TR TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

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Are simsek's statements actually true?
Prof. Dr. İsmail Demir's F-35 remarks are on the agenda once again:

— The F-35 maintenance and repair center was going to be established in Turkey. They suddenly brought a condition: You will make a special section in the facility, it will be caged and locked. We will put an American there. You will not touch the core of the engine, the personnel we will put it in will bring it to you.

— Then they said: You will not touch the trash of radar absorbing paint, we will take it to America. You will not even look at the trash.

Buying the F-35 is not the issue, the real problem is the dependency it will create on you.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1854883042571305466

This is the right approach, if you want your stealth fighter to stay stealthy and hold a technological edge over others which you spent billions in R&D, this approach is very well justified. In critical technologies it's even a must, even for us imho.

 

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I think I've read before that F35 paint has always be shipped back to the US. That was not a Turkey specific thing.