“The rest is standard procedures. So we can say yes, we have the export license for the engine. We will work with GE folks to get the engines in time, and since it is for the serial production, which is at least two and a half years away, we will have no issue receiving those engines in time to support our serial production for Turkish Airforce,” Mehmet Demiroglu told reporters.
“We’re going to be taking the sanctions off,” the president said. "We’re going to be taking the sanctions off. It’s time to do that. Ok? We don’t want to sanction friends. It’s very simple.”
GA-ASI will build Gambit aircraft in Europe, partnered with European-based companies, with airframes available for international procurement starting in 2027.
Analysts told Breaking Defense the S-400 and sanctions present significant hurdles, but they’re not impossible to overcome.
“It’s been a moral hazard to fail to implement CAATSA over the last 18 months, but better late than never," said Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Earlier this month, two senators -- a Republican and Democrat -- wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling on the administration to sanction Turkey after the S-400's radar was turned on.
Despite receiving billions in US military assistance, Egypt has inked some big deals with Russia in recent years for aircraft and helicopters. And Moscow says it want to do more.
As NATO and European governments accelerate investment in space-based intelligence, decision advantage will depend on how quickly sovereign and commercial capabilities can be fused into a trusted operational picture.
"We have seen countries around the world leap at the chance to obtain high-tech, low cost defensive capabilities only to see their significant investments crumble and rust in their hands."
No one is talking at DoD, State or the White House about today's delivery of the Russian weapon system. Is the president considering looking the other way?
The United States signed off on arms exports worth $192.3 billion over the past year, a full 13 percent increase from the previous year -- even as the Trump administration keeps pushing hard to sell more weapons, more quickly, to more allies overseas.
CAPITOL HILL: Defense Secretary James Mattis fired off a new letter to House Armed Services leadership on Tuesday, asking lawmakers again to vote in favor of waivers for certain countries Washington is trying to sway into its orbit, but who continue to do business with Russian defense firms. The letter was delivered to HASC chairman Rep. […]
AI is expanding the mission data footprint across defense environments, increasing the need for scalable, layered data-at-rest (DAR) protection.