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An Infographic Look At Russia's Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missile Defense System

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A few days ago, The Daily Mail reported that Moscow had deployed S-400 air defense systems to Latakia. Here was the "proof":

And here's some color from the article:

Vladimir Putin has deployed an advanced anti-aircraft missile defense system to Syria with a range capable of taking down jets as far away as Tel Aviv. 

 

The Russian military released photographs of the S-400 Air Defense System, known to NATO as SA-21 'Growler', at the Latakia Airbase on the Syrian coast.

 

The advanced missile system, which is understood to have a maximum range of 250 miles is capable of bringing down an aircraft at a maximum altitude of 90,000 feet - which is more than twice the height of a cruising passenger airliner.

 

Russian analyst Yury Barmin said on Twitter: 'Alleged S400 complex radar was spotted at the Russian air base in Latakia. Another "accidental" leak by Russia's MoD. 

 

'By deploying S400 to Latakia, Russia sends signal to Turkey and Israel but also creates a shield over Syria's coastal areas.'

 

The S-400 is also able to intercept cruise missiles and other potential airborne threats. 

 

It is also believed to be a major threat to military aircraft such as the RAF Tornado and the US Air Force F-15 and F-16.

The obvious implication there is that Russia has built up its capabilities at Latakia in order to threaten US, British, and now perhaps French fighter jets and maybe even to deter Israel from targeting Hezbollah.

On the one hand, it's not exactly like ISIS has an air force, but then again, do you really want to roll out your military hardware, build an airbase, and not have the capability to defend it when there are multiple nations (some of which are hostile) flying combat missions in the same country? 

In any event, the Russian Defense Ministry has denied reports that there are S-400s in Syria. Here's what Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told foreign reporters visiting the base: 

"You had the opportunity to see everything here with your own eyes…There are no S-400s here, and never have been.

 

Before attempting to scare the British public and the world with the deployment of our S-400 air defense system here, they should have consulted Wikipedia or the site of the Russian defense ministry as to how this system looks like."

Well, because we'd hate for readers to get a similar scolding from Konashenkov, we present the following infographic which should tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the S-400:

 

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Sun, 11/15/2015 - 22:54 | 6798155 Freddie
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The Russian stuff is very good but I want to see them use it.   Defend Syrian airspace.  You were invited in and ZATO wasn't.

Start by greasing those French Rafale.

 

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:16 | 6798214 gladius17
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Our boys will get a taste of it soon enough.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:24 | 6798227 SafelyGraze
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the important point to remember is that the "air defense system" has been patented by american corporations

meaning that any so-called "air defense system" that a foreign entity might attempt to build or to deploy would violate the existing patent rights

game over!

also, the very term "air defense system" is copyrighted.

that should put an end to any further discussion about so-called capabilities of foreign entities and their so-called you-know-what

safe.

secure.

patented.

sleep well.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:48 | 6798271 macholatte
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the important point to remember is that the "air defense system" has been patented by american corporations

 

Using technology given to the Chinese so they could make the parts designed by engineers in India.

Question: Imagine an aircraft carrier battle group; the carrier, the support ships, the destroyers, the subs, the aircraft, etc.  How many TV type displays & monitors do you think they use for all the radars and entertainment and avionics and the computers etc, etc?  How many of those monitors/displays are made in the USA?

NONE.

Globalism. It's what's for breakfast.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:53 | 6798306 macholatte
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Curious: Did the Frogs get permission from the Ruskies to fly over Syria to bomb some tents?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:53 | 6798427 Boris Alatovkrap
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40V6MR is variant of suterranean missile deployment system. Instead of fire intercontinental upper atmosphere trajectory, idea is simple, fire deep into ground and missile is hope come out other side on Amerikansky. Still is in testing stage of development but is very much promising.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:04 | 6798693 Canadian Dirtlump
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Hi Boris, I hope you're well.

This talk about deployment of S-400s is largely bullshit as you probably know. There is plenty of evidence that Syria has at least the S-300 systems deployed for surface to air needs, as well as still potent earlier models. Meanwhile they likely have at least the oniks p-800 systems for anti ship needs. Let us not forget that theoretically, the terror squads attacking Syria should not have an airforce or a navy.

Sumtotal? More than likely, Syria has long since had what they needed to defend the motherland. Despite the disparate incursions into their airspace, they have exercised restraint by not lighting up their anti aircraft defenses.

