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Turkey Moving Toward Decision on Defenses

February 23, 2006 :: News

Turkey is moving toward a decision on purchasing surface-to-air missiles to protect against missile attack from Syria and Iran, and, reports The New Anatolian. The Defense Industry’s Executive Committee will convene tomorrow to discuss high-altitude missile threats and to decide whether an initiative for the procurement of anti-long range missiles is necessary. Among the systems to be discussed are the U.S. Patriot, Russian S-300, and Israeli Arrow-2 anti-missile systems. Turkey already has an air defense system for medium-altitude attack (10-50 km), including Hawk systems that could be extended to 75 km, and low-altitude attack (4-8 km), including Stinger and Rapier missile batteries. (Article)

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