Turkey Signs Deal with Britain to Buy 20 Eurofighter Jets

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Turkey and the U.K. signed a multibillion-dollar woody for the merchantability of 20 caller EF-2000 Eurofighter Typhoon jets during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s sojourn to Ankara connected Monday.

According to a property merchandise shared by the U.K. government, the woody is worthy up to £8 cardinal pounds (U.S. $10.7 billion), making it the biggest export woody successful a generation.

This is the archetypal caller bid of U.K. Typhoons since 2017. The archetypal transportation is expected to instrumentality spot successful 2030.

Under the agreement, BAE Systems volition manufacture large airframe components, behaviour the last assembly of the craft and pb weapons integration astatine its facilities successful Lancashire.

The woody volition marque the Turkish aerial unit the 10th relation of the Eurofighter Typhoon, underscoring the aircraft’s ongoing relation successful planetary aerial defense. The bundle includes the MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.

Turkey plans to get Eurofighter jets from Qatar and Oman

Following a gathering betwixt Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Starmer astatine the Presidential Complex successful Ankara, Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler told reporters that Turkey besides plans to get 12 Eurofighter Typhoons each from Qatar and Oman, with the craft from Qatar expected to get aboriginal adjacent year.

As portion of Starmer’s visit, 3 Royal Air Force Eurofighter jets flew to Turkey. Upon entering Turkish airspace, they were met by Turkish F-16s and escorted to Ankara Mürted Air Base Command. Starmer and U.K. Secretary of State for Defence John Healey met RAF pilots successful beforehand of a Eurofighter craft astatine the base.

“At either extremity of Europe, the UK and Turkey are captious to tackling the challenges of our time, and this woody volition let our equipped forces to enactment adjacent person together,” Starmer said.

Turkey’s acquisition of caller Eurofighter jets, which purpose to rejuvenate the Turkish aerial force, volition enactment arsenic a halt spread until the domestically developed Kaan combatant is added to the country’s inventory.

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