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Analysts told Breaking Defense there might be a couple reasons firms that are going big in the Middle East, Europe and Latin America won't be in Washington next week.
With several conflicts in motion, "middle layer suppliers like Turkey, South Korea and Israel with more speed and flexibility than traditional suppliers, and with much less political strings attached to their defense exports, are rapidly and successfully picking up the slack,” military analyst Sitki Egeli told Breaking Defense.
The Mideast's defense market is evolving, motivated by a desire to secure greater self-sufficiency and national sovereignty.
While a Turkish industry official claimed the country didn’t “need” the Russian systems, experts say a replacement has a little ways to go to catch other operational domestic variants.
Ukraine hopes to quickly turn around a contract to buy 24 drones from Turkey, but the former's adversary and the latter's ally could upend the potential sale. Turkey is Russia's closest ally in NATO — which Ukraine wants to join — but Ankara and Moscow