RUSSIA SIGNS S-300 MISSILE CONTRACT
"Russia has signed a contract to supply Iran with sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missiles... the first batch could be delivered 18 months after Iran has specified the S-300 type that it wants... The $800m (£545m) contract, signed in 2007, was frozen by Russia in 2010 because of the international sanctions. President Vladimir Putin unfroze it in April... The S-300 can be used against multiple targets including jets, or to shoot down other missiles. The S-300B4 variant - delivered to the Russian armed forces last year - can shoot down any medium-range missile in the world today, flies at five times the speed of sound and has a range of 400km (248 miles)... the missiles could be used to protect Iranian nuclear sites from air strikes... a defensive weapon."
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Sunday, August 23, 2015
ISRAEL ALMOST ATTACKED IRAN THREE TIMES
"... former Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, revealed new details to his biographers about how close Israel came to striking Iran’s military facilities in 2010, 2011 and 2012... in 2010, the military chief of staff said Israel lacked the “operational capability”; in 2011, two key ministers waffled at the last minute; and in 2012, the timing did not work out because of a joint United States-Israel military exercise..."
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
RUSSIA LIFTS BAN ON SENDING S-300 ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM
"... Putin signed a decree lifting Russia's own
ban on the delivery of S-300 anti-missile rocket system to Iran... after
Moscow canceled a corresponding contract in 2010 under pressure from the
West... "
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/russia-iran-missiles_n_7053940.html
2007 BACKGROUND: S-300 MISSILES ADDED TO NUCLEAR SITE DEFENSES
"... (Iran) just signed a contract for the supply of
another Russian anti-air weapon, the highly sophisticated S-300, rated the most
effective killer of ballistic missiles on the market... Moscow has designed the
multi-layer air defense system to make Iran proof against Israel’s Air Force
and the ballistic missiles in its armory... the S-300 system uniquely
zaps high-flying, medium-range ballistic missiles of the type which is the
backbone of Israel’s surface missile units at a distance of 1-40 km. Together,
they lend Iran air superiority over any missiles and aircraft. Another of
S-300’s significant features is its advanced guidance method which relies on a
single phased array radar to trace missiles in the air. This reduces its
deployment time to five minutes; secondly, the missiles are sealed rounds and
require no maintenance over their lifetime..."
--DEBKAfile (Israel), December 26, 2007
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