Turkey plans to buy 100 U.S. F-35 fighters: report
Turkey plans to buy 100 U.S. F-35 fighters: report.
(Given Turkey’s Islamic tilt and its hostility to Israel, should the US sell its most advanced fighters to them? – JW)
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Turkey is planning to purchase 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters worth $16 billion in an attempt to meet its future air force needs, Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz was quoted as saying Thursday.
“Turkey plans to buy 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, two of which will be delivered in 2015,” Yilmaz told the daily Milliyet.
It is the first public announcement by Ankara of how much the program will cost.
Turkey has long planned to purchase about 100 jets to replace its ageing F-4 and F-16 fleet, but increasing costs have hampered the acquisitions.
The Joint Strike Fighter, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program ever.
The U.S. defense department plans to buy more than 2,400 of the aircraft at a cost of about 385 billion dollars. The cost of each plane is now well over 100 million dollars.
WarSclerotic 
February 23, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Its typical Obama, isnt it, Mr. Wouk ? Have you anymore doubt about how a ”fine” leader Obama is ? He will do any foolish thing that a normal person would not do.
February 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Sell?? Ofcourse, because Turkey contributed to the development of the JSF from the beginning with a couple more countries. So that means that Turkey has the right to buy them and also for a better price than countries who did not contributed to the development. Has nothing to do with Obama, Turkey is a NATO ally of the US, and a very loyal one for decades.
February 23, 2012 at 5:23 PM
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