S-300 air defense systems already in Syria
 

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http://rt.com/news/air-defense-syria-assad-993/

The first batch of S-300 air defense complexes has arrived in Syria, President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon Al-Manar. Assad also said that Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries.

Assad revealed that the rest of the S-300 complexes previewed by a Russian-Syrian arms contract will be coming soon, reports RT Arabic (Rusiya Al Yaum), which has confirmed details of the exclusive interview to be broadcast on the Lebanese TV channel at 9pm local time (18:00 GMT) Thursday.

Great. Those can be among the first to be tomahawk'd.

Money well spent.

they dont look dangerous :1orglaugh

US war criminals will be invading soon

this could spin out of control quickly....

Now Israel can't bombing them anymore.

Israel said - 'Israel knows what to do' if Syria get the S-300s...

We will find out what that means soon I expect.....

From what I've read, they have no problem taking out Tomahawk missles.

dont worry usa will soon be on the ground massacring hundreds of thousands of innocent muslims....AGAIN

Don't think it will make much of a difference really. Having such a system and having the system be effective is two different things.

USA will do nothing, except help Assad where they can. The alternative to Assad is US-hating Muslims. It seems most people forget Assad is pro-USA, and most likely the best friend USA have in that region, except Israel.

Yeah, this isn't your garden-variety obselete surface to air missiles Russia usually ships out to the 3rd world. It's a modern weapons system, not current generation but the one right before that.

Besides shooting down cruise missiles (which wouldn't deter the US as they have 1000s) it also has a range of over 150 miles, so could easily threaten aircraft in Israel.

If I had to bet on it, I'd say Israel will wait until they're being assembled at launch sites and bomb them just before they become operational. Maybe some of the components have arrived in Syria, but with a system that complicated I doubt all the deliveries have been made. The real sticky point is that there are probably Russian personnel there overseeing their installation.

so the US is trying to set up a no fly zone

and russia is delivering anti air missile systems

hmm..

didnt Nostradomus predict the war to end all wars would start in the Middle east

Tomahawk is not a problem for S-300 :2 cents:

How exactly? S-300 is not intended to attack. This is a defense system.

Primarily, but also has offensive capabilities and can shoot down aircraft over 150 miles away. Not something Israel wants in their backyard.

Tomahawk'd = figure of speech. US has a vast array of weapons, I'm sure they know enough to choose one that is up for the task.

He didn't predict anything other than BS :2 cents:

Yes it is. Let's see how it will turn out. Israel already have such an experience when their civilian aircraft has been shot down by Ukrainian army with old S-200 system :2 cents:

:2 cents: :2 cents:

we don't know shit here, but I love to read comments on subject like this,here :). As far as I know, S-300 is in service back from 1979 (this must be some modernized version), but having it on soil and know how to use it properly in various scenarios is something that is completely different story. If I understood good, this is just new amount of batteries that were already there ( that is why we didn't see attack from air like in Libya, Iraq, Serbia) and it is now protected with Panzer systems so they are not easy targets. I am just wondering will there be official Russian crew onboard and what if Israeli's attack and kill some of them?

Also, Syria is not the only one getting them: http://inserbia.info/news/2013/05/mi...ive-to-serbia/

1 tomahawk missile costs $1 million

Taxpayers money well spent, indeed.

Remind me, what are we doing in Syria again?

This will clear their air

Russia wouldn't do shit if that happened.

Yeah, if operated properly, S-300 + Pantsir-S1 makes it almost invulnerable.



I really doubt Israeli will be able to do anything tho it without ground invasion :2 cents:

Actually it will. Have you heard anything about so-called 5-day war in Georgia (2008)? :2 cents:

1:42 ...is that windows popup dialogue ?

No idea, really.

OIL.. remember that black liquid??

Megiddo Isreal...the starting place for the "holy war" according to biblical prophecies....

Yep. What does it have to do with Russia not doing shit if Israel kills Russians in Syria?

could they really have gotten these systems packaged, shipped and delivered already and unnoticed?

why do you say that?

FYI: The war in Georgia has started when Georgian army has killed Russian peace keepers.

Israel got air to surface missiles with a range over 150-200 miles, so they can out range the S-300 easily.

OUT - easily, but not IN :1orglaugh

FYI CyberSEO: Israel is not Georgia.

What are the Russians going to do? Attack a nuclear armed country that hides behind the skirt of the world's most powerful nation?

Leaving aside the time they deliberately killed Americans in 1967, and were punished with billions in American taxpayers' money every year since, Israel has been deliberately killing different nationalities in UNIFIL for decades, one of the most recent examples being the attack in 2006 in their war against Hezbollah.

Israel does WTF it likes, wherever it likes, and nobody does shit about it. Russia, meanwhile, is a weak, pathetic joke; a virtually failed state.

Tomahawks probably cost more than those things.. lol

yeah, i'm gonna call shenanigans on this one.