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2017-03-20 The Grand Turk

Turkey ready to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-20 07:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Putin appears to be fully recovered from the last year's assassination of Russian AMBO Andrey Karlov.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-20 08:21|| 2017-03-20 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm all for it. Easier to gather all the intel on it there.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-20 09:33|| 2017-03-20 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 S-400 works well in tests

someday, it may be tested in live fire - if it fails then there will be a lot of unhappy customers

Posted by lord garth 2017-03-20 11:09|| 2017-03-20 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Unhappy or dead lord garth?

Posted by AlanC 2017-03-20 13:03|| 2017-03-20 13:03|| Front Page Top

#5 AlanC

Embrace the magic of 'and'

Posted by lord garth 2017-03-20 14:06|| 2017-03-20 14:06|| Front Page Top

#6 buy...on a loan granted by Moscow

Soviets using the Turkey/Syrian border as a beta test site?

I note they are in a good position for observation by northbound polar orbiters with NRT ground station downlinks to Ukraine, Moscow, Kazan, et. al.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-20 15:30|| 2017-03-20 15:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The dead are rarely the ones who purchased the hardware.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-03-20 17:29|| 2017-03-20 17:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Unless they were taken out by Western planes because they bought shit hardware...

Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-20 20:06|| 2017-03-20 20:06|| Front Page Top

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