The U.S. administration was helplessly forced to watch as products from the U.S. military industrial complex were used to test Russian air defense systems.
As News Front reported earlier, having bought S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia, Turkey decided to try them out on American-made F-16 fighters. The tests were held from November 25 to 26. The results surpassed all Ankara’s expectations, although they caused a storm of indignation in Washington.
“It’s just like, sorry, climbing a checker with your bare heels. Of course he didn’t miss any targets. He found it 600 kilometers away and on the flight, 450-500 kilometers, he already had a counteraction”, – commented on the tests military expert Alexander Artamonov.
Foreign military sources also confirm that the S-400 detected the F-16 as soon as the aircraft entered the six hundred kilometer radar area of the missile system. Moreover, representatives of the Turkish Ministry of Defense and General Staff were pleasantly surprised that the S-400 could launch missiles to intercept the target before it entered the immediate kill zone. The fact is that Triumph is able to calculate the time of arrival of the target, acting ahead of time, leaving the enemy no chance. The results of the tests were immediately reported to the Turkish top leadership.
It is worth noting that for the United States, the success of these tests is a double strike. First, Washington failed to convince Ankara to abandon the use of Russian air defense systems, which seriously weakened the American authority. Secondly, in early autumn, the notorious US-made Patriot air defense systems could not intercept a group of drones that struck oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s key regional partners.