KYIV, Aug 12 – Ukrspecexport, part of defense group Ukroboronprom, and the Turkish company Baykar Defense, which is one of the leading manufacturers of drones, have created a joint venture in the field of precision weapons and aerospace technologies, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) reported.

The main task of the joint venture is to combine the capacities of the defense complexes of the two countries for the mass production of new models of modern weapons for their own armies. This will allow transferring from conventional arms sales and purchase contracts to a fundamentally new level of cooperation: the synergy of defense technologies and combination of advanced developments in Turkey and Ukraine, the NSDC said.