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2015-08-31 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran: Russia to deliver its S-300 missile system by year’s end

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Nice of Pootie to announce the timeline. This way, they can have a before and after comparison, if the Juice attack before the delivery. Or are the Juice working another angle, ala Stuxnet?

Posted by Bobby 2015-08-31 07:22|| 2015-08-31 07:22|| Front Page Top

Posted by 2015-08-31 07:31|| 2015-08-31 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 This must be what Obama meant with the open mike statement: "I will have more flexibility in my second term."

Posted by JohnQC 2015-08-31 10:04|| 2015-08-31 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 And when IAF goes through this system if it wasn't even there...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-31 10:09|| 2015-08-31 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 The ~~Soviet~~ Russian S-300 tech-support desk is gonna be flooded with angry phone calls in Farsi?

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-31 11:28|| 2015-08-31 11:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Is the S-300 any different from that supposedly oh-so-sophisticated air defense system they had in Syria that somehow went to sleep when the Juice bombed the Syrian nuke plant? I dunno, maybe Persians will have better luck, but Russians weapons in the hands of Arabs don't have a very happy track record.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-08-31 11:44|| 2015-08-31 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, the simple staff worked perfectly---IDF been using mortars & AA guns captured in 67/73 up into the 1980es. Computer using staff...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-31 11:53|| 2015-08-31 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Computer using staff...

I understand the Chinese gifted them with a copy of Windows 8.

Problem solved?

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-31 15:26|| 2015-08-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I understand the Chinese gifted them with a copy of Windows 8.

I blame Bill and Melinda.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-31 15:28|| 2015-08-31 15:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Is the S-300 any different from that supposedly oh-so-sophisticated air defense system they had in Syria that somehow went to sleep when the Juice bombed the Syrian nuke plant?

Has anyone with a real air force ever flown against the S-300 other than in game scenarios?

Story I heard was the Syrians had an old-skool Soviet-era integrated air defense. The IDF spoofed it by essentially injecting signals into it (rather than just drowning it in noise) and making it think there were an insane amount of targets or none.

The S-300 is much more modern and presumably less vulnerable to countermeasures, at least according to the marketing brochures. It may be that the Russians would be willing to part with some inside dope on the system in return for 'considerations'. That might depend on whether a bombed-out Iran makes a better client state than an Iran feeling its freshly minted nuclear oats.

Posted by SteveS 2015-08-31 18:41|| 2015-08-31 18:41|| Front Page Top

#11 All that is needed is a narrow avenue, a corridor. Make them turn the system on by spooking the crews with a series or array of unmanned aircraft, then take them out kinetically or electronically. These are proven strategies.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-31 19:09|| 2015-08-31 19:09|| Front Page Top

#12 The Rooshuns recently replaced an S-300 deployment with an S-400 brigade near Kamchatka, so I assume those missiles are the ones they are selling to Iran.

Posted by badanov 2015-08-31 19:32|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-08-31 19:32|| Front Page Top

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