Erdogan: Turkey Will Not Refuse To Buy Russian S-400

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Turkey will not back down in the matter of purchasing Russian anti-aircraft S-400 missile system, whatever may say the United States, said the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an interview with TV station TGRT. “There will be no steps back in the issue of [buying from Russia] the S-400”, Erdogan said. “As for [U.S. Patriot Missile Defense System] Patriot, if the U.S. offers us good conditions, we are open to them”, he added. The U.S. may soon freeze preparations for the delivery of f-35 fighters to Turkey, officials told Reuters. This will be the strongest signal from Washington that Ankara cannot have both the F-35 and the Russian S-400 at the same time. As reported vestifinance.ru, many U.S. officials expressed concern that the Russian S-400 system would be incompatible with NATO systems used by Turkey’s Alliance partners. The S-400 missile system “Triumph” manufactured by the concern Almaz-Antey is designed to defeat aircraft, ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets and other means of air attack in the conditions of electronic and other types of counteraction. Turkey acquires four divisions of the S-400, the contract value is $ 2.5 billion. Russia will deliver the S-400 to Turkey by this autumn, said earlier the Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical (FSVTS) Dmitry Shugaev. Source: Vestifinance.ru