Russia plans to deliver S-400 missile system to Turkey in 2019, chief executive of Rostec Sergey Chemezov said in an interview to Washington Post.

“We have already started production, and we should start deliveries in 2019,” he noted.

Chemezov said he did not see a problem in selling the S-400 to a NATO ally.

“The S-400 is not an offensive system; it is a defensive system. We can sell it to Americans if they want to. So, there is really no issue from the strategic point of view,” Sergey Chemezov concluded.