Baybars Han
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We won't be ever getting the F-35s. Remember my words. We shot ourself in the foot because of one of the worst president in our history. Why would you not buy the s-400 after we get the F-35s. If Greece gets the F-35 they will gain air superiority. F-16s are lunch for F-35
24 F-35 won’t change anything. It will only bankrupt Greece even more. Foregoing the price of maintaining those planes will be as
much as buying them, Greece’s order will be slotted away at the back end of on going orders. Which means they will have to wait 5-6 years to get even all 24 planes as Lockheed is more worried about satisfying costumers with big orders, like Japan, South Korea and the UK.
Neither will those F-16 as the majority will be upgraded in 5-7 years from now.
It’s more a desperate attempt at bribery than anything else.
I’m not even go into detail about the lack of FOC of any F-35 in use atm in the world, the lack of training Greece possess with NG technology, and the time it would take for them to even get ready 12 planes let alone 24 of which only half will be able to fly if not even less.
Nor about how Turkey’s Air Defence Layer will look like on 5-7 years from now. Planes like the F-16 will be lunch for that Layer and any base maintaining highly strategic assets of the enemy will be flattened by Ballistic Missiles as well as Cruise missiles like SOM and Gezgin. For which Greece has no counter against, so again why should Turkey be afraid of a broke country bankrupting itself even more?
Also in the next years the US will be offering the F-35 to Turkey for a very good price.
Turkeys Air Force in the 2030s will consist of F-35A/B-TFX-Göksungur-MIUS.