Clarke rejects a chat claim that Turkey simply makes unlicensed OTO Melara 76 mm Compact copies. He points to Leonardo's ownership and expects intellectual-property disputes to obstruct such a course. He considers developing a 76 mm gun manageable engineering for Turkey, though not easy. The rejection remains an assessment without a documented legal or technical design history.
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Assessing claims that Turkish naval guns are copies
The unlicensed-copy allegation is rejected on intellectual-property and engineering grounds, without a documented design history.