US to Sell 40 F-35 Fighter Jets to Greece, Gift Other Aircraft
US to Sell 40 F-35 Fighter Jets to Greece, Gift Other Aircraft
The US plans to sell as many as 40 F-35 jets to Greece and will also gift the country various defense equipment, according to a letter sent by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The US plans to sell as many as 40 F-35 jets to Greece and will also gift the country various defense equipment, according to a letter sent by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The move comes as the US State Department said Friday that it had approved the long-delayed sale of F-16 warplanes to Turkey in a delicately orchestrated arrangement with Ankara supporting Sweden’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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In addition to the sale of the F-35 jets, the US plans to give Greece two C-130H aircrafts, 10 engines for P-3 aircrafts and 60 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles for free from its excess defense articles.
Who needs healthcare and public services when you have F-35 out the wazoo
20Have you ever seen what a few stealth jets armed with AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles can do to some Cancer cells? Those little fuckers have no chance.
20I mean, yes... but a handgun does the job just as well.
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We'll sell you 40 F35 and a free gift, so that you can defend against the 40 F16s that we sold to your enemy last week (as well as upgrades to 79 of them that they already had
14I wonder if this certainly sophisticated sale will then again finance frozen aid to Ukraine and Israel, thus elegantly MIC-handling the Mediterranean and Black seas past dysfunctional/democratic US-American Washington. /s
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40 F-35s seems excessive for a country the size of Greece. Those things are not cheap.
8They are in conflict with Turkey over Cyprus. Greece and Turkey thus have outsized militaries compared to the rest of the region.
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Great, more F-16s for turkey so it can bomb the Kurds better!
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FinlandSweden into NATO unfortunately.9
Everyone is getting new planes. This must mean they are upgrading their old fleet to new environment friendly electric jets!
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