ANKARA ($1=18.59 Turkish Liras) — Turkey will become the next country after the US, Russia, China, and South Korea to have its fifth-generation fighter jet. Many Turkish enterprises from the local economy developed parts and components for the American fighter. But Turkey was able to get two GE F110 engines from the US because it had pre-ordered them. It is because of this characteristic that the Turkish media and observers hastened to compare the Turkish aircraft with the American F-22 Raptor. According to them, the future Turkish TF-X engine will probably follow the same characteristics.
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