Turkey to buy two F-35 fighter jets

Delivery of two Joint Strike Fighters planned to be completed by 2018.

Turkey to buy two F-35 fighter jets
Turkey will place order for its first F-35 fighter jets, also known as Joint Strike Fighters, Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The Defense Industry Execution Board of the ministry's undersecretariat of defense industry held a meeting on Tuesday chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A statement released after the meeting said the undersecretariat had been commissioned by the board to order the first two planes from the contractor companies within the Joint Strike Fighter project to which Turkey attends as a consortium member with the aim of answering Turkish army's need for "new generation warcrafts."

"Within this scope, Turkey pursues its aim for the purchase of 100 F-35A fighters, as previously planned and declared," said the statement.

The delivery of the first two F-35A planes is planned to be completed by 2018.

F-35s are a family of advanced fighter jets with a capability to avoid being detected by radar. The A-variant is built for traditional air force bases.
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