Turkey orders first F-35 from Lockheed

Turkey has decided to place a firm order with US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin for two F-35 stealth fighter jets, a defence source said on Wednesday. "Two orders will be placed," the source said on condition of anonymity, adding that they were due to be delivered in 2015. NATO member Turkey plans to buy 100 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets over the next decade for about $16 billion (11 billion euros). The purchase order was decided at a meeting Tuesday of of the Undersecretariat for Defence Industry (SSM) chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to AFP.