“Turkey was a co-producer of F-35 fighters, would take 100 fighters they would make the Aegean skewer. The upgrade (with F-35) will give a huge strategic advantage to Greece in terms of air warfare “pointed out to SKAI the former National Security Advisor, Rear Admiral e.a. Alexandros Diakopoulos.
“F-35s are stealth, radar can not catch them,” he said, among other things, about the advantages of the state-of-the-art fighter.
He explained, however, that the F-35 they are not ready to be delivered, there is a production line, they will be ready for delivery by the manufacturer Lockheed Martin in 2027 to 2028, but our country in 2028 will have the necessary budget space, as the upgrades of the F-16 will be completed. «It is not just the market which is 80 million dollars, (each fighter), is also the very expensive flight time “he acknowledged. But with the increase in production, clarified Mr. Diakopoulos, the flight time is gradually falling. “The defense is expensive. “We pay a huge tax to have security with the neighbor we have,” he stressed.
“Blackmail policy”
“Turkey’s policy is a policy of blackmail and bargaining,” Mr Diakopoulos said for Erdogan’s stance Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO.
A country resorting to blackmail is not a sign of influence and power, is a sign of failureis an indication of the diminution of influence he had once explained to the neighbor.
“Turkey has the second largest army, an extremely important country in terms of its size, in terms of its geographical and geopolitical position, and it has gone from one blackmail to the other not being able to succeed. not even the F-16 upgrade which has, not the acquisition of new F-16s “he explained.
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