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Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/turkey-f-35-russia-missile-defense-donald-trump-c33401e8
Sale of F-35s to Turkey Could Give Russia and China a Window on U.S. Tech
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Asked recently whether Ankara might get the F-35, President Trump replied: Turkish President Erdogan "is a strong member of NATO. I'm going to probably do something that's going to make him very happy." America's premier fighter jet should be a nonstarter for Ankara as long as it owns a Russian S-400 missile-defense system. The first Trump Administration was right to boot Turkey from the F-35 program when it bought the S-400 in 2019. Allowing the two systems to work together could give Moscow valuable intelligence and would amount to letting Vladimir Putin conduct target practice on the Free World's pilots. The F-35's stealth technology and sensors are a core reason the U.S. and Israel owned the skies over Iran and the stakes of cracking the F-35's tech are especially acute. The U.S. should not be handing its prime adversary a potential cheat code on the West's best military aircraft technology.