If what we are fed, that this "civil war" is made up of a variety of varying factions, is true, then anti air and anti ship systems should be useless. However.. since Russian bombing has imperiled the existance of all radical and moderate foreign opposition in under 2 months, one would think that this anti russian hysteria comes as propaganda. Disgusting.

While we see the migrants flooding Europe in the guise of an intelligence operation, let's realize that since the Russian bombing efforts, almost 1 million Syrians have gone home.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/615466/Vladimir-Putin-refugee-crisis...

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:59 | 6798748 BorisTheBlade
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Definitely not S-400, couple of radars and perhaps a command vehicle. Besides, what's the purpose of deploying anti-air s300 or s400 division next to the airfield, hit your own aircraft taking off? 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:12 | 6798354 onmail1
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patented bull shit , tpp ttip

American stuff is highly priced bull shit 

(same as potato chips, coca cola , levi, nike etc.)

Burn the american goods

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:55 | 6798436 Boris Alatovkrap
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Plus S-400 is dual purpose as latrine septic reservoir. Russian is both devious and practical.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:44 | 6798527 Kirk2NCC1701
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Is not also third purpose? As dildo for Madam Secretary?

I hear The Madam is big _unt. Maybe I is confuse Is with Has.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:56 | 6798441 Macon Richardson
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Who are "our boys"? Maybe your boys will, but I don't have any boys in that fight.*

cf. "What do you mean by "us", paleface?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:14 | 6798644 Zero Point
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I'd just fire 100 cruise missiles at it.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:36 | 6798259 junction
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As we all know, it took a decade or more to build the new Russain version of their S-300 missile system.  The Russians know what they are doing, among their first air attacks, according to their news releases, was an ISIS suicide vest factory.  World War III is now on and unfortunately, traitor-in-chief Obama is on the wrong side, supporting the Saudi headchoppers responsible for the 9/11 attacks. 

On a side note, the deindustrialization of America that started with NWO functionary Bush 39 continues apace. Apps do not protect you against ISIS rapist murderers backed by the Saudis, but S-400 missile systems do.  Just ask the Houthi Yemenis, who homes are being blown to bits by cluster munitions the U.S. sells the Saudis.   

The fight against global warming that justifies wrecking the U.S. coal industry, driving up energy costs for factories, is a dual edged smokescreen.  Bill Gates and his eugenicist ilk know that the massive plagues of 535 AD [Refer to the 2001 Secrets Of The Dead documentary "Catastrophe"]and 1348 AD happened because of global temperature drops that caused the rats that were the disease vector to escape the chill by moving into people's homes.  On a much smaller scale, cold weather also promotes the spread of the hantavirus in the American Southwest.

Under Obama and his demented neocon female advisors, the United States has become the enemy of Western civilization.  Which Putin knows all too well. 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:09 | 6798343 DeadFred
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To address some points I'd like to say that cluster bombs are banned so I'm SURE no one is using them including the Saudis. As far as Obama having female military advisors this is completely understandable. Obama tends to get light-headed and sometimes faints when around men in uniforms, uniforms or leather, either one. Female advisors are no problem though. Try to be fair please.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:33 | 6798519 BarkingCat
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Faints or is so aroused that he cannot concentrate.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 08:26 | 6798989 New_Meat
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blood flows from big head to little head-->unpredictable results

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:01 | 6798559 WernerHeisenberg
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<"Saudis responsible for 9/11" = controlled opposition

<"Saudis responsible for 9/11" = useful idiot

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:42 | 6798275 Justinx34
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has anyone started to realize ZeroHedge is pro RUSSIA!  ??????????????????

 

some of the news here is good info but there is a clear Bias going on here!

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:53 | 6798308 Baby Bladeface
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Sanity in foreign policy has a bias pro Russia.

Can be debiased if Western leaders develop an adhesion to sanity.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:12 | 6798349 Flybyknight
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Exactly. What is seen as Pro-Russia is actualy pro- humanity. The western politicians, media and millitary have fallen from grace. This became startlingly clear to me with the BBC's coverage of MH17.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:20 | 6798375 rapetrain
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Hahaha it's so depressing how such well-informed people can still fall for the good-guy bad-guy false dichotomy.

Just some things in the last few years: Russian apartment building bombings, Chechnya, Chechnya II, Grozny...

