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HASC Members Introduce Bill to Prevent Turkey from Receiving F-35

By Vivienne Machi

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

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HASC Members Introduce Bill to Prevent Turkey from Receiving F-35

Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

Three members of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) this week introduced a new bill designed to limit the transfer of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkey as long as it continues its plans to procure the Russian-made S-400 weapon system. Reps. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), John Garamendi (D-Calif.) and Paul Cook (R-Calif.) introduced the “Protecting NATO Skies Act of 2019,” a companion bill to a Senate bill with the same name introduced in March by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.),…

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