Turkey Defies US, Takes Delivery Of Russian S-400 Air Defense System Designed To Shoot Down ₦31b US F-35 Combat Aircrafts



Russian government has delivered the first batch of the ₦720 billion S-400 Air defense system to Turkey , a move that has brought tensions between the Turkish and U.S. governments to a new level.

The deliveries, which nullifies a massive contract for Turkey to buy US F-35 combat aircraft -- a plane the Russian-made S-400 is designed to shoot down, will almost certainly trigger additional U.S. sanctions.





The S-400, which can shoot down aircraft at a distance of up to 150 miles (240 km) and intercept ballistic missiles up to 38 miles away, will provide Turkish armed forces with an advanced weapon capable of covering most of Syria and their old adversary Greece.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who planned to buy 116 of the $85m (₦31billion) F-35 combat aircrafts from US, has said that excluding Turkey from the F-35 program would be "robbery" since they have already invested more than $1 billion (₦360 billion) in the consortium building it.

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Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44

Nice one, investing in security equipment is their utmost priority.

Everyone planning how to bring down US.

Rumours of war

Make dem no start any world war naija no safe at all

I thought I read this here? https://www.nairaland.com/5298193/turkey-takes-delivery-russian-s-400

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Everyone is already changing Turkish lira to foreign currency because of the usa hammer(sanctions) coming soon. No be small thing

sloye5:
Everyone is already changing Turkish lira to foreign currency because of the usa hammer(sanctions) coming soon. No be small thing

I hope they are changing it to Russian roubles. Lol

I don't why countries invest so much in missile and anti aircraft defense instead of investing more in offense. No matter how good these defense systems are, they will be overwhelmed in an out and out war with a serious adversary.

The cost of producing this defensive missiles is almost the same with the cost of producing offensive missiles. If you factor in the fact that the adversary may field in cheap dummy missiles to confuse these missiles defense systems so that they are wasted then it makes no economic sense.

Saintp:


I hope they are changing it to Russian roubles. Lol

Lol dollars