Russian Federation is the same scum as Wahingtoon. Worse, even. But the West is catching up so quickly..

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:34 | 6798401 Baby Bladeface
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So all to trust you on TV tell you?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 09:23 | 6799142 silvermail
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Lately I've been watching the new fashion: If a person stands on the positions of truth, morality, goodness, family values and justice, WH trolls always will announced him as "fan of Putin." LOL

***

Anecdote of the day:
U.S., Yale University professor in a huge audience reads students a lecture on civics:
"We have to promote in our country universal moral and ethical values. We need to educate society of people who can think, and be honest and decent."
Professor interrupts hysterical cry from the audience: "Stop! Stop immediately your pro-Putin propaganda!".

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:06 | 6798337 Blankone
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Have you noticed ZH tends to post articles that support what the zionist/NATO want you to believe.  Those groups want you to believe Russia is taking over the world, along with China, and that Russia is a threat to hit Israel.  They want you to believe Russia will fight the NATO forces.  Which supports their position that NATO needs to invade Syria and take over all of the eastern portion of the country.  And it supports their push to put even more missiles along the western border of Russia.

If those systems are there the US has satelite photos of them where you can read the numbers on the vehicles.  I think they would post them as evidence.  However, Russia is foolish not to have their best systems there.  And take notice that Putin never delivered the S-300 to Syria despite there being a legal contract between Russia and Syria to purchase and have those systems delivered.  Putin even fears a Russia system being used against NATO by any "allie".  He has not shown any indication of being willing to confront NATO.  All Putin wants is some of the western part of Syria. 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:09 | 6798575 ThirdWorldDude
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Re: Putin even fears a Russia system being used against NATO by any "allie".

Putin's 'fear' stems from his people-before-profit policy and his personal responsibility not to sell arms that are going to be used in an aggressive manner (which, btw, is a due diligence practice of all arms exporters not crazed by gluttony, i.e. Russia solely).

Too bad sycophantic sociopaths like yourself and the self-proclaimed Western "elites" lack the human trait of empathy so you can't grasp the scope of Russian actions...

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:49 | 6798619 Blankone
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Ok, that was rightously funny.  Really funny.  You forgot the sarc tag.

Yeah, there are not Russian made arms used for fighting.  No Ak's or anything.

Russia signed a legal contract to sell the systems to Syria.  And to Iran.  Then out of fear of angering the west refused to honor the contract. 

And of course now the Putin appologist claim that for Syria to fire upon those who bomb their country is acting in an "aggressive manner".

Is it crippling fear of the west or a mix of fear and greed?  Now is it a fear due to weakness?  Or a fear of a loss of profits due to the cost of a conflict with the west?  Or do Putin and the elites only have the goal of negotiating for a small portion of Syria's west area for themselves.  Trying to resist a little to obtain an negotiation for the split up of Syria.  (Negotiating away the country of an "allie" to other countries.)

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 07:55 | 6798913 SilverDOG
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The US is performing predictably, and Putin calmly waits.

Suicide is only exit for narcissistic power laden IDIOTS.

History rhymes again, deafeningly so.

Got gold?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 09:32 | 6799161 silvermail
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It is unfortunate that your words can not hear Saakashvili. Recently, he thought a lot about that Putin is afraid of NATO. And he very courageously ate his own tie with symbols of NATO, even forgetting about the TV cameras.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:07 | 6798341 fockewulf190
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Yeah, it´s been about as close to RT as your going to get as of late...including the active fan club.  Perhaps ABC Media is now on the payroll. 

I like ZH mostly for the financial stuff.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 10:26 | 6799382 silvermail
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What do you think of RT against Fox News?
Do you think that Faux News - is the source of pure truth? LOL

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 14:28 | 6800652 malek
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 about as close to RT as your going to get as of late

Wow, what a great unintended compliment!

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:31 | 6798396 besnook
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all people like decisive leadership. putin is a decisive leader who is protecting the world from zionazis. the usa is the zionazi proxy. this is globalization writ large. the world is threatened by the western zionazi regime. they are evil. the usa is, therefore, evil. as a citizen of the world. i hope putin saves the world from the evil scourge of the zionazis. i am global man. save the world, putin. take out our zionazi terrorist enemy wherever they are, including dc as a target.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 07:59 | 6798918 SilverDOG
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The Boomers could vote the Zionazis out of office, since they elected them.

Oh wait, I can hear it... But, but, but, but.....

