with foreign support to the position of a simulator designer and manufacturer.” Training simulator delivered to Turkish Air Force Stating that, in addition to projects carried out abroad by Havelsan, they had also executed considerable projects at home, Mr Burhan said: “In December 2006, we experienced a similar moment of happiness during the delivery of the F-4E 2020 Flight Training and Weapon Systems Training Simulator whose acceptance tests were completed at the First Main Jet Base Command.”
We have risen from repair business to simulator manufacturing Reminding that the Havelsan Simulator Group had started in 1996 the activities of maintenance, repair and operation of the existing simulators of the Air Force Command, Mr Burhan spoke as follows: “Before even two years passed, two of the existing T- 38 simulators were modified as F-5 and NF5 simulators. Within a few years of this achievement, with our developing capabilities, we embarked upon simulator maintenance for the Army Command. Later, we began to specialize by developing the Artillery Forward Observation and Mortar simulators.” Attributing the transition of Havelsan to mastership to the projects of F-4E 2020 Flight and Weapon Systems Training Simulator and CN- 235 Full Flight Simulator, Mr Burhan stated that the way to the CN-235 simulator for the Air Force Command of South Korea had been opened with the Turkish Air Force support. He noted that they had also developed the Blackhawk and Seahawk simulators under the Helicopter Simulators (HELSIM) project whose contract they had signed with the SSM.
Noting that the manufactured simulators incorporated the most complex technologies currently available, Mr Burhan underlined that these simulators could be converted into the test ground of other avionic and weapon configurations, if desired, and of the total platform if necessary.
