Turkey critical letter from the US Secretary of Defense!

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis of the US Congress wrote letters in defense spending and turned to Turkey for the first time in the delivery of the F-35 issue also takes place.

According to Bloomberg news, Mattis, Congress has warned against Turkey's F-35 deliveries, he said Turkey's opposition to the attempted removal of the distribution list .

Mattis, saying Turkey may be caused by stopping the deterioration of the international supply chain delivery because it has led to an increase in costs suggests that the delay in delivery.

Mattis, also the legislators, F-35 from Turkey recalled that one sold from the original eight countries.

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On the other hand, the main manufacturer of the # 39; F-35 fighter plane that Lockheed Martin makes for the US Air Force decision receives 6 percent of the price reduction of countries outside the project who want to buy the countries of the United States. planes with joint projects such as Turkey would also benefit.
Lockheed signed an agreement for 141 aircraft sold American Martin aircraft, the most common model of the F-35A price in February

$ 88 MILLION

Sources close to Lockheed Martin are Australia, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, South Korea, Great Britain and the United States, as customers F -35 in total in 2018, they aim to get more than 135 aircraft for 2020 the expected delivery of $ 88 million per aircraft should be made. Responsible for production goals on the F-35 program is 3 thousand devices, if the large quantity orders provided F-35A unit price of the computer in the future can be up to # $ 80 million.

first delivery was made

Turkey & # 39; n despite the crisis between Russia Stan 400 air defense missiles, due to take Ankara and Washington, Turkey did in the first F-35 delivered last June 21 ceremony at the Lockheed Martin Fort Worth factory at. Pilot training in the use of the F-35A also began at Luke Air Base in Arizona. It was reported that the leader of the training consisted of 13 pilots and 325 maintenance personnel, and that the leader of the kafilen was pilot colonel Ziya Kabasakal