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:20 | 6798498 Nexus789
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Smart people don't like lies and deceit. You might not like putin's policies but at least he says what he means. Unlike the perfidious west.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 08:13 | 6812578 SilverDOG
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Smart people do not like OTHER peoples lies and deceit.

fixed it.

Putin does not waste time in denial.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:25 | 6798654 roddy6667
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Why, yes. And what is your problem with this?
Maybe you should go to your synagogue and ask your rabbi.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:31 | 6798664 The central planners
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All msm is pro zionism and anti Russia. So you have plenty of options out there.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 05:48 | 6798789 Jack Oliver
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Everyone is PRO Russia - They stand in the way of the INSANE NEOCON AGENDA ! Fortunately for you Russia is COMPASSIONATE ! 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 10:05 | 6799283 Amraphel
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yes, so compassionate. maybe you could ask jehovah's witnesses and other minority religions just how much compassion or freedom of religion putinistan has.
go look in the jw.org newsroom to see for yourselves.

oh yeah, i forgot, you won't be able to because russia is the only country in the world to ban that website!

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 10:46 | 6799456 silvermail
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oh yeah, i forgot, obamostan is the only country in the world to arrest people at any time and even kill people without any investigation and trial!!

obamostan - the only country in the world where the most numerous profession called "imprisoned"!

obamostan - the only country in the world where police are killing people every day is much greater than the losses in the army!

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 05:48 | 6798790 Jack Oliver
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Everyone is PRO Russia - They stand in the way of the INSANE NEOCON AGENDA ! Fortunately for you Russia is COMPASSIONATE ! 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 10:10 | 6799306 SoDamnMad
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ZH helps reduce Russian unemployment by hiring so many trolls in St. Pete.  Their English is improving rapidly and they have the cliches down pat. 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 12:15 | 6799768 silvermail
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If you're right, that 98% of visitors to the ZH - it is paid trolls of Putin from St. Petersburg.
Socrates and Confucius did not know English at all.
But they were geniuses. Especially when we compared them IQ, with IQ of 2% of the number of idiots, who is WH trolls.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 22:57 | 6798160 JustObserving
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Sooner or later, some US, French, Turkish or Israeli jet will be shot down by the S-400 system.   We inch closer to a major war everyday.  

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:02 | 6798177 Freddie
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Why?  Russia was asked by Syria.  The others are violating Syrian airspace.  Assad and Putin need to tell them to stay out or you will be shot down.

The Russians need to start turning up their ECM, sat jamming and other stuff up to 11.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:22 | 6798203 JustObserving
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Since when have Western nations cared about what is right?  They will up the ante if any of their planes are shot down.  And a major war will get more likely.

Voltairenet is saying that the Russian airliner was brought down by problems with its automatic pilot system, not a bomb.  If sabotage, such sabotage can only be carried out by USA, Israel or the UK:

Airbus 321 in the Sinaï - only one hypothesis remains

Valentin Vasilescu demonstrates here the impossibility of the theory of a bomb placed in the plane. After having explored all hypotheses, there is now only one left – that of a failure in the software of the automatic pilot. We may therefore conclude that the accusations of the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the claim for responsibility by the Islamic Emirate, are propaganda. The crash was not a terrorist attack. But the problems in the automatic pilot system may be either an accident or the effect of sabotage by an extremely specialised secret service.

the team affirmed that no trace of explosive had been discovered in the débris of the plane, or on the articles of clothing and tissues recovered from the passengers. Thus, the hypothesis conveyed by British civil servants - according to which the crash of the Russian plane had been caused by an on-board bomb, on the basis of the so-called ’interception’ of a conversation between leaders of the Islamic Emirate – is proved to be false.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article189255.html

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:04 | 6798551 Kirk2NCC1701
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In that case, Merkel can kiss the Airbus deal with China (>100 A320's) "Tschuess, Auf Wiedersehen" and Bye-bye.

NO way that China can risk their Boeing or Airbus planes crashing, whenever they have VVIP people or engineers on board (think Malaysian Airlines). 

Note that this Useful Idiot Merkel has her phone bugged by the NSA, and is in the back pocket of Neocons -- which hardly makes her a credible person to offer tamper - proof electronics  from the West.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 08:08 | 6798945 SilverDOG
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For US, when republic became democracy.
NOW, it appears as though the majority, common population, is becoming sincerely disgruntled worldwide.

