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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Air Defense: Turks Buy Protection From Russian Weapons

"Turks Buy Protection From Russian Weapons

August 26, 2008: Turkey has spent $100 million to buy S-300V (SA-12), S-300 (SA-10) and Tor-M1 (SA-15) air defense systems from Ukraine and Belarus. The U.S. also did this in the 1990s, to develop electronic countermeasures against these systems. Turkey also wants to develop countermeasures, and sell hardware and software for this on the international market. The U.S. kept its countermeasures classified."

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