Turkey will receive S-400 Triumf missile systems in July 2019, Ismail Demir, head of the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) of Turkey wrote in Twitter.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the top-level Russia-Turkey Cooperation Council in Ankara that the implementation of the contract for supplies of Russian S-400 missile systems to Turkey is a priority task.

"We changed the date of delivery of the S-400 systems in the agreement for July 2019", Demir stated.

Russia’s S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) is the latest long-range antiaircraft missile system that went into service in 2007. It is designed to destroy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, including medium-range missiles, and surface targets. The system can hit aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) and tactical ballistic targets flying at a speed of 4.8 km/s (3 mi/s) at a distance of up to 60 kilometers (37 miles).

 

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