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timepass said:

Turkey Tested its Indigenous Electromagnetic Gun..

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asif iqbal said:

Turkish delight

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If Turkey were removed from the F-35 jet supply chain amid a dispute with the United States over its planned purchase of a Russian missile system, it would impact the production rate for up to 75 of the fighters, a Pentagon official said on Thursday.

The United States has halted delivery of equipment related to the stealthy fighter aircraft to Turkey. It was the first concrete American step to block delivery of the jet to the NATO ally in light of the planned purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system.

“The evaluation of Turkey stopping would be between 50- and 75-airplane impact over a two-year period,” the head of the F-35 program, Navy Vice Admiral Mathias Winter, told a U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee subcomittee.

Turkey produces between 6 percent and 7 percent of the parts for the F-35, Winter said.

Winter’s comment came as Washington explored whether it could remove Turkey from production of the F-35. Turkey makes parts of the fuselage, landing gear and cockpit displays. Sources familiar with the F-35’s intricate worldwide production process and U.S. thinking on the issue last week said Turkey’s role can be replaced.

“We would see within 45 to 90 days an impact of the slowing down or stopping of those parts to the three production lines.”

The F-35 has production lines in Italy, Texas and Japan.

“Right now there has been no disruption” of the supply chain Winter said.

The program intends to deliver 131 jets this year, Winter said.

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Jura said:

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“We would see within 45 to 90 days an impact of the slowing down or stopping of those parts to the three production lines,” Vice Adm. Mat Winter told Congress.
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Jura said:

would it be correct to say she's the biggest Turkish warship since the ex-German battlecruiser Goeben?
(I've heard of the Goeben's escape to Turkey at the onset of WWOne in connection with the Austro-Hungarian Navy which then likely would've engaged the Royal Navy in the Adriatic had the Goeben taken it there instead to Turkey LOL not exactly news)

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asif iqbal said:

No doubt since Yavuz Sultan Selim was the largest warship in Turkey

And since then now this

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Jura said:

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Removing Turkey from F-35 jet's supply chain could slow work on 75 jets: Navy officer

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I know I posted in F-35 Thread Thursday at 8:56 PM

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Top U.S. lawmakers are threatening to pass legislation that would bar NATO ally Turkey from buying the F-35 fighter jet, and sanction the country if it buys the Russian S-400 air defense system, ratcheting pressure via a

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on Tuesday.

If Turkey accepts the S-400, “no F-35s will ever reach Turkish soil. And Turkish participation in the F-35 program, including manufacturing parts, repairing and servicing the fighters, will be terminated, taking Turkish companies out of the manufacturing and supply chain for the program,” wrote the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

“We are committed to taking all necessary legislative action to ensure this is the case. Turkey is an important partner in the F-35 program, but it is not irreplaceable,” the lawmakers added.

The letter targets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision-making calculus, emphasizing economic costs if Turkey loses co-production of the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 and geopolitical costs if Erdogan steps toward Moscow and away from NATO.

The letter is also a signal to Erdogan that he cannot rely on

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, as Congress will stand in the way.

Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, last week called the S-400 “a done deal” and claimed that Trump has opened the door to keeping F-35 sales to Turkey going. The comments came as the U.S.

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of F-35 parts to Turkey, capping months of warnings over the S-400.

SASC Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and ranking member Jack Reed, D-R.I., signed the op-ed with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and ranking member Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

If there has ever been a public letter between these lawmakers, it’s rare, which underlines the high stakes for the U.S., which has been lobbying Ankara to reverse course and offered the American-made Patriot air defense system as an alternative to the S-400 since 2012.

The letter acknowledges that U.S. air dominance hinges on the F-35 — “the world’s largest fifth-generation fighter aircraft program,” “with more than a trillion dollars in investment from a dozen international partners, including Turkey” — but the jet’s integration with the S-400 “could enable the Russian military to figure out how the F-35 operates."

“With the S-400 scheduled to arrive in Turkey in July and the F-35s scheduled to arrive in November, it is time for President Erdogan to choose,” the lawmakers wrote. “It is our hope he will choose to abandon the S-400, defend Turkish skies with the Patriot system and save the F-35 arrangement.”

If Erdogan accepts delivery of the S-400, “Turkey will be sanctioned as required by United States law under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. Sanctions will hit Turkey’s economy hard — rattling international markets, scaring away foreign direct investment and crippling Turkey’s aerospace and defense industry,” the lawmakers warn.

Among the “severe consequences” if Turkey abandons (or is forced to abandon) the F-35 program, its $1.25 billion-plus investment “will be squandered” and “it will not receive the more than 100 F-35s it planned to purchase, and it will be forced to settle for a less-capable fighter aircraft that will not arrive for many years,” according to the senators.

“Turkish companies that produce parts for the F-35 will see their orders dry up completely. Its F-35 engine maintenance, repair, overhaul, and upgrade facility will see all its work go to other facilities in Europe,” they wrote. “President Erdogan’s hope to make the Turkish defense industry a key pillar of economic growth for the future will be dashed.”

They commit to “do all we can to assist Turkey” if Erdogan walks away from the S-400 and if Russian President Vladimir Putin retaliates in economic sectors where Ankara relies on Moscow. Putin, they say, “is trying to divide Turkey from the West with the S-400s."

“Mr. Putin fears and respects a Turkey strategically anchored in the West and committed to NATO,” they wrote. “We hope President Erdogan will choose that future for Turkey by rejecting Mr. Putin’s divisive S-400 ploy, meeting its air defense requirement with the Patriot system and moving forward as a critical partner in the F-35 program.”

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Turkey’s president said Wednesday that Ankara has finalized an agreement on purchasing Russia’s S-400 missile defense system.

"We concluded the S-400 issue, signed a deal with the Russians, and will start co-production,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking in a televised interview.

"Later, we may work with S-500s," the next generation system, Erdogan said.

U.S. officials have suggested that Turkey should buy U.S. Patriot missiles rather than the Russian system, arguing the S-400 is incompatible with NATO systems. But Turkish officials have said that Turkey will not go back on its agreement with Russia, even if it were to also buy Patriots.

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