The Arabist named the US competitors in the arms market in the Middle East

Only Turkey, Iran and Israel actually produce their own weapons in the Middle East region, Danila Krylov, a researcher at the Department of the Middle and Post-Soviet East at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a conversation with Izvestia. The main competitor of the United States, in his opinion, can only be Turkey.

"The Arabs don't particularly buy Iranian products, and there are questions about how independent Iran is technically, given that it buys some of its equipment from Russia, China and other players," the expert noted.

He added that Israel produces a lot of equipment for itself, including F-35 aircraft, but Turkey also produces a lot of different weapons.

"These are not only Bayraktar drones, but also Altai tanks, KAAN planes, armored personnel carriers, Kirpi armored vehicles, etc. The Turks have a lot of their own equipment, this is due to their foreign policy ideologies and ambitions. In particular, with long-cherished plans to transform the Organization of Turkic States from a political into a military-political organization," the source said.

Read more about the rivalry between the United States and Turkey for the market in the Middle East in the Izvestia article.

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