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| Syria to share Russkie air-defense systems with Iran |
| 2007-05-23 |
| Syria has agreed to supply Iran with at least 10 out of 50 air-defense systems that Damascus is in the process of buying from Russia, Jane's Defense Weekly reported in this week's edition. Jane's quoted a source close to the deal as saying that while most of the Pantsyr-S1E systems were earmarked for Syrian Air Defense Command, "the end-user for 10 of the systems is Tehran." It said Iran would take delivery of them in late 2008. To reward Syria for its middleman role, it added, Tehran will part-finance Syria's Pantsyrs as well as paying for its own. Jane's said Syria struck a $730 million deal with Russia earlier this year for some 50 Pantsyr-S1E self-propelled short-range gun and missile air-defense systems. Its source said Moscow had not been officially notified of the reported Syrian arrangement with Tehran, which flowed from a November 2005 strategic accord between the two countries on military and technological cooperation. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #6 Putin & his 'comrades' in the Islamic Axis of pure Evil continue preparing for war. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2007-05-23 23:49 |
| #5 The only people more duplicitous than these mideast grifters are the Russian grifters. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-23 19:02 |
| #4 So... Syria regifts part of its purchase from the Russians years before taking delivery and this somehow means the Russians are not selling the equipment to Iran. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-05-23 09:05 |
| #3 Not much of a threat for F-16s dropping JDAMs and LGBs at 30,000 ft. Of more concern, Russia sold Iran a few S-300MPU systems. Expect more to come. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-05-23 08:48 |
| #2 Don't kid yourself. The Russians intend to sell their authoritarian "friends" any technology they can develop that they hope can be used against the US, to include nuclear proliferation. I know it sounds asinine, but they *prefer* dealing with dictatorships and tyrannies to dealing with liberal democracies, going all the way back to the days of the Tsars. By convoluted logic, they see them as less threatening. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-05-23 08:31 |
| #1 Uh. Sounds good to me. Cuz, they still can't see our stealth fighters and bombers with these contraptions, which should be able to take out the radar components, making them nothing better than ack, acks. |
| Posted by: Caesar Angavimp6523 2007-05-23 00:44 |