Ankara (AFP) - Turkey has decided to place a firm order with US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin for two F-35 stealth fighter jets, a defence source said on Wednesday.
"Two orders will be placed," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that they were due to be delivered in 2015.
NATO member Turkey plans to buy 100 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets over the next decade for about $16 billion (11 billion euros).
Queso wrote:Maybe they are following their own version of US military policy recently- A tiny number of very high-tech warplanes are sufficient to ward off whatever an enemy might throw at us.
Fumanchewd wrote:But two of one type small type is ludicrous and they did announce plans to buy 100.
