{"id":104677,"date":"2018-09-25T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104677"},"modified":"2018-09-25T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:29:55","slug":"gamechanger-syria-to-receive-russian-s-300-air-defense-system-within-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104677","title":{"rendered":"GAMECHANGER: Syria to Receive Russian S-300 Air Defense System Within 2 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68804\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5ba8aba0dda4c8a2678b45ac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68804\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68804\" src=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5ba8aba0dda4c8a2678b45ac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: S-300 air defense system \u00a9 Uliana Solovyova \/ Sputnik<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Russia to supply S-300 to Syria within 2 weeks after Il-20 downing during Israeli raid \u2013 MoD<\/h2>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Within two weeks Russia will deliver to Damascus an S-300 air defense system, previously suspended on a request by Israel. It comes as part of response to the downing of a Russian Il-20 plane amid an Israeli air raid on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow accused Tel Aviv of failing to inform Russia about its impending attack on targets in Syria, which resulted in a downing of the Russian electronic warfare aircraft by Syrian return fire. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the defense ministry to take several measures in response to the incident, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russian MoD on measures they take in Syria after Il-20 downing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyUt0h1SUC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arguably, the most concerning thing for Israel will be the delivery to Syria of an S-300 anti-aircraft system, which will boost Syria\u2019s capabilities to deny Israel access to its airspace. The system was purchased by Damascus several years ago, but never delivered.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn 2013 on a request from the Israeli side we suspended the delivery to Syria of the S-300 system, which was ready to be sent with its Syrian crews trained to use it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe situation has changed, and not due to our fault.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The S-300 is a relatively modern system capable of engaging targets at the range of up to 250 km. Syria\u2019s current anti-aircraft systems are older models that didn\u2019t stop Israel from attacking targets on Syrian territory.<\/p>\n<h2>Integration with Russian systems<\/h2>\n<p>The Russian military will also supply better control systems to Syrian Air Defense Troops,<em>\u00a0\u201cwhich are only supplied to the Russian Armed Forces,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0defense chief Sergey Shoigu elaborated. This will allow integration of Syrian and Russian military assets, allowing the Syrian to have better targeting information.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe most important thing is that it will ensure identification of Russian aircraft by the Syrian air defense forces.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Potentially it would also expose Israeli aircraft tracked by Russian radar stations to Syrian fire.<\/p>\n<h2>Electronic warfare over Mediterranean<\/h2>\n<p>The third measure announced by the Russian defense ministry is a blanket of electronic countermeasures over Syrian coastline, which would<em>\u00a0\u201csuppress satellite navigation, onboard radar systems and communications of warplanes attacking targets on Syrian territory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shoigu said the measures are meant to\u00a0<em>\u201ccool down \u2018hotheads\u2019 and prevent misjudged actions posing a risk to our service members.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He added that if such a development fails to materialize, the Russian military\u00a0<em>\u201cwould act in accordance to the situation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development later in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that the Russian leadership made the decision to protect Russian aircraft in Syria from further friendly fire incidents and\u00a0<em>\u201cis not directed against third nations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Russian Il-20 plane with 15 people on board was shot down by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile over the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Latakia governorate. The Syrians fired in response to an Israeli air raid on its soil.<\/p>\n<p>Russia laid the blame for the downing on Israel, saying that the Israeli military failed to inform their Russian counterpart in time for the Il-20 to be moved to a safe area. They also said the Israelis may have deliberately used the Russian plane as a cover, expecting that the Syrians would not dare to fire at their F-16 fighter jets with the Russian plane nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis denied the allegations and said they took all proper precautions and didn\u2019t use the Il-20 as a cover. The explanations, however, failed to convince Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/439190-russia-il20-downing-reaction\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/439190-russia-il20-downing-reaction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}