US demands $600 million from Turkey for undelivered F-35 fighter jets The United States maintains its position that: Turkey has damaged the program (i

The United States, which excluded Turkey from the F-35 strike fighter program due to the supply of Russian S-400 air defense systems, now argues that Turkey must pay additional funds due to inflation and rising costs Turkish companies have manufactured 1005 parts for the F-35

Turkish facilities produced 817 of the approximately 24,000 parts for the F-35 airframe and another 188 of the 3,000 parts for the F-35 engines. A total of 1,005 components were produced for the F-35 program. Turkish companies continued to supply parts for the F-35 to US companies until September 2021. Since September 23, 2021, the Turkish defense industry has stopped supplying components, and Turkey itself has been officially excluded from the program.

US defense companies lost between $500 million and $600 million

This is what the head of the defense industry department of the Turkish presidential administration, Ismail Demir, said about the increase in the cost of the F-35 program: “The American office of the program said that the issue of excluding Turkey from the partnership would additionally cost 500-600 million dollars, taking into account current indicators. Moreover, according to the calculations of American experts, in the future, each aircraft could cost another 7-8 million dollars.