Syria, October 6 — Syrian ambassador to\u00a0Russia Riyad Haddad confirmed the deployment of the S-300 surface-to-air system in Syria, citing required [air defense] protection for Russian troops.<\/p>\n
In addition Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed\u00a0“let me repeat: both the S-300 and the S-400 are purely defensive armaments, which do not threaten anyone”.<\/p>\n
Our possible interpretation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n — The Russian S-300 and the S-400 SAMs (surface-to-air) armaments (built by the Russian defense contractor Almaz-Antey<\/a>) are considered to be the most advanced mobile “air-defense curtains” currently deployed in the world.<\/p>\n In terms of a game of chess, imagine two rooks staggered near each other in such a manner that no enemy\u00a0pieces can “pass” the kill zones illuminated by the rooks. In a somewhat similar fashion any number of S-300\/S-400 systems can be linked to create essentially “air kill zones”, even to high altitude stealth aircraft.<\/p>\n The system according to Russian foreign minister is for “defensive” purposes. Yes but last we were able to check, the ISIS\/ISIL forces are\u00a0not<\/em><\/strong> operating high altitude stealth bombers or reconnaissance, or for the matter of fact operating\u00a0any<\/em><\/strong> combat aviation assets in the area.<\/p>\n This leaves the US and the Coalition forces, including Turkey with combat aviation assets in the area. Perhaps this has nothing at all to do with the US-led coalition destruction of a Syrian army unit in middle of last month. Perhaps otherwise.<\/p>\n Although mobile SAMs are “defensive armaments” do keep in mind that it is always a good idea to move SAMs forward into the enemy territory just before opening a new incursion\u00a0front. (As an example see the October 6, 1973 Yom Kippur War).<\/p>\n Read both, full article at TASS<\/a>\u00a0Riyad Haddad, Sergey Lavrov<\/a> comments, DW (Syrian army bombed by US<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Syria, October 6 — Syrian ambassador to\u00a0Russia Riyad Haddad confirmed the deployment of the S-300 surface-to-air system in Syria, citing required [air defense] protection for Russian troops. In addition Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed\u00a0“let me repeat: both the S-300 and the S-400 are purely defensive armaments, which do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-military","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}