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Scoop: Turkey to Declare S-400 ‘Inoperable’ to Gain F-35 Stealth Fighter Deal
National Security Journal ^ | 9/30/2025 | Michael Rubin

Posted on 09/30/2025 10:26:29 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

Consequently, Trump’s technical team has sought to create a loophole, according to 4 sources familiar with discussions on the matter. Turkey will remove a component from the S-400 and declare it ‘inoperable’.

It would be the anti-aircraft system equivalent of rendering a rifle inoperable by removing the bolt or taking the firing pin out of other firearms.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalsecurityjournal.org ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: f35; military; s400; turkey; whyiloveblogpimps111; wtaf
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Does this make sense or not?
1 posted on 09/30/2025 10:26:29 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

“Does this make sense or not?”

It does IF you read the article ...


2 posted on 09/30/2025 10:32:59 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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Giving F-35s to Turkey is one of the dumbest ideas in the annals of dumb ideas.
3 posted on 09/30/2025 10:34:53 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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Giving F-35s to Turkey is one of the dumbest ideas in the annals of dumb ideas.
4 posted on 09/30/2025 10:34:58 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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-A safer alternative: allow allied F-35s to use Turkish bases for NATO defense without transferring jets or eroding nonproliferation standards.


5 posted on 09/30/2025 10:37:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Read the article and I don’t see any reason that justifies selling F-35s to Turkey.


6 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:42 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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I bet we won’t sell 35s to the ottomans unless we already are moving on to a better plan for us to retain air supremacy, or have the right back-doors embedded. only IAF would be able to bust I imagine.


7 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:43 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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I bet we won’t sell 35s to the ottomans unless we already are moving on to a better plan for us to retain air supremacy, or have the right back-doors embedded. only IAF would be able to bust I imagine.


8 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:49 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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I bet we won’t sell 35s to the ottomans unless we already are moving on to a better plan for us to retain air supremacy, or have the right back-doors embedded. only IAF would be able to bust I imagine.


9 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:49 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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I bet we won’t sell 35s to the ottomans unless we already are moving on to a better plan for us to retain air supremacy, or have the right back-doors embedded. only IAF would be able to bust I imagine.


10 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:50 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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I bet we won’t sell 35s to the ottomans unless we already are moving on to a better plan for us to retain air supremacy, or have the right back-doors embedded. only IAF would be able to bust I imagine.


11 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:55 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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I bet we won’t sell 35s to the ottomans unless we already are moving on to a better plan for us to retain air supremacy, or have the right back-doors embedded. only IAF would be able to bust I imagine.


12 posted on 09/30/2025 10:38:57 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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Now that makes sense.


13 posted on 09/30/2025 10:40:02 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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“Giving F-35s to Turkey”

We are not ‘giving’ them.


14 posted on 09/30/2025 10:40:32 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: rdcbn1

Why?


15 posted on 09/30/2025 10:48:18 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: whyilovetexas111

I wonder if we currently “have” an S-400’s in labs in the US to “study”. If not, I wouldn’t just want a part removed to render them inoperable, I’d like them to be loaded onto a C-5, brought to the US, and studied.


16 posted on 09/30/2025 10:48:25 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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aplogies, not sure how that reposting occurred, maybe miss android needs her meds.


17 posted on 09/30/2025 10:55:22 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Erdoğan doesn’t do anything if he can’t stab someone in the back along the way. Eventually he will stab himself in the back playing that game.


18 posted on 09/30/2025 11:06:15 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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I found reposts with the exact same time I was making was do to a faulty mouse.


19 posted on 09/30/2025 11:08:55 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: rdcbn1

I’m more interested in finding out if they’ve pulled all the B61’s out of Incirlik.


20 posted on 09/30/2025 11:16:23 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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