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It's a complex issue. It's not just money involved, buying a long term "system" means you are reliant on relations for spares and support. This puts into questi
by alkonaut 5y ago
It's a complex issue. It's not just money involved, buying a long term "system" means you are reliant on relations for spares and support. This puts into question the willingness of (e.g.) Turkey as a NATO country to upset Russia.
NATO is a defense pact, which in reality means a military industrial pact too. There is no way to entirely separate the manufacturing and acquisition of military gear, from the treaty where it's supposed to be used.
- KMag 5y agoWasn't there also at one point a proposal for a F-35 maintenance facility in Turkey? Having that kind of access to F-35 information and being potentially beholden to a manufacturer of the main threat to the F-35 sounds like a huge intelligence leak just waiting to happen.
- buran77 5y agoThe US does its best to prevent allies from having any kind of military technology outside of US control, particularly if it's effective. Allegiances aren't set in stone and the US won't take the chance to see that tech used against them. [0] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/12/01/1226207/galileo-system-to-include-jamming-capability https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/12/01/1226207/galileo-sys... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/08/world.internationaleducationnews https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/08/world.internation...