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Fightercraft makers battle for lucrative Turkish market - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review"We are offering Turkey the opportunity to jointly develop the Eurofighter 2020, the next version of the Eurofighter," said Marco Valerio Bonelli, top spokesman for Eurofighter. "It wouldn't be the production of parts, but joint development."
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Italy, because of its close political and defense ties with Turkey, has been tasked within the Eurofighter consortium to coordinate potential cooperation with Turkey. In recent years, Italy has become Turkey's largest weapons supplier after the United States.
Italy seeks bigger role in Turkish defense market - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review"Our cooperation [with Turkey] had been based mostly on industrial and commercial cooperation.
Now we need to carry this cooperation to the strategic level for 30 to 40 years," said Guido Crosetto, Italy's deputy defense minister.
Future Combos of F-35 users:
Australia
100 F-35
86 F-18
Royal Australian Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of aircraft of the Canadian Forces Air Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canada
103 F-18
65 F-35
Future Canadian Forces projects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian Forces Air Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Italy
131 F-35
28 F-16
96 Eurofighter
Italian Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Netherlands (no combo)
85 F-35
Royal Netherlands Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turkey
116 F-35
240 F-16
Turkish Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UK
138 F-35
160 Eurofighter
List of active United Kingdom military aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
except F-22.
A mix like Italy/UK prefers with F-35 and Eurofighter combo?
I excluded the F-22 because it is not available for export and its development was no multi-national project.
What do you think?
On 28 October 2009, President Barack Obama signed the 2010 defense authorization bill (H.R. 2647) which included provisions requiring the DoD to prepare a report on the costs and feasibility for an F-22 export variant and another report on the impact of F-22 export sales on the U.S. aerospace industry
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A date has yet to be set, but both the USAF and RAF are reportedly keen to pit the F-22 against the Eurofighter as at present, they're one and others only worthy opponent. Watch this space.
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Trident skewers Britain?s post-imperial refitThe initial challenge is to save £37bn by 2020, merely to meet unfunded obligations accepted by the last government.
Forgive me if I've mislead you, ekrem. But I never said that he UK was going to purchase the F-22 Raptor. I was just saying that outside of the USAF, the only foreign airmen to have flown the aircraft were RAF fighter pilots, that's all. It's part of what we call the 'special arrangement'. We share most of our innovations with America as well - American pilots have flown and familiarised themselves with RAF Eurofighters.
And as you said/wrote, the UK certainly isn't in any position to be shopping around for new military hardware.