[000:00:00;00] what's new i haven't had time to see a lot of things yet, it's still being put in order in general, we come early in the morning and leave late in the evening i have a question, you yourself participate from time to time yes but this is new for us try it of course

i'm sorry everything is fine and i hope the second part too it will work er thank you very much for agreeing to this interview it is a great honor for us er to be here at your company and it is really impressive what we saw er it does not resemble a defense plant at all and first of all thank you very much for what your heroes are help us to win. first of all, i would like to say that i am glad to see you here on october 10. on

ukraine , an unprecedented drone attack was carried out. the most high-tech answer, and i have a question for you. and how are you, the bayraktar brothers? your father is a light to his memory. how did you understand that the future lies behind these products? why did you put a bike on them? technologies of unmanned combat aircraft and today only this and so for 20 years. that is, we started it as a calm father 20 years ago, at that time we threw a kind of challenge because at that time turkish defense defense in such technological areas

was highly dependent on other countries, especially from america or western countries, due to this dependence , turkey suffered a lot in the process of its development, for example, even for money , they did not provide us with certain technological weapons, the same unmanned aerial vehicles. and if they did, then put in the conditions where and when we can use them precisely in order to break this closed circle we put on this unmanned military technology, receiving many critics at the time at the conferences we attended, we made a statement that these uav technologies are very critical, it was as a kind of outbreak of lawsuits, it was assumed that turkey, with the help of this special technology, would be able to break this closed circle and transform this paradism, we saw the future of this case in the military sphere

, this is exactly the strategy we defined for ourselves damn, how much your business depends on turkish politics , i will give an example so that you understand, well, look, when our fighters caught the first iranian mansion and dismantled it. and for the turks - this is for you, for your company , do you consider the production of drones purely as just business or are you guided by some uh, well , your principles, of course,

we consider this matter as an opportunity for turkey to have our independence and we believe that an independent and strong future of turkey can be achieved only by taking similar steps and taking certain measures in these areas that change the rules of the game. thus, it passed from my father to us. made a profit , the main priority for us is what we achieved, this is always the most important thing, for example, with regard to ukraine. we also demonstrated this position . this is how companies, when ordinary people under during the war, we collected a little bit of money and contributed to the collection of funds at the b-2 birakart in order to fight the threat, children sold cherries and the proceeds were poured into it.

and we will give you a plane, this is about humanity, this difficult period that ukraine is living in, we felt it was our duty to demonstrate our humane position and we responded to all these campaigns with a single decision : we will not take this money under any circumstances use them for ukraine, and we, in turn, provide you with airplanes. absolutely free of charge, this does not mean that each country should carry out this work separately. turkey and ukraine are a good example of mutual complementarity and support. two allied countries can complement each other and create alliances that strengthen both . defense industrial strategy of turkey and ukraine shows a very good example of this very effective - this rapprochement was in recent years, you probably know the lithuanian journalist

andres tapis, who collected for the bayraktar collected 6 dollars for a byraktar and as a result they presented the ministry of defense of lithuania and the lithuanian people with this barraktar in order for them to hand it over to ukraine, i am asking him now if you had the opportunity to talk to the top officials to tell them, well, first of all , he said, once again, thank you very much the same is true of the lithuanian people and probably the ukrainian people. and secondly , i would say that the guys here won everything , they chose everything , they won. because er, i would say something. this is exactly your solution. i think it became an especially

big catalyst for other a-a projects , and of course, already when they gave three more biraktars to ukraine, when they gave one more biraktar more, that's when i went out and asked them guys in well, you are not afraid anymore when the new government is starting a team of bayraktars, that is, in the office, that is, he is not there again, and norway, and canada, too . well, how much can you give out for what was given? yes, because we had such a very good comment that everything it turns out it seems that baikar mashiny is a charity organization , they are a weapons manufacturer, you can imagine our feelings because it was the beginning of a full-scale war, when we found out that people were ready to help us, it was extremely important. we realized that we are not

alone, but the very fact that they are helping us and that the world is with us even with a kind word , regardless of the bairaktars, it was a great help to us, for which we are very grateful burda , as for these companies, the funds were collected in a very record time, it was impossible for us to consider it from a material point of view this is how we saw it and this is how we assessed the situation . to be honest , this is how we wanted to show our support . then entrepreneurs, they understood us , because for them war is a matter of outlook and faith. and also a question of moral position, because money and commercial success. nothing like that was taught by their father

ozdemir bayraktar. the purpose of our life is to be he said to the side of truth and they made their choice when it was especially difficult when, among other losses, the russians shot down our dream. and we have a legend, a byraktar , a symbol of the future victory. i spoke with the former ambassador of ukraine to turkey, mr. andrii sabigov, you know him well . sent congratulations thank you and we talked about our joint partnership plans he told that turkey and ukraine have planned a plant and even the city where this plant will be

