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But why buy both the aircraft? Buying of Typhoon as well as JSF would shoot up the operational costs and skyrocket maintenance headache. Let us discuss this in a separate thread.
After TAI-LockheedMartine applied a CCIP modernization for all Turkish F-16's, It is expected that Turkish F-16's operation times will be exceeded until 2020. After this date, Turkey will need a new Air-Air combat aircraft similar with F-16. It will be most probably EF-2000 EuroFighter after 2020.
Turkey will mostly use F-35's for Air-Ground missions...
TuAF will have a similar fleet like this in 2014-15;