Eleventh Russian plane arrives in Turkey with more S-400 missile components
Turkey received more S-400 components on Tuesday with an eleventh Russian plane delivering the missile system at an airbase in capital Ankara, Turkish defence ministry said.
Since then Ankara and Washington have been at loggerheads with US saying S-400s are incompatible with NATO defence network and could compromise its F-35 fighter jets, an aircraft Turkey is helping build and planning to buy. Ankara has urged the formation of a commission to clarify any technical issues, but the US has not responded to this proposal.
Last month Turkey’s head of Defence Industries Directorate Ismail Demir said the US cannot unilaterally remove Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet programme. "No single country can say they don't want you and then remove you from the programme," he told reporters.Also in June, after meeting US President Donald Trump in Japan in June, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would be spared damaging US sanctions over the S-400 sale.
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