Department of Foreign Policy National Institute for Strategic Studies. Cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey in the fi eld of military-industrial complex in the context of strategic partnership between the two countries

Ukraine and Turkey are united by a set of factors that have developed histori cally and serve as the basis for fruitful cooperation in the area of military-industrial complex. The two countries have achieved intensive development of the military industrial complex in diff erent periods. For Ukraine, this is the Soviet period, the 1930s and 1980s, and for Turkey, the last three decades. Turkey is engaged in the development of digital defence technologies, while Ukraine develops the production technology base. Ukraine and Turkey have great prospects for cooperation in many areas, including digital communication systems, strike drones, high-precision weap ons, radar systems, active defence systems for armoured vehicles, transport aircraft, engines, and shipbuilding. The example of the military campaign in Karabakh, in particular the capabilities and eff ectiveness of drones in modern warfare, established the importance of this experience for Ukraine, which can be used both in military combat and in special operations and sabotage against individual members of enemy command and control objects. Endless confl icts in the global south continue to create new opportunities for the export of high-tech products of Ukrainian and Turkish gunsmiths. Establishment of a system of strategic communications between Ukraine and Turkey in the area of the military-industrial complex operation is pos sible through the development of a plan of future actions to anticipate all possible scenarios. Therefore, the authors of the study establish that the strategic partnership between Ukraine and Turkey not only helps strengthen Ukraine’s defence capabilities and obtain the latest models of armaments for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also increases the export potential of the currently existing military-industrial complex.