The Turkish ammunition mill in Mongolia signals an increase in competition

The fresh plant, built by the state-owned MKE company, was opened at the end of September in the presence of defence ministers of Turkey and Mongolia. The plant produces 9×18 mm, 7.62×39 mm and 7.62×54R caliber cartridges, which stay standard calibers of Mongolian tiny arms from the times of the USSR. yearly production efficiency is estimated at about 10 million rounds of ammunition. Although Turkey's full armed forces have a symbolic alternatively than strategical dimension, it carries crucial geopolitical implications due to the fact that Turkey, Russia, China, but besides the Western states inactive silently compete for influence in Central Asia, which is one more time becoming the arena of power play.