That is completely delusional.
Turkey isn’t planning on moving those two aircraft from Luke anytime soon, nor could they without the US facilitation. The US isn’t moving to seize them or to outright state that the two aircraft will not be able to leave. Neither nation is looking to force this issue to a very public confrontation right now.

However, should Turkey be permanently be suspended from the F-35 program, those two aircraft would be orphaned. They will not leave before the issue is resolved, one way or the other.

Should November roll around and Turkey has followed through with the purchase of the S-400, those aircraft at Luke will be stranded because Congress will block Turkish participation in the F-35, most likely add the weapons export ban that was considered last summer. Turkey would likely be added to ITAR restricted countries.

Replied in Turkish aerospace

It is now safe to say that but for the 2 F-35’s that have already been delivered to Turkey- Turkey will not be a partner in the JSF consortium in the near future.

Couldnt be happier with that outcome. Good luck to Turkey in all their future aerospace endeavors, and to finding and training an entirely new cadre of pilots to replace the hundreds purged. The S-400 is probably a better choice since no one is left to fly the F-35’s ordered.

All that’s left now is funding the repurchase of those two Turkish F-35 as they will never be able to leave US soil.

Yes, he is comparing T/W of the engines not the jets.

Also, i think information that F135 weight 1700 kg is not accurate. It’s 65cm longer (about 13%) and 16cm wider in diameter (about 17%) than AL-41F1S, so it’s about 30% bigger but only 6% heavier? Quite doubtful.

Interesting theory, maybe you should contact the maintainers who work on the engine because the weight was listed twice in articles referring to them. I posted one. The other was scrubbed of weight data, after the fact. The OEM has never released the weight of the F119 or the F135, nor has the gov.

Sources like Wikipedia extrapolated the weight based on engine thrust to weight of other contemporary engines…. they were wrong. We run into this type of denial all the time, opinion vs. data. Data says your wrong.

Do not shoot the messener.

Cost of F-35 Block 4 Upgrade Quadruples But May Not Suffice
(Source: Defense-Aerospace.com; posted March 09, 2018)

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/art…t-suffice.html

Different topic

http://airforcemag.com/MagazineArchi…-Bad-Guys.aspx

That will take some digging, but of one thing I’m sure…. when De Briganti writes, he lies. No idea why people post his articles. Defense-aerospace would be a more reliable site if it was just a news aggregator. Every piece written for the site is flawed (unless it’s about French aerospace)… even then

Just recently, he posted on twitter that F-35 costs rose on a per unit basis, apparently he doesn’t know, care, or understand the difference between unit costs and program costs.

https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/…-gen-fighters/

Great series of podcasts, they are just starting on highlighting particular aircraft. Worth listening and supporting.

note-From about halfway point in this episode there are some interesting anecdotes about the F-35 displays and systems. These are more nuts and bolts of military aviation, not statistics and metrics, and (to me) far more interesting. The actual experiences of flying (mostly naval aviation) from a practical standpoint.

Some particulary interesting episodes were Carrier I&II, and the F-18 episode.