six of the first 24 rafale fighter jets that greece ordered from da
so aviation will arrive at the 114th battle wing in tanagra in mid-january
the rafale will specifically arrive on the 17th or 19th of the month according to prototama of
the six rafale jets that arrived in january two were two cedar and four were single cedar the
rafale has been painted in greek colors and is awaiting final and evaluation procedures to be
completed to leave the french construction company's facilities and come to greece
it should be noted that in the cockpit the french fighter aircraft will be manned by the first eight
greek pilots trained in the previous months at the marine ec military base near bordeaux
the reception ceremony at tanagra air base will be attended by prime minister kyriakos
mitsutakis with all political and military leaders of the ministry of national defense
the prime minister is closely monitoring the execution of the rafale supply having instructed
defence minister nico's panagiatopolis to strictly adhere to the schedule agreed with the french side
turkey has signed a new contract for the purchase of russian-made s-400 missiles
which could make the u.s angry a new contract with turkey on the delivery of the russian-made
s-400 medium-range anti-aircraft missile system could be signed soon rose over one export ceo
alexander mccabe said monday consultations are continuing and are in the final stages
we will soon start formalizing contracts with our partners mccabe said at the army
2021 international military technical forum in kabanka russia as quoted by tass
the success was achieved at the idef 2021 international defense
industry exhibition which took place in turkey in august 2021
the exhibition was a success and our delegation brought back a pretty good demand program
said mccabe moscow and ankara signed a deal in 2017 on the delivery of the russian-made s-400 air
defense system to turkey making it the first nato member to purchase the air defense missile system
turkey was later expelled from the f-35 program it is not yet clear what the fate of the six f-35
is that have been handed over to turkey will be for the training of turkish f-35a pilots in the us
ankara's program to purchase 100 f-35s has collapsed
including the first phase of the contract to purchase 30 f-35 as
in june last year news emerged that turkey's six f-35a planes would be transferred to greece due to
an urgent f-35 order from athens the plane is scheduled to be delivered to greece in
operator in 2022 world after the u.s and israel data for 2020 streets turkey has 245
f-16s from various blocks the oldest f-16 of the turkish air force gaf is the block 30 which was
received since 1987. on the other hand turkey operates the block 40 and block 50. the head
of the turkish defense ministry presidency ssb ismail tomorrow said there are 1 200 to 1 500
structural components of hf aircraft -16 that must be fixed to increase the lifespan of the fighting
falcon our question is how can turkey carry out the f-16 service life extension slep program if
all of the f-16 components are not supported by the us the slept program can increase the life of
the f-16 from 8 000 flight hours to 12 000 flight hours in that way turkey's f-16s can be used even
until 2050 as far as having the f-16s turkey can actually independently carry out maintenance and
repair of their f-16 aircraft this is also what turkey is likely to do for the slept program
according to records since turkish aerospace industries
thai which was founded in 1884 has been producing fighter aircraft locally under license
includes 232 f-16 fighting falcon block 340x 50 70 aircraft for taf prior to that the taf
had received eight f-16s purchased directly from the united states ty is currently building
30 new f-16 block 50-plus aircraft for the taf and applying ccip upgrades to the 163 block 30
40 50 f-16s they will all be made equivalent to the new block 72 plus dozens of f-16s made by
thai are also exported to other countries especially in the middle east tai's 46
f-16s were exported to the egyptian air force under the peace vector iv program 1993-1995
turkey in theory already has experience in producing the f-16
turkey is one of five countries in the world that locally manufactures the f-16
so turkey could make repairs or extend the service life of the f-16 without the knowledge
and approval of the us however it will further strain relations between ankara and washington