Russia has confirmed that the persistent rumour it is selling Iran a modern air-defence system is true, and it has the Israelis worried.
This is probably not disconnected to the news yesterday from the neo-con Washington Times that Israel is now shifting towards the ballistic missile option as opposed to an attempted air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The S-300 system is capable of tracking and striking multiple targets simultaneously.
It would be nice to think the Iranians could reverse-engineer the system and send some over to Gaza for the resistance, or then again just some better anti-tank weapons could do the trick and hand-held 'stinger-like' anti-aircraft weapons - used against the soviets to great effect in Afghanistan many years ago.
This is probably not disconnected to the news yesterday from the neo-con Washington Times that Israel is now shifting towards the ballistic missile option as opposed to an attempted air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The S-300 system is capable of tracking and striking multiple targets simultaneously.
It would be nice to think the Iranians could reverse-engineer the system and send some over to Gaza for the resistance, or then again just some better anti-tank weapons could do the trick and hand-held 'stinger-like' anti-aircraft weapons - used against the soviets to great effect in Afghanistan many years ago.
Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday that a top defense official confirmed Russia had indeed signed a contract to sell S-300 air-defense missiles to Iran, but that none of the weapons had been delivered.
Russian officials have consistently denied claims that it already provided some of the powerful missiles to Iran, and had not clarified whether a contract existed.
The state-run ITAR-Tass and RIA-Novosti news agencies, in addition to the independent Interfax, quoted an unnamed top official in the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service as saying Wednesday the contract had been signed two years ago. more
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