The United States can buy Russian air defense systems from Turkey S-400

The United States can buy from Turkey Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 Triumph. The corresponding proposal was submitted to the Senate of the US Congress, the newspaper Defense News reports. It is reported that this proposal was introduced by Republican Senator John Thune as an amendment to the draft military budget for fiscal year 2021. It is supposed that the USA will be able to redeem the Triumph SAM systems S-400 delivered by Russia to Turkey at the expense of the budget of the American ground forces. According to senators, this measure will allow Washington and Ankara to resolve the differences caused by the supply of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems and allow Turkey to continue its participation in the fifth-generation American fighter program. F-35 At the same time, the newspaper is skeptical about the likelihood of adopting this amendment. As reported news agency, within the contract signed by Turkey and Russia in 2017, Moscow delivered to Ankara four Triumph SAM system S-400 divisions. In this regard, the United States decided to exclude Turkey from participating in the F-35 project. Later, on June 8, 2020, the head of the Turkish defense industry secretariat, Ismail Demir, said that the supply of the second set of air defense systems S-400 from Russia was not excluded.