Since you will not sell me the F35, pay me.
I see Turkey has learnt a lot from Pakistan.
So you've never asked for your money back after a deadbeat retailer took your money but delivered nothing?
Not sure if you realized they're simply asking for the more than maybe $1 Billion USD they spent on the program back but they deserve additional compensation for the time lost, increased security threats they face due to the loss of the platform from their service and for good measure lets add in emotional distress from being back stabbed by an "ally".
I don't think we went to court over the US taking our money and not delivering the F-16's they promised us back in the 80s.
So perhaps Turkey is a bit smarter in how they're handling it.
I wouldn't be surprised if court passes judgement where Turkey has to pay compensation. The yanks are incredibly shrewd at drafting contracts.
We'll have to see but I don't think Turkey would have signed an agreement which authorized the US to keep their money if they failed to deliver on the F-35 order.
Since the agreement would have been signed before any inkling of a potential Russian deal, after all, no one expected such a deal.
I'm not entirely sure since no-one of us knows the true clauses ... as such who broke this contract and who not!
I agree, I think there could be some kind of clause stipulating the deal was null and void in case there was some kind of national security breach or threat and used this S-400 sale as the excuse to remove Turkey from the program.
Quite the opposite. Pakistan should have but didn't take to courts the matter where F-16s were paid for but not delivered.
Yeah, not sure why we never took the issue to court.
There could have been something else with relation to our deal that prevented us from doing so.
He emphasized that Turkey was no longer seeking to return to the
F-35 international project from which it was removed over its purchase of Russian defense systems.
This is probably a better course of action for Turkey to take than remaining a part of the program.
The F-35 is certainly a great fighter jet, on paper, but the US has a bad habit of making promises and then breaking them. Not a trustworthy partner, certainly not a friend.
Turkey is on its way to producing its own 5th generation TAI TF-X, this ties into Pakistan's ambitions of Project AZM and with the assistance of Russia and China along with other countries involved in the program perhaps Bangladesh, Malaysia, Qatar and Indonesia among possible others Turkey's program could be a resounding success and far less risky.