built has already been determined and even you have already bought the land and this plant is only a question of when it will appear. this plant is related to this. well, of course , we really need bayraktars and dogwoods . ask mr. halyuk and is it possible to build this plant underground let's quickly ask even this and are you going to put anti-aircraft defense around your plant of our joint plant er angelicatny yes before moving on to the topic of the plant as you know andriy sibiga was the ambassador to turkey and he i personally made a very big contribution to the development of relations between ukraine and turkey and to the rapprochement of our

countries . i first met andrii sibiga. -processes between turkey and ukraine were carried out in the defense and aviation industry, where both countries will contribute to each other, we know that in 2015, ukraine wanted to purchase unmanned attack aircraft, but no country agreed to this neither europe, nor israel, nor china , none of these countries agreed , only turkey was open to cooperation with ukraine in this matter . there are serious developments planned in ukraine, and we importers of these

technologies from ukraine put ukrainian -made engines on the first complexes. and what is important is that your president zelenskyi visited us in august 2019. on baikal, he visited our main production facilities . at that time, the ukrainian military was being trained here, and they were also present during his visit. he really liked the plant and its production areas, and therefore when he expressed a desire to create a similar enterprise in ukraine, we said ok and told him that we would build a factory, then work in this direction began. near kyiv, a group of architects started designing and what is very important. this

enterprise, just like the one in turkey , will not be something symbolic, it will not be just an assembly, it is planned as a large integrated plant with all technologies, all research and development, and all production. obtained the necessary permits from the turkish state authorities, that is, they took permission for the fact that the bayraktar tb-2 bayraktar a , rather, will be produced there in the technological sense , it was from this that we began our planning for now the architectural design is completed but in connection with the difficult situation that is happening now, this and the power outage , and how do you understand the issue of security, after all, this is a strategic place, technological enterprises of this type are necessary not only from the point of view of the difficult situation that is currently taking place, they are important from the point of view from the point of view of the future of ukraine

, they really should be located where there are air defense systems or, as you said, underground . but to be honest, it is practically impossible for us to coordinate all this on our own. we more we are focusing on strategies related to the construction of the plant, which we are carrying out on our own by allocating our own resources, plant equipment, personnel for research and development, the rest of the issues are actually more complex, it is not something that can happen quickly, but we have committed to build this plant at our own expense and with our own resources because this is our goal and we have adopted this is exactly the decision for this, we spend our own resources and continue to move towards the implementation of these plans of ours

, we can talk although about some terms the beginning of the concrete construction of the walls of this plant is it all after the war? is it all after the war? to be honest, we are now in principle . a morning agreement was signed between the government of ukraine and the government of the republic of turkey on cooperation in the field of high-tech aviation and space industry, this agreement must go through the ratification procedure in the parliament of ukraine at the moment this procedure has not yet been completed, the interview is not yet known, in a matter of days the verkhovna rada will ratify such and such, it is desirable for the two countries to enter into cooperation

, in other words, the production of actors in ukraine will be millions of dollars, the first bird should come off the conveyor as early as 25 th year, but for now these are only dreams during the war, dreams about ukraine, turkish technologists , and several awards from other regions , e-e

. of course for merit of the third degree zelenskyy volodymyr with a ukrainian and this is another cat - this is a famous cat of a turkish city, one eye is different from the other, and this is a cat from an islamic story, i know what you are talking about, yes , these are kalina kalina cats, so i put them here here for a certificate, and this thing was a gift from the master, it is ukrainian ukrainian, we take it here, it helps ukrainians, and this vyshyvanka will become a talisman for you, the disk of vyshyvanka runs out

from ukraine and two from azerbaijan from you, and i received this before the war in 2020, who gave it zelenskyi, both of the third for the 1st degree of the order of merit can be viewed yes, of course, the same silchuk has well, the same one and this one is the merit of the first degree, so it is important for you to have such medals ukraine, of course

, it is important to receive them it is an honor for us because your bairaktars make our victory and victory of azerbaijan yes. it is an honor to receive them , well, it is difficult to start a business in ukraine . experience in the defense of the aviation industry, that is, i can answer this question only from this perspective, of course, ukraine has significant past experience in the field of defense and aviation , it has its own developments, but with these developments, it is now necessary to move in the direction of new technologies that are breaking , for example, the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles is not similar on the typical technology of the defense industry, you also mentioned

