Turkey Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

CasualObserver

CasualObserver

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_killuminati_ said:
Turkey was also making parts for the F-35, iirc.
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here are old official charts from back when Turkey was still a part of the program:

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I also recommend you to read this about TAI's participation(they mainly supplied the central fuselage):

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EDIT: So, this was not at all as insignificant as the Americans kept telling people about it during the whole S-400 dilemma. Tom Burbage, the former executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's F-35 program tells us in the podcast below that the decision to kick Turkey out was always political, not technical and that the program suffered quite a bit for it:

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There's a lot of things that we did, but the industry had to step up and make investments. The nations had to step up and make investments. I think we opened five world-class, new factories in the same year, one in Norway, one in Denmark, one in Turkey. They were just being built to support the F-35.
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Well that cost is carried through to the ultimate buyer, so all those things had to be analyzed and stopped wherever they could to get some efficient processes in place. In general, and I'll tell you another good example, one of the best suppliers on the program was Turkey. When Turkey was moved out of the program for political reasons, we lost a really important part of that base because they were the second source on the center fuselage, which has as many man-hours in it as a full F16. It was a big piece of structure and they were doing exceptionally good work.

I spent quite a bit of time with the Turkish industry guys over there and it's an amazing... They have tax benefits, they have cost benefits. Our problem was to not give them so much work because they could earn it if it was just based on earning, but we had to have some to share with others. The industrial guarantee with all the partner countries was it would be direct work on the program. It would not be hams from farms and stuff like that, which have tended to be the offset type stuff. It had to be direct work F35.
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There's still some stuff in the podcast about Turkey that I left out here so go ahead and listen to it if you're still interested. It's also really informative regarding what was going on at the JPO during different phases of the program.
 
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