From Reliapundit at the Astute Bloggers:
US intelligence is concerned Moscow will supply the S-300 anti-aircraft-missile system to Iran if Washington pushes through NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine, the Telegraph reported Sunday.
The S-300 is one of the most advanced multi-target anti-aircraft-missile systems in the world today and has a reported ability to track up to 100 targets simultaneously while engaging up to 12 at the same time. It has a range of about 200 kilometers and can hit targets at altitudes of 27,000 meters.
Iran's acquisition of the system would vastly upgrade Iranian defenses against any air strike on its nuclear sites, Pentagon adviser Dan Goure was quoted by the British newspaper as saying. "This is a system that scares every Western air force," he added.
"If Teheran obtained the S-300, it would be a game-changer in military thinking for tackling Iran. That could be a catalyst for Israeli air attacks before it's operational," he said.
THIS WOULD BE A GAME-CHANGER.
HE WHO HESITATES IS LOST...
4 comments:
a reported ability to track up to 100 targets simultaneously while engaging up to 12 at the same time.
The S-300 has it's own imitations as noted above. It can be overwhelmed and taken out. I wouldn't be surprised if either Israel, US or Japan already have technology to electronically overwhelm such a device.
I wouldn't be surprised if that were true,
AND,
I wouldn't be surprised if Russia already knew that and still sells the shit to Iran.
Ha ha!
The S300 is what Syria was using last fall when the IAF took out the Syrian reactor.
S300 components are already there
The S400 MAY...that's' a big MAY be something to be concerned with.
The only thing that counts is if the Iranians figure out all the technical pratfalls and dead ends of spinning centrifuges at high rpms for days on end to separate U235 from U238 hexafluoride gas.
Once they get that down, they can just build a DEEPER HOLE, and the only solution left to the west is the complete decapitation of the mullah regime, and ENSURING they are replaced with something non genocidal.
Epa,
It seems to me the complete decapitation of the Iranian regime would be extremely difficult and would require a war way beyond Iraq.
Am I right?
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