Turkey becomes world's fourth producer of smart bombs

Turkey has joined the United States, Israel and Russia as the fourth country in the world to produce smart bombs thanks to precision guidance technology developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), daily Hurriyet reported today. "Only three countries apart from Turkey have this technology, and there are already demands for our precision guidance kits from abroad," said Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat Ergun. "Local production of the kits is five times cheaper than importing,” he said. The smart bombs can be launched more than 25 kilometers, while ordinary bombs only have a range of five kilometers. The deviation, meanwhile, will not be more than five or six meters. TÜBİTAK worked on the project for five years.