![Turkey must spend nearly $50 billion if it goes ahead with its plans to build and buy 200 locally built fighter jets and acquire 100 more F-35s from an US arms maker F-35 Lightning II](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtygZYh3i80okKom5Xr2ZuE3hkzfUYEIIhz-SuTl6fjkqpQpyex22S883FiFRV4yo8msoGFD9q-NeUB-f6oKLhBMmNoDo_8u-2AYe_KSx33mSc3efsfKoxVNmSBh1-ZytYWj_rZw/s200/AF-1F-35.jpg)
But the Turkish ambitions to build a “made-in-Turkey” fighter aircraft and buy scores of the new generation, multinational combat jet F-35 may go beyond Turkey’s financing capacity.
Defense industry officials estimate that building eight prototypes for what will become the Turkish national fighter would cost Ankara over $10 billion. “Any figure in the range of $11 billion to $13 billion would be realistic,” a senior official familiar with the program said.
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