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Welp, looks like Türkiye is looking at acquiring Eurofighter Typhoons instead of F-35s. At this rate, Trump's reputational damage—self-inflicted by attacking his allies and cutting Ukraine off at the knees—is going to take down the US military export industry. Nobody wants to build their armed services around weapons bought from a supplier who couid decide to disable them on a whim.
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/114168327427858401
@cstross But, they were kicked out of the F-35 procurement for buying S-400 from Muscovy, long time ago. Nothing new here.
And they are supposed to be building their own stealth jet, the TAI Kaan.
(no idea how close are they to it actually being useful)
Came here to say this. Those inclined to read this thread might perhaps find more interesting the UK's early problems with the EULA for the (US) DSMAC navigation database used in Stormshadow cruise missiles donated to Ukrainian forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine: without US permission for long range strikes into Russia, the missiles could only use GPS to navigate, and GPS can be "jammed".