Turkey has started preliminary work on deploying ship-based armed and unarmed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the landing helicopter dock Anadolu instead of the F-35B short take-off/vertical landing variant of the Lightning Ⅱ Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), according to Ismail Demir, president of the Turkish Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB). In an interview with local news channel NTV on 8 June, Demir also said that delivery of Anadolu to the Turkish Naval Forces Command, planned by late 2020, may be delayed by three or four months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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