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2024-04-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russia's arms pact with Iran: Moscow pledges fighter jets and air defenses to Tehran including advanced missiles capable of shooting down US and Israeli stealth planes

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-16 03:52|| || Front Page|| [246 views ] Top

#1 Yeah Yuri, but can you have it here by Thursday?

Posted by ed in texas 2024-04-16 09:43|| 2024-04-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#2 "Advanced". Sure....

Posted by DarthVader 2024-04-16 10:10|| 2024-04-16 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't even shoot down deprecated systems like Storm Shadow or HIMARS.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-04-16 10:32|| 2024-04-16 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ You are going to trigger Dale's migraine...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-16 10:35|| 2024-04-16 10:35|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Can't even shoot down deprecated systems like Storm Shadow or HIMARS.

Russian AD has been routinely shooting down HIMAR rockets since May, 2022.

Posted by badanov 2024-04-16 11:22|| 2024-04-16 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like 8 x S300 batteries and 12 Bavar 373 batteries currently (figure 15 operational with 25% down for mx). That's supplemented by "many" Sayyad indigenously produced units. Russians keeping the 400 and 500 systems for themselves presumably.

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2024-04-16 11:30|| 2024-04-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "Weapons to Iran make it a far more formidable military in modern warfare."

Posted by mossomo 2024-04-16 13:00|| 2024-04-16 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 The same S-400s that can’t catch IAF bombers over Syria...

[begin Pedantic Nerd Mode]
Radar works by an emitter sending out radio pulses that bounces off the target and a receiver that detects the fainter returning pulses. From the timing and frequency of the returning pulse, the radar can calculate location and speed of the target.
An attacker can defeat the radar by sending a signal stronger than the returning pulse to blind the receiver, rather like shouting over someone trying to talk. This makes a bright fuzzy blob on the radar screen that hides the attack.
A clever attacker with some inside knowledge of how a particular radar works can send pulses with the correct timing and frequencies to make the radar think it is receiving signals from multiple inbound targets, none of which are real.
[End Pedantic Nerd Mode]

At the time of the festivities in question, there was some open source speculation that the Russians had given the Israelis a peak at the documentation for the Soviet-era air defense systems the Syrians were using. I have no way of knowing if this was true. Another possibility was that the Juice, being tricksy as hobbits, figured this out on their own. Whatever the real story, the Syrian air defenses were rendered ineffective.

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-16 17:22|| 2024-04-16 17:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Appears the schedule has....just been moved up a notch or two.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-16 18:09|| 2024-04-16 18:09|| Front Page Top

#10 HIMARS, pretty much, ain't done jack egesta in UKR.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-16 18:34|| 2024-04-16 18:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Another Old Crow!

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-16 19:58|| 2024-04-16 19:58|| Front Page Top

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