Ankara Wants To Use Payments For F-35s To Fund F-16 Buys

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LONDON—The Turkish government is hoping it can use $1.6 billion that it paid for U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to pay for new-build F-16s and upgrades to its existing fleet. Earlier this month it emerged that Ankara had made requests to Washington to purchase as many as 40 new-build F-16s and 80...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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