Turkish pilots, aimed to study the F-35 flight on the newest US fighter of the fifth generation, the first two copies of which Turkey received from the US, Luke arrived at the airbase (Arizona), where there is an international training center for participants in the program the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, transfers “Warspot” with reference to the portal airforcetimes.com.
The American company Lockheed Martin, dealing with the F-35 production, last week put on an air base two new fighter aircraft for the Turkish Air Force. All in all, Ankara is planning to buy about a hundred fighters F-35. Arrived at Luke AFB Turkish staff and pilots will begin the development of new machines on the ground, and only then proceed to a training flight.
Although Turkey has received two new fighter aircraft F-35 at its disposal, but to withdraw from the territory of the United States, he should not be able in the near future. In the United States fear, that as a result of the Russian system of buying Turkish C-400 “triumph”, F-35 of the classified information for the latest fighter “leave” in Russia. Currently, Washington is trying in every way to dissuade Ankara from the acquisition of C-400, threatening in case of refusal to exclude Turkey from the program design and implementation of the F-35, but to no avail.
In the case of a failure in the transmission of Turkish fighter, US is losing one of the participants in the program, together with its investment in the project, and canceled the order in Turkey nearly a hundred aircraft, which makes the cost higher than the rest.
