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Pentagon

U.S. Offer to Provide Turkey with Patriot System Officially Dead

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

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U.S. Offer to Provide Turkey with Patriot System Officially Dead

Patriot Air and Missile Defense System Radar Photo: Raytheon

An offer for Turkey to buy Patriot missile defense batteries has officially expired following the delivery of Russian-made S-400 air-to-air defense systems in July, one government official confirmed Aug. 22. The Defense and State Departments had hoped for Ankara to procure the Raytheon [RTN]-made system instead of the S-400, which defense officials have said is incompatible with Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that was, until this summer, built in part by Turkish manufacturers. While some officials had appeared…

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