TASS:
MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Baghdad has not yet taken a final decision on purchases of Russian-made S-400 missile systems, Iraqi Ambassador to Russian Haidar Mansour Hadi said in an interview with TASS.
“We said we could buy S-400 systems, if need be. But no final decision has been taken so far. There have been no official talks with the Russian side either,” he said.
When Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari was on a visit in Moscow in February 2018, he said his country was looking at buying S-400 missile systems.
Russia’s S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) is the latest long-range antiaircraft missile system that went into service in 2007. It is designed to destroy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, including medium-range missiles, and surface targets. The system can hit aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) and tactical ballistic targets flying at a speed of 4.8 km/s (3 mi/s) at a distance of up to 60 kilometers (37 miles).
