Turkey will continue to supply components for the F-35 until the end of 2020

Despite the exclusion from the production program of the fifth-generation American fighter F-35 Lightning-2, Turkey will continue to manufacture components for them until the end of 2020 - that is, within a year and a half after the announcement of the exclusion. It is reported by Defense One.

According to the publication, the United States and its partners in the F-35 production program hoped to find new sources to replace all Turkish-made components in the United States by March 2020, but in the end decided that the general contractor (Lockheed Martin) and the engine manufacturer (Pratt & Whitney) fulfilled all their contractual obligations to the Turkish side.

Thus, Turkey will continue until the end of 2020 to supply components for six key components of the fighter, including fuselage and landing gear components.

Recall that in 2019, the US Congress suspended Ankara's participation in the F-35 production program and cut off the supply of these Turkish Air Force fighters due to the purchase of the latest Russian Triumph S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. Previously, Turkey planned to purchase up to 100 F-35s and even received the first two fighters that remained in the US to train Turkish pilots.

Comments

[Kerensky]

That is, the Turks will continue to make details, knowing that the planes themselves will not give them? It’s strange.
Or were they simply "pushed to the back of the line"? Then it's clear.

[dorz]

Quote: Kerensky

That is, the Turks will continue to make details, knowing that the planes themselves will not give them? It’s strange.
Or were they simply "pushed to the back of the line"? Then it's clear.

The Turks have contracts and obligations to the Americans. Having invested $ 900 million of their own money in the F-35 project, then they decided that independence from the United States is more important.

[Kerensky]

Dmitry.

The Turks have contracts and obligations to the Americans.

But did the Americans end their obligations to the Turks? Where are the two Turkish f-35s?

[Nikolaevich I]

Yes, and to earn some money a little, fulfilling shtatovskih orders, the Turks would not mind ...
The Turks have contracts and obligations to the Americans.

[cost]

Turks have contracts and obligations to Americans

Worse, shackles: honest, merchant ...

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Rich

Worse, shackles: honest, merchant ...

Well, the filmmakers "re-glorified" the word "merchant" ... anything happened! And "the word" merchant, honest "was used in the film in a very unseemly situation! Merchant to merchant-strife! There were also those for whom the definition of "traders" is more appropriate! Yes, such and in old Russia were not called merchants! Fists - that's how they were often called names ... but in a modern way, speculators! It is not for nothing that among Russian sayings there is one such: "if you can't cheat, you won't sell!" But you are right, the "merchant word" was still known in Russia ... Well, the analogue abroad is "contracts and obligations"!

[Kleber]

Nothing strange. Factories work, profits are dripping.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Kerensky

That is, the Turks will continue to make details, knowing that the planes themselves will not give them? It’s strange.

Nothing personal!
ONLY BUSINESS!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Victor_B

Quote: Kerensky

That is, the Turks will continue to make details, knowing that the planes themselves will not give them? It’s strange.

Nothing personal!
ONLY BUSINESS!

Something the situation somehow reminds me of our RD-180 -

You are such, you are, we will arrange sanctions for you, we will forbid Europe to buy your gas because with this money you are building the Crimean bridge and preparing to capture Estonia.

BUT...

Sell ​​us engines - we will put them on lawn mowers.

And yes - where is the line for tickets to the ISS?

In our special institutions in separate wards under the supervision of orderlies people with this logic keep ...

[Victor_B]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Something the situation somehow reminds me of our RD-180 -

One to one!

[Thrifty]

How so? Then representatives of one country, the neighboring Turks shouted that everything had already been replaced, and the Turks weren’t doing anything at all? Who lied to us ???

[pytar]

That is, the Turks will continue to make details ...

Will continue. Judging by recent press releases, Turkish firms are looking for options to get around sanctions. They intend to continue production by moving workshops in Bulgaria. Representatives of these firms have already examined suitable terens. Likely to renegotiate obligations in this format. Turkey hoped to get about $ 9 billion from the execution of contracts, the amount is serial, they won’t refuse exactly.

[usr01]

"Great America" ​​cannot do without Turkish details !!!!
Well done! Congratulations!

[Paranoid50]

Quote: usr01

America “can't do without Turkish details!

However, cooperation. Right now, the mattresses have set their sights on Turkish substitution.

[leodal]

Can. Just as Germany can produce Adidas without Vietnam-Thailand. But in a cheap country, profits are higher, and therefore Adidas from Vietnam, titanium to Boeing from Upper Salda, and simple accessories from Turkey. Do it yourself or order expensive in high-tech countries and companies: the main thing there is not to save, but to do it. For example, pilot helmets are made in Israel.

[Piramidon]

Turkey will continue until the end of 2020 to supply components for six key components of the fighter, including elements of the fuselage and landing gear.

The Yankees also have problems with import substitution.

[Reserve buildbat]

"I quarreled with you and do not talk! And you continue to sculpt Easter cakes for me!"

[knn54]

Erdogan once said: “Without Turkey’s participation, the F-35 project is doomed to failure.” We will wait until the end of the year.

[nm76]

In this matter, I would not worry about the Turks, they are still those Kuchma - Lukashenko ...)))

[askort154]

Earlier, Turkey planned to purchase up to 100 F-35s and even received the first two fighters that remained in the United States to train Turkish pilots.

The Americans have already appointed "buyers" - 35 from Norway, 35 from Poland, 30 from South Korea and Japan. They know how to do business with their allies.

[Sniper]

The United States will do everything .. so as not to release Turkey from its zone of influence. and here they will use everything for this. including the "carrot and stick" method

[rocket757]

Business, nothing more.