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The United States warned Turkey against moving ahead with plans to buy a sophisticated Russian missile defence system that the Pentagon believes would threaten its advanced F-35 fighter aircraft.
The State Department made the remarks on a day when the head of US European Command spoke to politicians on Capitol Hill and said Turkey should reconsider its plan to buy the S-400 from Russia this year.
"We've clearly warned Turkey that its potential acquisition of the S-400 will result in a reassessment of Turkey's participation in the F-35 programme, and risk other potential future arms transfers to Turkey," said deputy spokesman Robert Palladino on Tuesday.
The US agreed to sell 100 of its latest fifth-generation F-35 fighters to Turkey and has so far delivered two of the aircraft. But Congress last year ordered a delay in future deliveries.
[...] The S-400 can track a large number of potential targets, including stealth targets such as the US F-35 fighter jet. Other advantages included its high mobility, meaning it can be set up, fired and moved within minutes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:19AM
Communism's failing, whether ingrained in the form of governance, or caused by the people who rose to the top, is what killed it, not the ideals behind it (not unlike the US Constitution, its history to present, and particularly its erosion from the Drug War, Clipper Chip/Anti-Encryption, Columbine, and Patriot Act erosions to our freedoms.)
You can't stop stupid. The USSR fell to it, America may be falling to it, and if China's leadership continues on its current course, it may fall to it too. Assuming the Big Brother singularity doesn't strike first, in which case the plebs will stay forever shackled and unable to learn about nevermind make the moves necessary for organized dissent.