Svenska Saab och Turkiska Roketsan har skrivit avtal

Defence and security company Saab and ROKETSAN have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) covering future collaboration on Anti-tank Missile Systems.

Under the terms of the agreement signed at the EUROSATORY 2014 Exhibition in Paris, France, the two companies will work together to develop a new system to fill the gap in the short to medium range Anti-tank missile market. The MoU was signed by Görgen Johansson, Head of Saab’s Business Area Dynamics and ROKETSAN President & CEO, Selcuk Yasar.

Görgen Johansson said: ”We see a great potential in a future cooperation with Roketsan in the anti-tank market and look forward to further exploring the possibilities together in this partnership.”

Selcuk Yasar said: “We look forward to explore a new system to leads us to Global Market together with Saab. In this manner, investigating cooperation opportunities including the marketing of our weapon systems will be our main converging driving force. We hope the result of this initiative will lead to broader business cooperation in the future between the two companies.”

Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security. Saab has operations and employees on all continents and constantly develops, adopts and improves new technology to meet customers’ changing needs.