Turkey takes delivery of first F-35
Turkey takes delivery of its first F-35 at a ceremony in Texas in June 2018.
  • Romania is the latest NATO member to say it will buy the F-35 stealth fighter jet.
  • More alliance members are buying F-35s, but one of NATO's biggest militaries, Turkey, can't.
  • Turkey is barred from the program because it elected to buy a Russian-made air-defense system.

Here's a sign that the world has changed since the Cold War: A former Warsaw Pact nation is buying US stealth fighters and the country with the second-largest army in NATO is buying Russian anti-aircraft missiles.