“The US should give us the old technology F-16s, they will give F-35 to Greece” say Turkish analysts, as reported by SKAI correspondent Manolis Kostidis. Some of them even express the fear that even the F-16s will never be delivered…

“Greece will get from the USA aircraft superior to ours” they admit to Turkey.

According to foreign policy analyst Guillermo Gezer “There is no way that the F-16 issue will not pass through Congress. It’s a matter of arithmetic. The will that the Biden administration will show is important here. They tell us that they will give us the fighters, they say so at every opportunityGive us the F-16s as you give Greece the F-35s”. Essentially, they will give us fighters of older technology. They took us out of the F-35 program and refuse to give us the F-16s…”

Turkish analysts express their concerns about US intentions as for the F-16s… “Getting the F-16s is for our air force vital, that’s where we have to focus our attention everyone is trained on these aircraft But we have to keep in mind in the scenario never come” geostrategy professor Ozgyur Tor characteristically stated.

“We don’t need the S-400”

“We don’t need the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft systems,” say Turkish analysts in the meantime, “building” the theory of storing the S-400s to facilitate the acquisition of the F-16s…

As military analyst Joshkun Basbug argues, “We already have the anti-aircraft systems Korkut, Hisar, Siper. That is, we are talking about short, medium and long range systems. We needed such systems, and now we also produce their radars. These are very expensive systems and are rare in the world. When this entire anti-aircraft umbrella is completed, there will be no need for S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft systems. This is joyful news!”

F-35 was and… goes

Meanwhile, the fifth F-35 built for Turkey under the joint US-Turkish program was delivered to the US Air Force…