The US is cancelling delivery of equipment for its fighter jets to Turkey because of the country's plan to buy a missile defence system from Russia.
The US and NATO allies, which also own the jets, are worried that the Russian system will learn how to track and spot them, making them vulnerable in other parts of the world.
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