The only exception from worldwide, silent majority US.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:12 | 6798209 Francis Marx
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Dont need s-400 to shoot down a jet.  The s-300 still has a pretty good range. There is the BUK too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXScnEKaP0

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:52 | 6798304 Stuck on Zero
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These systems are incredibly vulnerable to anti-radiation missiles fired from stealth drones.  Likewise a tree-top hugging A-10 Warthog could come in lay waste to the whole area.  Oh, wait.  We got rid of the Warthogs because they were so effective.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:55 | 6798314 Baby Bladeface
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"

These systems are incredibly vulnerable to anti-radiation missiles fired from stealth drones."

True if this is 1995 year.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:22 | 6798378 rapetrain
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What's an anti-radiation missile?

I'm laughing so hard right now.

Pulse radiation from a nuclear detonation is good for frying electronics in lightly-shielded cruise & ballistic missiles. But your comment is a total miss.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:40 | 6798412 Baby Bladeface
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Can not resist the glow of idiocy in the comments.

Anti-radiation missile attempts to seek and destroy radars.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:44 | 6798421 Possible Impact
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anti-radiation missile (ARM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile

An anti-radiation missile (ARM) is a missile designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source. Typically, these are designed for use against an enemy radar, although jammersand even radios used for communications can also be targeted in this manner.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 07:08 | 6798557 Reptil
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THe S-400 has a secondairy system, which protects it from anti-radiation missiles, using a secondairy, specialized radar, and fast, short range missiles.
This wasn't developed in a vacuum, it's COMPETING with Iron Dome and Patriot systems.
You can bet the russians looked at the western technology when it was deployed (in Libya).
The A-10 Warthog comment is funny. It works against eightties soviet heavy tank divisions and those employed by for example Iraqs Saddam Hussein. It was successful because it shot Depleted Uranium shells. (Those contaminate the earth's environment with nano-sized, lethal uranium particles (alpha emitters. Thus making this planet uninhabitable practically forever. Bit by bit, tank by tank. Making me question the true intentions of those in control of the militairy industrial complex.) That was extremely relevant, more than twenty years ago. The A-10 has not been modernized. Instead, there's the "multi-role" F-35 and the F-22.
Good luck with that.

Anyway, the "future" of western militairy tech is in robots, the space corps (no joke) and directed energy weapons.
It would be interesting to see what the counterparts the world over have against those.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 07:11 | 6798845 StychoKiller
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So, some poor schmo calling his gal on a iPhone is gonna get lit up?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:14 | 6798583 Kirk2NCC1701
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Sorry, Stuck On Zero, but what "trees" or "terrain" do you speak  of, where these systems are deployed?  Did you miss the part that they can be used even against (ground-hugging) cruise missiles?

And how, pray tell are Wart Hogs or ANY planes and their ARM planes shoot at the radar, if the range of the S400 is far greater than that of the ARM?

Do you think that these people are that dumb, that they can't anticipate and front-run all these Old School tricks?

Or are you a Checkers player?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:38 | 6798729 mkkby
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The latest digital radars use a spread spectrum phase array that is undetectable by anti radiation missiles.  The old style radars are long obsolete... only in use by 3rd world countries.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 22:59 | 6798166 Francis Marx
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Yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnHUr0AqNOU

This is the thing.
US launches a missile and we get Sh'tty cell phone videos to see it.
Russia launches and we get top notch professional video.

Now tell me. In all of this saber rattling, who's winning the PR war?

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:43 | 6798279 Justinx34
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its called media propoganda and ZH is part of it - aka against USA and pro Russia - the founder is "russian"

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:58 | 6798321 Baby Bladeface
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So now American geographers place Bulgaria inside of Russia?

Exceptional.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:36 | 6798524 jaxville
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  The article illustrated a clear cut example of Western propaganda/misinformation.  Your perception of ZH being anti USA seems lame.

  If it were one story we could possibly dismiss it but similar articles seem to have become ubiquitous ifrom the mainstream media media. 

 

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:14 | 6798169 One And Only
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The picture looks nothing like what ZH has presented.

It looks like scaffolding.

This is irresponsible journalism and a very dangerous form of journalism. It's fodder for war with Russia.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:15 | 6798364 silverer
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Relax.  Russia probably submitted the article.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:17 | 6798212 Yen Cross
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 You can sorta see why the US and NATO are working on hypersonic technology.

