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| Report: U.S. buys Russian S-300 missile , arms dealer pissed |
| 2004-11-18 |
| From Geostrategy-Direct, requires subscription... The U.S. military secretly purchased a state-of-the art Russian aircraft and missile defense system through Croatia, according to Zagreb Vjesni newspaper. There is always someone that will sell something, for a price. The daily reported that the S-300 system was secretly transported to the United States this year, according to an arms dealer who sued over the loss of the $200 million system. D'oh! The Pentagon has a covert program to buy or acquire foreign weapons systems to learn their characteristics to develop countermeasures. The S-300 is used widely by the Russian military and also has been purchased and deployed by China near Taiwan. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #6 The fine print: ...buy or acquire... Bwahahahahahahaha! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-11-18 9:50:15 PM |
| #5 Hah! "USA, bitch!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-11-18 9:46:43 PM |
| #4 LOL! Looks like the US stiffed the Arms dealer. If true, find out who did this and put him in charge of CIA Foreign operations. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-11-18 8:35:05 PM |
| #3 so who's he suing? And the basis of his claim: "Wahhh"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-18 8:35:04 PM |
| #2 ZF---I am certain that that is part of the point. You can get an idea of the capabilities by talking to an operator. But you can only learn to effectively spoof if you have a working model to spoof, while checking all variables. |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2004-11-18 8:25:41 PM |
| #1 This must be a recent model. I'm sure there is no shortage of former S-300 operators here in America. I know a number of Russians who used to operate some pretty fancy stuff before their immigration papers came through. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-11-18 5:24:26 PM |