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| Website: Croatia has sold S300 to Iran |
| 2008-09-15 |
| Croatia has recently sold advanced S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, a newspaper in Zagreb reported this week amid conflicting opinions in Israel over whether Teheran has obtained the advanced anti-aircraft system. According to the Web magazine Necenzurirano, Libyan Naval ships were also docking in the Croatian port city of Kraljevica to transfer the system to Iran. Israeli defense officials could not confirm the report but said that Croatia is known to have obtained a number of S-300 systems following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The system was reportedly dismantled several years ago although its exact fate was never publicized. The S-300, a Russian system, is one of the most advanced multi-target anti-aircraft missile systems in the world today and has a reported ability to track up to 100 targets simultaneously while engaging up to 12 at the same time. It has a range of about 200 kilometers and can hit targets at altitudes of 27,000 meters. Israeli officials have not said whether Iran has obtained S-300 systems but has called on Russia not to sell them to Teheran. A top IAF officer recently said that it was not yet clear whether Iran had the system. Ronen Bergman's The Secret War with Iran, published Tuesday in the US, repeats the claim made in the Hebrew version of the book, published last year, that the Iranians already have S-300s. "Iran has purchased an enormous number of anti-aircraft missiles from Russia, some of which, according to Mossad sources, are S-300 missiles, considered among the most advanced in the world. These missiles have been deployed around Bushehr and other strategic targets," Bergman writes. The author continues: "In August 2006, during the war in Lebanon, Israeli satellite photograph decipherers detected changes at several locations in Iran, suggesting strongly that Iran was stepping up its nuclear project. Moreover, many additional anti-aircraft missile batteries were deployed at nuclear sites, and existing ones were replaced with S-300 missiles... By September 2006, no fewer than 26 anti-aircraft missile batteries had been placed around the centrifuge installation at Natanz...." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 bullshit |
| Posted by: Ebbeamp Bourbon7949 2008-09-15 20:09 |
| #6 According to the Web magazine Necenzurirano, Libyan Naval ships were also docking in the Croatian port city of Kraljevica to transfer the system to Iran. It'd be a shame if something happened to those ships on the way to Iran. Maybe some Somalian pirates will go after them. Yeah. Somalian pirates. That's it. With torpedoes. It could happen. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-15 15:29 |
| #5 Or by nu-ku-lar missiles. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-09-15 05:03 |
| #4 All the super cool and expensive sounding missiles in the world aren't going to help much if the radar can't see the plane. Long live stealth! Or if they're blown to bits by cruise missiles. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-09-15 02:10 |
| #3 Another question : considering how friendly Croatia is towards the US (since we helped them drive the Serbs) Considering that in the Croatian pantheon the Ustahis are at the top and considering that the Ustachis were allied to the Nazis and shared their goals it is quite logical that they provide weapons to those want to wipe away the Jews. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-09-15 02:06 |
| #2 Another question : considering how friendly Croatia is towards the US (since we helped them drive the Serbs), what are the chances that the S-300 systems that they sold to Iran might have some interesting modifications, say to the targeting software? |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2008-09-15 01:55 |
| #1 Question -- is this the same system that Syria had when, in Sept, Irasia kinda sneaked in on them? |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-09-15 00:42 |