“The Greeks have Meteor missiles, we must find equal strength,” said a Turkish military analyst.
Concerns are prevailing in Turkey about the Greek Rafale fighters and the F-35s, as there is a distance between the two countries, which instead of growing smaller.
“We have to see if these F-16 Block-70 Vipers are equal to the Rafale … Their technical capabilities matter. If with the aircraft that Greece will buy, they will bring a balance of forces “ said military analyst Abdullah Agar, as broadcast by SKAI correspondent in Istanbul Manolis Kostidis.
“We must emphasize that the Greeks will use the Meteor missiles and consider that they will gain supremacy. In this an equal force must emerge “ stressed the analyst on CNN Turk.
Greece is ahead with upgraded F-16s, the receipt of the first Rafal and additional Meteor missile systems, while Greece is going to get the F-35s, while even the Turkish F-16s to be approved will be received in 2026, he explained. Manolis Kostidis.
The government is monitoring the reports carefully, but calmly sale of new F-16s in Turkey and modernization of the existing fighters available to the neighbor, despite its positive attitude Joe Biden in the framework of the NATO Summit in Madrid.
Greek composure is explained by political balances in the US: From the will of the Biden government to the realization of this will, the road is long and passes through Congress, which only positively does not oppose the revisionism of Tayyip Erdogan. As it is emphasized, it will be difficult for Mr. Biden, despite his statements to the contrary, to risk a political defeat, even by a majority of Democrats in Congress.
“Warning shots”
The β warning shots that probably “land” Erdogan’s ambitions for the F-16 came on Thursday from Republican MPs, after the statements of the American president in Madrid.
As her correspondent reports ERT in Washington, Lena Argyri, the Republican MPs Gas Bilirakis and Nikol Maliotakisissued a harsh statement, in which they characteristically state that “it is shocking that President Biden supported the sale of US fighter jets F-16 and modernization kits in Turkey, while he had recently heard first-hand concerns about Turkish aggression from Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during his visit to Washington.
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