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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Fri Jul 1, 2016, 12:32 PM Jul 2016

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Iran's Russian-Made S-300 Systems to Become Operational by March 20

The Russian-made S-300 air defense systems delivered to Iran will become operational by late March 2017, local media reported Friday.

Middle East
15:25 01.07.2016

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, Commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base Brig. Gen. Farzad Esmaili said that the S-300 systems would be brought into operation by the end of the Iranian year, which ends on March 20, 2017.

The $900-million Russia-Iran contract to deliver five Russian S-300 systems to Iran was signed in 2007. It was suspended after the adoption of UN Security Council sanctions on Iran in mid-2010. In April 2015, Russia resumed talks on the S-300 deliveries following a framework agreement on the landmark deal ensuring the peaceful nature of Tehran’s nuclear program.

Russia and Iran are expected to fulfill the S-300 contracts in 2016, according to the Iranian military officials.

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160701/1042289181/iran-defense-su.html

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Iran's Russian-Made S-300 Systems to Become Operational by March 20 (Original Post) Purveyor Jul 2016 OP

Signed in 2007. That system is already obsolete. tonyt53 Jul 2016 #1

Indeed. More old 'soviet junk'... Purveyor Jul 2016 #2

Simple math is all that is needed to defeat these systems hack89 Jul 2016 #3

That is pretty much Iran's plan should they be forced to launch an Purveyor Jul 2016 #4

But that is a suicide attack hack89 Jul 2016 #5

Not likely after Iran and Russia enter into a security pact that would be Purveyor Jul 2016 #6

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

1. Signed in 2007. That system is already obsolete.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 12:36 PM

Jul 2016

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

2. Indeed. More old 'soviet junk'...

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 12:50 PM

Jul 2016

hack89

(39,171 posts)

3. Simple math is all that is needed to defeat these systems

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 05:27 PM

Jul 2016

1. Determine how many missiles each site can shoot at one time. We will call that number "x"

2. Fire x + 10 tomahawk cruise missiles at each site.

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

4. That is pretty much Iran's plan should they be forced to launch an

Reply to hack89 (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 06:23 PM

Jul 2016

attack on israel.

Overwhelm the defense systems with missiles and Iran has a lot of them...

hack89

(39,171 posts)

5. But that is a suicide attack

Reply to Purveyor (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 06:28 PM

Jul 2016

because the response would be a mushroom cloud over Tehran.

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

6. Not likely after Iran and Russia enter into a security pact that would be

Reply to hack89 (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 06:46 PM

Jul 2016

in place should shit get that serious.

Iran will not be the first to initiate the attack but the crazies currently running israel could.

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