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Turkey is a huge trading partner to the US and not really a rival. They make the chassis to our next-gen fighter planes, for example. Why toss that aside?
by dev_dull 7y ago
Turkey is a huge trading partner to the US and not really a rival. They make the chassis to our next-gen fighter planes, for example. Why toss that aside?
- remarkEon 7y agoWhy toss that aside? I actually didn't know that the chassis for the F-35 is manufactured in Turkey. Do you have a source for this? If this is the case then it seems incredibly shortsighted to source a critical component from half-way around the world - from a country that obviously doesn't like us very much.
- swingbrother 7y agoLately mentioned by Trump on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181547331822456832 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11815473318224568...
- pmontra 7y agohttps://www.f35.com/global/participation/turkey-industrial-participation https://www.f35.com/global/participation/turkey-industrial-p...
- 0003 7y agoThat's the way these things tend to work out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_procurement#Level_3_partners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning... This said, Turkey is being removed from the supply chain. Of course, this comes at about a a half a billion in costs... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-security-f35/pentagon-removing-turkey-from-f-35-program-after-its-purchase-of-russian-missile-defense-idUSKCN1UC2GL https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-security-f35/p...
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> Turkey is a huge trading partner to the US Turkey’s entire economy is like half the size of New York City’s. And in any case, ejection from NATO doesn’t mean comprehensive sanctions.