Turkey wants to buy both S-400 and F35 fighter jets
For Turkey, its natural geographical advantage gives it a bargaining chip. So even super military powers like the United States and Russia. When facing Türkiye, he sometimes seemed quite temperamental. One well-known thing is that Turkey wants to purchase the Russian-made S-400 air defense system. The United States has made it clear that it disagrees and even threatened not to deliver F-35 fighter jets.
But it seems that Türkiye does not buy it and intends to get both weapons. In order to get Turkey to give up the purchase of the S-400 air defense system, the United States not only threatened F-35 fighter jet orders and an arms embargo, but also tempted Turkey with its own Patriot missiles. It can be described as a combination of soft and hard tactics, but it seems that this is also Still failed to impress Turkey.
In mid-January 2019, the United States sent another delegation to persuade Turkey. However, this time the U.S. delegation still failed to convince the stubborn Turkey, and in the end had to do the opposite without success.
The biggest headache for the United States is not that Turkey insists on buying S-400 air defense missiles, but that it buys Russian air defense missiles and requires the United States to deliver F-35 stealth fighter jets. You know, this is the most advanced high-tech fighter jet in the United States. Once it fights together with Russia's S-400, the F-35 fighter jet will no longer have any secrets for Russia.
The key to the problem is that the U.S. military has equipped a large number of F-35 fighter jets, and this is a hot-selling fighter jet in the United States. Once the secrets are stolen by Russia, it will not only affect its sales, but it will definitely not be good news for the US military. Therefore, for the United States, the last thing it wants to see is that Turkey wants to buy both the S-400 air defense system and its own F-35 fighter jets.
Although Turkey is also one of the shareholders of F-35 fighter jets, the United States is unwilling to let Russia succeed. However, Turkey not only wants to purchase Russian-made S-400s, but also shamelessly asks the United States to deliver F-35 fighter jets. No matter how you look at it, it looks like Turkey is disgusting with the United States.