{"id":194616,"date":"2008-09-06T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/06\/turkey-to-buy-russian-sams\/"},"modified":"2008-09-06T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:28:00","slug":"turkey-to-buy-russian-sams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/06\/turkey-to-buy-russian-sams\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to Buy Russian SAMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears ht they will be plunking down about $100 million for, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A9441f35c-b72a-4409-97a7-25f91e154613\"> SA 10 Grumble, SA-12b Giant and SA-15 Gauntlet missiles from Belarus and Ukraine<\/a>, so that they can practice counter measures against the Russian double digit SAMs.<\/p>\n<p>This is separate from the $4 billion bid they have out for long range SAMs for use by the military in operations, which has the US Patriot competing with the Chinese  HQ-9, Israeli Arrow, and Russian S-400.<\/p>\n<p>I love this quote from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States has raised concerns that if NATO-member Turkey were to purchase Russian missiles it would create an inter-operability problem with NATO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, I guess, US operators using Patriot missiles are more than capable of shooting down an RAF Tornado during the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>While all militaries support their national defense industries, the degree to which the US does is particularly whorish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears ht they will be plunking down about $100 million for, &#8220; SA 10 Grumble, SA-12b Giant and SA-15 Gauntlet missiles from Belarus and Ukraine, so that they can practice counter measures against the Russian double digit SAMs. This is separate from the $4 billion bid they have out for long range SAMs for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}