According to Nova, the contract for the supply of Russian S-400s to Turkey is worth more than 2 billion dollars. This was stated by the general manager of the state company Rostekh, Sergej Cemezov. "The value of the S-400 deal with Turkey is more than $ 2 billion," said the company's general manager, according to the Russian news agency "Tass". The contract for the supply of air defense systems to Turkey was signed in September. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. It was reported that the Turkish side had partially paid for the S-400 Triumphs. The anti-aircraft missile system provided by Moscow to Turkey operates over the long range. The maximum attack distance is 250 kilometers, while the maximum height is 27 kilometers.
In recent days, the leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement (Mhp) Party Devlet Bahceli said that Turkey does not have to answer to the Atlantic Alliance for its purchases in the field of anti-missile defense. Bahceli thus rejected NATO's criticism of the purchase of the S-400 anti-missile defense system from Russia. "What was NATO doing when Turkey's national security was undermined by terrible attacks?" 'opposition. “We can buy weapons from anyone and we don't have to justify ourselves to NATO for this,” added Bahceli.
The Pentagon last July 31 sent a harsh message to Turkey, accusing it of buying the Russian defense system instead of investing in NATO technology. On that occasion, US Department of Defense spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the Pentagon was concerned about Turkey's purchase of Russian technology as it could conflict with equipment used by other Alliance members. Atlantic. "In general, it is a good idea for the Allies to purchase interoperable equipment," Davis said. The Pentagon spokesman noted that Washington wants partners to purchase materials within NATO partners and further invest in the Alliance.
A few days earlier, the spokesman for the Turkish presidency, Ibrahim Kalin, had emphasized that few questions remained to be clarified in order to formalize the contract for the supply of the Russian anti-missile system to Turkey. In an interview released in mid-July to the broadcaster "Trt Haberturk", the then Turkish Defense Minister, Fikri Isik (replaced last July 19 by Nurettin Canikli) stressed that the Ankara government was willing to buy the S- 400 to use them "in the short term", to then develop an "autochthonous" defense system with the collaboration of France and Italy. “All the technical work has been completed - added Isik - and we have reached the final decision to acquire the S-400 system from Russia”. Isik subsequently announced the signing of an agreement with the Italian-French consortium Eurosam to develop its own anti-missile system. At the beginning of June, however, the same Russian president, Vladimir Putin, during the international economic forum in St. Petersburg, said that Moscow was ready to sell the S-400 system to Turkey.
However, the fact that Ankara can actually acquire the system and integrate it with that of NATO weighs enormous unknowns, linked to possible serious consequences on a political and geostrategic level and to non-negligible problems from a technical point of view. Ankara would in fact be the first NATO country to acquire a Russian strategic system that cannot be integrated into the Alliance's missile defense network and with the acquisition of the S-400s it would be forced to make classified codes and information concerning missiles available to Russian technicians American, as well as other NATO systems, such as discovery radars, data transmission systems and so on, involved in the defensive network.