{"id":4631,"date":"2018-12-19T22:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2018-12-19T22:48:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:48:58","slug":"turkey-cleared-by-us-for-patriot-missile-deal-despite-s-400-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/19\/turkey-cleared-by-us-for-patriot-missile-deal-despite-s-400-row\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY CLEARED BY US FOR PATRIOT MISSILE DEAL DESPITE S-400 ROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-560x303.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/PATRIOT-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense News<\/p>\n<p>By Aaron Mehta<\/p>\n<p>Amid an ongoing row concerning Turkey\u2019s decision to buy a Russian air defense system, the U.S. State Department has cleared Ankara to purchase a package of Patriot systems, with an estimated price tag of $3.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, posted late Tuesday evening on the website of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, would cover the procurement of 80 Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced and 60 PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles, as well as associated equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has twice passed over the Patriot \u2014 in 2013 when it chose a Chinese system that it later dropped out of, and in 2017 when it said it finalized the S-400 deal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2018\/12\/19\/turkey-cleared-by-us-for-35-billion-patriot-missile-deal-despite-s-400-row\/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+DFN&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;fbclid=IwAR093WU_qipY3p_iNbLG6xeDyMl0GGIjYiQAOp6h2wiE5oMvI7FH0_D6cqE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense News By Aaron Mehta Amid an ongoing row concerning Turkey\u2019s decision to buy a Russian air defense system, the U.S. State Department has cleared Ankara to purchase a package of Patriot systems, with an estimated price tag of $3.5 billion. The announcement, posted late Tuesday evening on the website of the Defense Security&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/19\/turkey-cleared-by-us-for-patriot-missile-deal-despite-s-400-row\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TURKEY CLEARED BY US FOR PATRIOT MISSILE DEAL DESPITE S-400 ROW<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}