Turkey insists it will go ahead with the purchase of an advanced Russian S-400 air defence system. The first missiles and their associated radars could start to be delivered in July. The US is ...

Turkey's President Erdogan says he hopes a Russian missile system that Washington sees as a threat to US jets will be delivered in July. The US had said Turkey could not have both the S-400 anti ...

MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. The delivery of Russian S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey is scheduled to begin in July 2019, Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industries Ismail Demir wrote on ...

It was officially confirmed in 2017 that Russia and Turkey signed a contract on delivering S-400 missile systems to Ankara SOCHI, May 14. /TASS/. There are no delays in the implementation of the ...

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Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist focused on Middle East affairs. Turkey ended 2022 with a successful test-firing of its domestically-built Siper long-range air defense missile system against a ...

(Photo by BAYKAR/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) Turkey recently test-fired a domestically-produced air-launched ballistic missile from one of its homegrown Bayraktar Akinci drones ...