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 by AFP Staff Writers Ankara (AFP) Feb 9, 2021
Turkey might be willing to not fully deploy the Russian air defence system whose purchase led to US sanctions, the defence minister said in comments published on Tuesday. The United States wants Turkey to decommission the S-400 missiles, which were originally built to target NATO hardware and acquired by Ankara in July 2019. Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told the Hurriyet daily that he was open to a compromise similar to the one Greece reached following its purchase of Russia's older S-300 defence system in 1997. Greece put the S-300s on the Greek island of Crete in 1999, after Turkey threatened to attack Cyprus. "We've said this before, whatever the model used for the S-300 on Crete, we're open to negotiating," Akar said. "It's not as if we'll always use them. These systems are used according to the state of threats. We will make decisions based on that," Akar said, when told by the paper that the Greek S-300s are "not always operational". Ankara's purchase has put extra strain on US-Turkey relations, which have also been complicated by the conflict in Syria. The US responded first by suspending Turkey's involvement in the F-35 fighter jet programme before hitting Turkey's military procurement agency with sanctions in December. Although Akar has urged dialogue to resolve the issue, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month said talks with Russia on a second batch of the missiles were set to continue.
Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Phase IIb Awards Washington DC (AFNS) Jan 25, 2021 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce award of Other Transaction Agreements (OTA) with L3Harris Technologies, Inc and Northrop Grumman Systems Cooporation for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program's Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration. Phase IIb will continue developing the capability to support Warfighter fire-control quality data requirements. This will result in Launch and Early Orbit Testing of HBTSS prototype satellites that demonstrate th ... read more
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