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Business Insider Australia
April 25, 2018
Russia said Wednesday it would send the S-300 advanced missile defence systems to Syria in an effort to bolster defences after repeated US missile strikes. ... a geopolitical consulting firm, told Business Insider, adding that the system has a “general capability against all kinds of targets, but cruise missilesÃâà...
INSIDER
April 25, 2018
According to Kommersant's report, Russia will not be selling Assad the S-300 system, but rather providing it at no cost as part of a military aid package in order to hasten the delivery. The Russian-made system, made up of radar arrays and missile launchers, offers long-range protection against both fighter jets and missiles.
Sputnik International
April 25, 2018
Each S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble) can operate in various modes with up to 11 other missile systems, even if they are of different ... The S-300 launching system vertically "spits out" its missiles to a height of 50 meters and only then do the rocket engines start and propel it in the necessaryÃâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Russia had not yet decided whether it would deliver advanced S-300 missile systems to Syria, but would not make a secret of the matter if it took such a decision, the TASS news agency reported. "We'll have to wait to see what specific decisions theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 23, 2018
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow has not yet made a decision on whether to deliver advanced S-300 missile systems to Syria. "We'll have to wait to see what specific decisions the Russian leadership and representatives of Syria will take," Lavrov said on April 23 during a visit to Beijing.
Haaretz
April 23, 2018
A week ago after the attack, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi, head of the Russian General Staff's Main Operations Directorate, said Russia was reconsidering supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria and other countries. "A few years ago, taking into account a pressing request from some of our WesternÃâà...
The Drive
April 21, 2018
After the U.S.-led missile strikes on Syrian regime chemical weapons sites, the Russian government responded with a number of vague and unspecified threats, including the suggestion it could reconsider selling S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syria's dictator Bashar Al Assad. Now there is a reportÃâà...
The Daily Star
April 20, 2018
Russian air defense system missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia, Aug. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File). RSS; Follow; Email; Print; Share. David WainerHenry Meyer| Bloomberg. you've reached aÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 20, 2018
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has suggested that Moscow might supply high-precision S-300 air-defense missiles to its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of Western air strikes. In an interview with state news agency RIA published on April 20, Lavrov said that Russia had refrainedÃâà...
CNBC
April 14, 2018
Moscow may consider supplying S-300 surface to-air missile systems to Syria and "other countries", Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi told a televised briefing on Saturday. Russia had "refused" supplying those missiles to Syria a few years ago, he added, "taking into account the pressing request of some ofÃâà...
The Interpreter
March 16, 2018
A good example is its relationship with Tehran, where in 2007 Russia signed a contract with Iran to deliver S-300 missiles but delayed the actual delivery for almost 10 years. The reason was that Moscow did not want to irritate Washington and other players. After 2014, with the Ukraine crisis and increasingÃâà...
Caspian News
March 15, 2018
The S-300 is an antiaircraft surface-to-air missile system capable of destroying radar surveillance and guidance aircraft, planes using stealth technology, reconnaissance and strike complexes, medium-range ballistic missiles, as well as tactical and cruise missiles. The system can detect 20 targetsÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 13, 2018
Russia's constant delay in completing the Bushehr nuclear power plant and delivering the S-300 missile defense to Tehran are among these issues. However, despite long delays, the Russians eventually did fulfill their commitments. Even during the nuclear talks, there were many reports and muchÃâà...
Newsweek
March 13, 2018
The S-400 system, with the NATO codename SA-21 Growler, is made up of four different missiles with varying ranges, and entered service in 2007. It can destroy aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, and can also be used against ground targets. The longest range missile, which travels at Mach 15Ãâà...
Newsweek
March 6, 2018
The An-26 is a Soviet-made twin-engine turboprop jet first developed in 1969 and is used by the Russian government for short-range flights. 03_06_Syria_airfield A Russian Kamov helicopter flies near a S-300 missile system at the Khmeimim air base in Latakia province, in northwest Syria, on SeptemberÃâà...
Economic Times
March 4, 2018
In 2016, India and Russia had signed an agreement on 'Triumf' interceptor-based missile system which can destroy incoming hostile aircraft, missiles and even drones at ranges of up to 400 km. S-400 is known as Russia's ... The S-400 is an upgraded version of the S-300 systems. The missile system isÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 2, 2018
Russia's troubled munitions industry did deals with weapons-hungry Iran, including the sale of S-300 surface-to-air missiles. But Russia was slow to deliver. The contract for Bushehr was struck in the mid-nineties, but the reactor didn't start running until 2013. The delivery of SAM missiles, negotiated in 2007Ãâà...
The Drive
February 26, 2018
To the west, the Russian's have deployed their own S-400 and S-300 batteries to their outposts in Syria. Yet the S-400 is ... But the reality is that it's uncertain if the U.S. would even allow Iraq to buy Patriot missile batteries, so the move toward Russia is likely also an effort to avoid that uncertainty altogether.
i-HLS
December 31, 1999
All signs show that the Russians are about to supply their S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria. This is raising the level of concern in Israel. The U.S.-led missile strikes on Syrian regime chemical weapon sites seem to open the way for the supply of the advanced missile systems to Syria. Some sourcesÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 31, 1999
Turkey points out that NATO allies did not pressure Greece to drop its S-300 purchase in previous year, though that deal came under during a much less antagonistic period in the West's ... Turkey has apparently made a deposit for the new missile system ahead of taking delivery of its first S-400 batteries.
