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| Turkey looking for a Missile Shield to protect Ankara, Istanbul |
| 2008-08-13 |
| Turkey plans to buy eight missile defense systems abroad to protect itself against possible missile attacks, an undersecretary for the Defense Ministry said on Monday. Murat Bayar said two missile shields are to be deployed in and around Ankara and Istanbul by 2010, and that Turkey is currently negotiating a deal with four countries: Russia, the United States, China and Israel. The cost of the Turkish air defense system has been put at $1 billion. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 What's the downside, #7 bj? ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-13 19:38 |
| #7 Russians are big time paranoid anyway. That would have them on medication. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-13 18:49 |
| #6 Maybe we should tweak that a little. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-13 18:48 |
| #5 So what happens when a bunch of these smaller countries get an effective missle defense? It seems to me that sopme of the ones feeling threatened and some of the ones who are threatening will change sides. Whole new ball game. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-08-13 16:32 |
| #4 They freak the russians out bigtime. So they can't be all that bad. Maybe that's the whole point of them. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-13 13:55 |
| #3 The short flight time combined with the ease of truck-bomb delivery just makes this seem silly to me. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-08-13 13:45 |
| #2 So, is an ABM system the price for the air corridors needed for US humanitarian flights to Georgia? Heh. Russia, wouldn't want to be ya. |
| Posted by: mrp 2008-08-13 13:13 |
| #1 Getting nervous about Iran... or Russia? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-08-13 12:50 |