 Those mobile launchers are pretty impressive. The Russians just want their adversaries to think they build antiquated heavy junk.

 I wonder if the United States is ever going to use the supposed next generation technology all the unwilling taxpayers have subsidized?

  Talk is CHEAP! Bitchez

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:21 | 6798220 One And Only
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Oh. You're a Northrop Grumman engineer? Tell us more about the technology aside from what we can find on wikipedia.

Are these missles designed to hit L.A or NYC? Do you feel threatened by Russia?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:40 | 6798413 cheech_wizard
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No, I'm never worried about a missile platform half way around the globe. I'm more concerned about both side's submarines.

Standard Disclaimer: Because a Russian nuclear-tipped cruise missile doesn't have that far to travel if it's launched off the coast (or Chesapeake Bay if it's more of a suicide mission). Then again, American subs have been up Russian rivers in the past as well.

Now you're thinking how does he know this? Because I've seen the photos of the Russian license plates taken from the periscope. And you get to read a lot of very interesting documents when you have double duty as the sub's yeoman.

 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:39 | 6798525 BlindMonkey
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If any of that is accurate your are a moron. It isn't called 'silent service' just because the subs are quiet. SS qual' d are also expected to keep their fucking mouth shut.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:02 | 6798691 cheech_wizard
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Were you trying to write you are a moron or you're a moron? Expected to keep my mouth shut? Where the fuck did you come up with that? Out of some twisted loyalty to the Military Industrial Complex?

http://www.submarinesailor.com/humor/TargetShip.htm

I actually served with this guy. Is he "keeping" his mouth shut? Actually I'll go a step further. I was there.

On the other hand, your life must be exceedingly dull. I  imagine picking lice off your fellow blind monkeys might possibly be the highlight of your day. That is when your not embarrassing yourself when trying to fling your own shit(ty life) at others.

Standard Disclaimer: Just promise me you'll go to some website that is more geared for someone with your mental acuity. I'd try the Huffington Post where they applaud blind monkeys...

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 21:20 | 6802411 BlindMonkey
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My bad on the grammar.  I stand corrected and thank you for the correction, you pedantic fuck.  I am SS qualified and I think you are a moron.  YNs are fucking useless BTW.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:33 | 6798398 silverer
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Yes, and spending tax dollars at hypersonic speed as well.  How the US and EU loses:  Can't pay its bills.  Loses reserve currency status, and the Chinese, Russians, etc.. decide not to lend the US any more money.  After all, why would they?  These hypersonic wonders will have a difficult time getting off the ground due to lack of funds, because those F-35's will need some damned expensive maintenance, etc.  In WWII, we were building 15,000 planes a month.  Now how many a month?  He who best controls his budget wins!

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:25 | 6798228 Bernanke'sDaddy
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How can I trade some Bernanke Bux for shares in Almaz Antey Design Bureau???

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:33 | 6798252 jimsoong25
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Proof?  Don't see it.  In front of the Su-24 are 3 radars.  The 2 on the left are old style.  The far left is probably a P-15 or more likely a P-19.  The middle radar is an older style height-finder.  These two pieces are very, very old (like 1970's).  The radar on the right is phased array.  It could be off of a S-300/-400.  It kind'a looks like the 96L6E in the graphic above (from behind).  I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be used in conjunction with the two on the left.  I don't see any missile launchers.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:42 | 6798276 bid the soldier...
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 a lot of decoys around the real stuff

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:18 | 6798370 silverer
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Isn't it amazing?  Recycle, re-use.  Waste not, want not.  Old becomes new.  Get your money's worth with this team.  Could be.  You never know.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:18 | 6798586 Reptil
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It doesn't matter, what's on the picture.
They will have some system in place to protect themselves from an attack.
Like the previous poster, I'm sure they are hiding their missile and radar systems. They've hidden their technology before. Suddenly the range of their SSM was multiples of highest expectations.
Then there's russian missile ships, in range of their base.
The ongoing proxy war is also fought in invisible, but deciding electronic warfare.
More important, they will not let a direct attack on their base go without retalliation.

Now, multiple sources say that the IDF hit fortified positions just outside the Damascus airport last week.
I don't know if that's true, it has not been confirmed (yet).

