Turkey may back Russia anti-aircraft missile complexes (AAMS) s-400 due to the crisis caused by coronavirus infection COVID-19. As reported by “Free press”, said the founder of consulting company Strategic Macro Cribstone Michael Harris.
In 2017, as reported in the Rambler, Russia and Turkey signed a contract worth $ 2.5 billion for the supply of s-400. The first systems were delivered in 2019. In March 2020, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the deployment of s-400 will start in April.
On 20 April a senior Turkish official told Reuters that because of the situation with the spread of coronavirus infection the deployment of s-400 will be delayed, perhaps for several months.
Meanwhile, Harris admitted that soon Turkey may refuse from Russian SAM. According to him, in exchange, the United States can allocate the money Ankara, in which she needs due to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic coronavirus infection.
