Relations between Ankara and Moscow become ever closer and now they are strengthened also on the military level. In fact, since 2020 Turkey is working to defend its airspace with the Russian anti-aircraft missile S-400 batteries that have the ability to shoot down any aircraft at 400 km away and are able to track up to 100 targets simultaneously and engage and shoot 32.
This certainly pushes even closer Turkey (NATO member) from the West and brings it closer to Russia - a paradox if we consider that in November of the 2015 the two countries were ready to go to war when two Turkish F16s knocked down an Su - Russian 24 that had penetrated the airspace for a few seconds.
The contract was signed and expects Ankara to disburse 2,5 billions of dollars for 4 S-400 systems, each of which consists of 1 vehicle command, two different radar types mounted on as many self-propelled vehicles and up to 8 launchers each able to shoot 4 rockets, plus a transport vehicle for the 112 reserve missiles.
The news sparked the ire of other NATO member countries. NATO has already made it known that it will not be able to integrate the Turkish S-400s in any way with the defense networks of the Atlantic Alliance to prevent the theft of information and secret data.
Among other things, Turkey will purchase the S-400s from the Russian defense giant "Almaz Antey", under US and EU sanctions because one of their missiles knocks down the flight of the Malaysian Airlines MH-17 over the skies of Ukraine on July 17, 2014 , killing the 283 people on board.