that it is more it-oriented, it is closer to civilian industries, it has more common points of contact with other areas, in connection with which it requires a completely different understanding, and this understanding absolutely says that this is a country, for example, turkey, we have had a long -lasting struggle for many years related to the awareness of the importance of this technology, as well as what steps should be taken in this direction. if we talk about ukraine, then in order for such great investments, the ukrainian state should carry out certain regulations in the bureaucratic official plan in order to facilitate conditions for investors, for example thanks to the will and determination of your president zelenskyi in on this issue, the process of signing the morning agreement between the governments took place, because it is not so easy to do something and to destroy something, it is just

to put sticks in the wheels, it is simple and easy . for example, to destroy a house, it is enough to pull one brick, and in order to do something, everyone needs to put their efforts in a positive sense perhaps in such industries as, for example, defense aviation, which are subject to mandatory state control, which are not civilian spheres , relations with the state come to the fore here in those spheres where it is about the security and secrecy of the state, frankly speaking, it should take certain precautionary measures from this position in ukraine, there was also a need to take certain steps and these steps have already begun to be implemented, but it must be understood that all this is not done easily, of course, in ukraine , especially in matters related to the field of defense aviation in principle. we want our investments to become an example

. it is important for us to do this to show that foreign investments will benefit ukraine and strengthen ukraine economically yes, and strategically it is very important as an example - it should be done i am afraid to take you down with the next question, but i still ask you, uh, have you encountered ukrainian corruption, our industry is the defense aviation industry, maybe there will be some differences here , but we are like bikers for example, we always follow the path of meeting with ministers who have the authority of direct state representatives and customers, so we have no need to press any additional levers, we do not do this as a biker, but we can afford to introduce business is done in this way because our products are products of a strategic nature, this is a product that is not

so easy to find anymore. this is technology , thanks to this we have the opportunity to speak directly with state bodies and conduct business. without involving any intermediaries, you said several times that the president zelensky and the intensification of relations began under this president and you have his personal number at the moment if you have any difficulties or you can simply dial president zelensky and talk to him on the phone to be honest, i don’t have your president, but i had the opportunity to meet with him many times. i came to kyiv before the war, i also came after it started, and i am grateful to the president that he found the opportunity to meet me. i need to understand your president. zelenskyi is a very busy person, and i would and i myself did not want to disturb him by calling him on his personal number, but at the same time we communicate absolutely freely both with

the president's office and with state bodies , especially when we have certain needs in this regard, this is our evening campus bow, this is the cafeteria, this is the production, this is the composite workshops. and this is the building of the new factory. and where is your old factory? it is working . we make berichtar tb-2 there, and the tips are alive

. the prototypes are being assembled there. so now to him designer this is a plane thank you so here it is probably flying just now a training flight if we show we no secrets invisible everything is fine because this is training so no problems uh training and testing this is our plane training with him

it's happening live right now find and where is it happening? it's next to the training ground, but our partners very often limit us in this war in the use of their weapons. well, for example , they say that our missiles should not hit russian territory, and that's why the mileage there is limited are there the same requirements for the byraktars? do you make demands on the ukrainian side so that the raktars are not used on russian territory? property and therefore the ukrainian military and representatives of the authorities can use it as they wish for their own security. there can be no question of any restrictions. they say that you and your brother

attend combat operations in order to see how your planes fly. have you been in donbas before the full-scale war and have you been in ukraine after the start of the full-scale war 5 times to be honest, i have not been to the eastern region i did not go to donbas before the war we have visited ukraine many times in ukraine we have a powerful team there created by us the company is all ukrainians, so they have been trained here, this is our personnel who provide support in the areas of the base we must do this, we have obligations regarding the provision of support and thus they, together with the ukrainian military, wherever the latter are and whatever their needs regardless of the time of the day, they are provided with this support after the start of the war, i came to ukraine three times, i was in kyiv twice and once in lviv, together with the team

, we constantly monitor the situation, if any need arises, we make every effort to satisfy it as soon as possible if any problem arises, we try to solve it. frankly speaking, we are constantly working on this plan through all channels. since we want these complexes to be as useful as possible for ukraine, if any technical updates or developments are needed , we do it, and at the moment unexpected problems may arise, we may face with something that absolutely requires the development of a solution. in this regard, we do everything necessary for this, from time to time we ourselves propose to install certain developed improvements on the complexes, which in our opinion will be useful without waiting until we are asked about it. for example, the question of the network, do not think that the uav is only a flying object . not at all on the ground, you need a powerful

network so that you can control the aircraft from different points, so that the mig aircraft takes off at one point and lands in otherwise, runways are subject to bombing and it may happen that the plane will not be able to land where it took off from, the network must be flexible . when the plane flies, its flight must be monitored by many people who are in completely different points, the targets detected by it it is necessary to store and process, that is, a system of geographic information is needed. in this way, various problems of various kinds may arise, and we solve them all , sometimes even if the user does not tell us about it, but there is something that we think can be useful, we implement it and provide our support when your