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2010-08-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran claims to own S300 surface-to-air missiles

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Posted by Fred 2010-08-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 ION NORTH KOREA has repor also deployed SAMS [SA-10's] to near its border wid South Korea.

* JOONGANGDAILY > DMZ MOSQUITOES SPREADING MALARIA, to nearby SK Towns + Areas. The DPRK had stopped spraying due to nasty Post-CHEONAN chill in relations wid the ROK.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-05 00:16|| 2010-08-05 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 North Vietba=nam also had sams so what's your piont
. and they seemeed tooo workprtty well

Posted by chris 2010-08-05 00:25|| 2010-08-05 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, my bad, DPRK is deploying SA-5's wid a range of 250-kms, NOT SA-10's.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-05 00:53|| 2010-08-05 00:53|| Front Page Top

#4
Russia - which has sold other air-defense missiles, aircraft and other weapons to Iran - is in a difficult position in the international standoff with Iran, in part because it does not want to jeopardize decades of political and trade ties with the Islamic republic.

Still, Moscow has lately shown increasing frustration with Iran, and last month backed the new sanctions.

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/08/04/2029029/iran-claims-to-have-s-300-surface.html#ixzz0vhneFWHQ

Posted by Spearong Prince of the Bunions9034 2010-08-05 01:17|| 2010-08-05 01:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I still like the odds of a few hundred preprogrammed Herons getting through.

yes i do

Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-08-05 03:02|| 2010-08-05 03:02|| Front Page Top

#6
Four, count 'em four SAMs?

I think the IDF can handle that.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-08-05 06:37|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-08-05 06:37|| Front Page Top

#7 The scuttlebut is this is a bluff. Could be the Persians are looking to secure their ratlines. However, the silence on the rogue Belarus connection should give pause.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-08-05 09:45|| 2010-08-05 09:45|| Front Page Top

#8 At the risk of being yet another pedantic nerd, there's missiles and there's launchers. Sure, four S-300 SAMs will look really really cool in the Mohammed Day Parade, but without the whole radar/launcher/fire control mess all you got is a cool parade float and a scary press release.

Posted by SteveS 2010-08-05 14:07|| 2010-08-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

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