A contract has been signed to deliver a second regiment set of the S-400 air defense missile system to Turkey, with the production of some components to be localized there, Head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev told TASS on the sidelines of the Army 2022 international forum.
Shugayev said with confidence that in the next few years, any country was unlikely to design a system that could rival the S-400 Triumf missile systems. The contract with Turkey was currently being put into practice, he added.
Turkey became the first NATO country to buy S-400 air defense systems from Moscow in 2017. Ankara’s decision provoked a sharply negative reaction from the United States and the alliance as a whole. The United States hasn’t given up on its efforts to have Turkey get rid of the Russian missile batteries. As Turkey never gave in to this pressure, Washington excluded Ankara from its fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet program.