Turkey ready to purchase a second batch of Russia S-400 air defense missile systems

According to information published by the Daily Sabah website on August 29, 2021, Turkey will purchase a second batch of Russian-made S-400 air defense missile systems. Turkey is very close to signing a new contract with the Russian defense industry.

According to information provided by Alexander Mikheev, the head of Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport,, Russia is in the process to sign a new with Turkey for the delivery of more S-400 air defense missile systems.

The first reports about the talks between Russia and Turkey on the deliveries of S-400 air defense missile systems emerged in November 2016. Russia confirmed in September 2017 that the $2.5 bln contract had been signed. Under the deal, Ankara will get a regimental set of S-400 air defense missile systems (two battalions).

In September 2017, Russia said that it had signed a contract worth 2.5 billion dollars with Turkey for the delivery of S-400 systems. The deal envisages partial technology transfer to the Turkish side. In November 2019, Russia has delivered the first batch of S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey.

The S-400 also nicknamed Trium, NATO code-named SA-21 Growler is an air defense missile system developed in the 1990s by Russia’s Almaz Central Design Bureau. It enters into service with the Russian army in 2007.

A battery of S-400 includes a multifunction radar, autonomous detection and targeting systems, anti-aircraft missile systems, launchers, and command and control center. The missile of the S-400 is able to destroy a wide range of aerial targets including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ballistic and cruise missile with a maximum range of 400 km and an altitude of up to 30 km. It can simultaneously engage 36 targets.