To hold on to talented ppl salaries will/could be paid in euro or dollars.The currency will be affected, European and American defense companies benefits from this; offering Turkish engineers on critical projects citizenship/residency and decent (can not be even imagined in Turkey) salaries.
I found this a good insight to why US is worried about China modenizing their forces, but the same goes for all countries that have been at receiving end.
In short usaf aren’t going to be most modern AF, and they haven’t been very succesfull with their “wars” so to speak. But they’re the most wellfunded.