{"id":92063,"date":"2019-10-21T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92063"},"modified":"2019-10-21T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:51:26","slug":"turkeys-fleet-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92063","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s Fleet Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turkey has been in the market for its growing navy to acquire fighter planes that can land on an aircraft carrier. Unfortunately, the Turkish navy does not yet have a carrier in its fleet but is instead using somewhat lighter assault ships than can be converted to small aircraft carriers.\u00a0 The hangup is that the Turkish government decided to buy the Russian S-400 system. That ended the deal on F-35s.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/why-turkey-may-never-f-050000932.html<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: Turkey was a major industrial participant in F-35 production. Turkish firms manufactured an array of components for the single-engine plane. The country\u2019s air force planned to acquire 100 F-35s and, by mid-2019, had already sent aircrew and maintainers to the United States for training.<\/p>\n

But the U.S. government in mid-July 2019 canceled Turkey\u2019s participation in the fighter program. The S-400 system, in theory, could gather sensitive data on the F-35\u2019s radar signature. If Russia acquired the data, it could modify its own air defenses to better counter the F-35\u2019s stealth qualities. – article<\/p>\n

That is a deal-breaker for buying US-made equipment. It does explain several recent events.<\/p>\n

Does Turkey need aircraft carriers? It’s already take delivery of the Anadalou from Spain.<\/p>\n

This should be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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