Turkey receives price offer for 40 Eurofighter jets amid Trump-EU rift

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1. Surprised Pikachu face when they use them to harass Greek airspace

2. —Turkish Ministry of National Defense sources announced that the offer prepared by British authorities for the procurement of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets was forwarded to Ankara.

   —The Ministry started the activities to examine the offer.

   “Turkey plans to procure a total of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 4 fighter jets in the form of 20+20. All of the Tranche 4s, which are the most modern Typhoon configuration for air-to-air combat, will be newly produced.

   However, Ankara may also procure a number of second-hand Typhoons for training activities. This possibility is also currently on the table.”

3. The Art of the Deal

4. Wasn’t the reason why turkey was no allowed f35 b3acuse they bought russian air defence? Does that not matter anymore

5. Good. The Eurofighter is an excellent combat aircraft, especially the newest tranche 4 variant that has some nice upgrades. Ironically, the UK has not ordered this newest variant yet themselves, only Germany, Italy and Spain so far (107 “tranche 4” jets in total).

   But higher production numbers will reduce the unit costs through economies of scale, which is especially significant for the Eurofighter Typhoon as the most expensive European combat aircraft today. So Turkey ordering a decent number of aircraft would be welcome news.

   Germany will also upgrade 15 of those tranche 4 Eurofighters to a new ECR variant for electronic warfare (“Eurofighter EK”), replacing the old Panavia Tornado ECR variants. The ECR variant will be developed in cooperation with Swedish company Saab, manufacturer of the Gripen combat aircraft.

6. Europe needs to quickly cancel all their F35s orders…

7. Good, further integration of Turkey closer to EU is needed .

   Now all they need it to ditch Erdogan and reform the state closer to EU values.

8. Definetely good addition to our airforce as a stepping stone until we produce our own fifth gen fighters (if it will be ever completed). Diversifying our military away from USA is definetely right step forward.

9. paywalled

10. Did the Turks not develope their own fifth generation fighter jet? Don’t get me wrong, I love the European business, but why would they develope an in-house figher jet, then order from Europe?

11. And just like that, trump saved the eurofighter

12. The Shart of the Deal

13. Erdogan is Putin 2.0, I wouldn’t do much business with that shithead.

14. Good the faster we in Europe switch to 🇪🇺 better

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