In addition to Turkey’s domestic and national defense industry moves, the issue of F-35 purchase is also on the agenda. Although it is slightly overshadowed by the National Combat Aircraft that made its first flight recently, there is still an unresolved F-35 problem. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a new statement on the issue. Here are the details about the subject…
President Erdogan put a “semicolon” on the F-35 issue!
Recently, an important step was taken in the National Combat Aircraft KAAN project carried out by TAI. The domestic warplane made its first meeting with the skies and performed a successful flight. With this move, which constitutes the first steps in Turkey’s 4th and 5th generation warplane production, an important signature was made on behalf of the domestic and national defense industry vision.
In the ongoing processes regarding the issue, the arrival of the 6th generation fighter jet after MMU KAAN was on the agenda. You can click here to read our news on this subject. Of course, in the continuation of these exciting processes, there is also a subject that turns into a snake story: F-35.
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The decision reached on the issue that was on the agenda in the US Senate in early February: It was decided that Turkey would purchase 40 F-16 Block 70, F-16 Block 70 modernization kits and aircraft engines, not F-35, in return for the 23 billion dollar payment it made. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a new statement regarding the issue.
In his statement, the President said, “In our current plan and program, there are F-16s rather than F-35s. We are discussing with the senators who come to us what we can do about the F-16. Apart from this, both we and our Minister of Foreign Affairs have meetings with the US Secretary of State. “We are closely following the issue.” He stated:
The F-35 issue is currently on pause. It is wondered whether Turkey will be included in the program again in the future. So what do you think about the F-35 issue?