If the west lose their grip on the ISIS front entirely, they might do something stupid, in alliance with S-Arabia and/or Israël.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 07:00 | 6798731 Parrotile
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The one on the far left looks a lot like the P18 Flat-Face "B"; it may be "old" by Western standards, but it is quite capable, with a modest range (out to 150nm), and with the digital signal processing upgrades, a capability to track 50 targets simultaneously. All those still in service are now all-digital, and their main claim to fame is cheapness, reliability (MTBF 700 power-on hours, real field conditions) and a very modest power consumption (25kW or so). The height-finder looks like an 1RL132 Naklon unit (6GHz), whilst the phased array unit to the right appears to be a LEMZ 96L6E 3-D Aquisition radar - VERY modern C Band radar, with a reach out to 300nm; 100 simultaneous target track capability , VERY fast deployment (5 minutes from stopping the transporter), and can be interfaced with almost anything - cable, RF datalink, fibre, so it can work with the much "older" stuff, as well as with the latest tech.

Russia has put a LOT of effort into developing VERY good in-depth radar coverage, which is another reason why the Western idea of "poking the Bear" is rather silly.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:37 | 6798261 bid the soldier...
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You know what they say

Watch out!  He's a S-400 in S-300's clothing.

If Putin says that there are no S-400s in Syria -- and there are -- what does it mean when he says that the "atomic" torpedoes have not been deployed yet.

If a couple more 'false flags' against Russia are successful, and the Duma declares war on Washington, just drive north to Canada as fast as you can.

If you live on the coast drive in and then drive up.

 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:16 | 6798489 Omega_Man
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you are not allowed in canada - go away

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:05 | 6798571 bid the soldier...
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by the time you cross at Tiajuana, you'll be toasty

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:51 | 6798544 BarkingCat
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It will not help. Uncle Sam's pubic hair is intertwined with Canada's mustache.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:40 | 6798268 Louie the Dog
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Another ZH clickbait article.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 08:17 | 6798965 herkomilchen
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Yeah.  I'm down with the hot girls.  But featuring the killing power of government weapons doesn't get me off.

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 23:45 | 6798284 yogibear
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Plenty of Russian and Chinese engineers working for US and European defense contractors.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:00 | 6798326 FiatFapper
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Holy shit, it can intercept objects flying at mach 8 and 10 miles high...that's impressive.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:16 | 6798366 Yen Cross
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  The simple fact it that the United States can't afford conventional war.

  Instead of exploring the " high land" they chose to hold back technology, and use precious tax payer dollars for self preservation.

 These leaders are all wearing suicide vests, and have a way out. Temporarily. Siege always wins!

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:06 | 6798468 FiatFapper
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I'll repost a comment I made a while back, it's too prescient to be hidden. In the event of a nuclear attack, the first thing a government will do is disband and hand power over to local councils, they will then scurry away to their Cheyenne mountain hideout(s), like the rats they are.

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These are the best documentaries you'll ever see on the horrors of nuclear MAD; they explain the machinations of an attack.

 

Q.E.D. - A Guide To Armageddon - Nuclear War Documentary (1982)

Broadcast in 1982, A Guide to Armageddon was the eighth episode of the first season of the BBC science documentary series, Q.E.D., and demonstrates the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GJttnC8PoA

 

The War Game (1965)

The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism.

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/167578/The_War_Game_1965/

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:23 | 6798502 bid the soldier...
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But but but ...

 the United States can't afford conventional war.

They can't afford nuclear war either.

In the first place, rich Americans don't want a nuclear war that they can't win without any damage to the Homeland;

and in the second place, with Russia's 'accidental' announcement last week that they have developed or are developing (take your choice which you believe) a nuclear torpedo to travel up to 1000 ft below the surface right up to your rented cabana in East Hampton,

The Star Wars -- Patriot Missile Defense Shield has been proven for what it really is

 

       THE MAGINOT LINE

pardon me if I say  ha ha

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:05 | 6798566 joego1
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Obama can afford anything that he commands, "Yo, bitch Yellen, fetch the printing presses!"

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:08 | 6798572 joego1
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At least 3/5ths of the time they are used they annihilate the target, sometimes they miss and go where ever..... mileage may vary..

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:14 | 6798358 Atomizer
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Still the same cold war antics, run by the Banking Cartel.

Club-K Container Missile System 2013 - YouTube

How a Titan Nuclear Missile Launch Works

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:16 | 6798361 silverer
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So much for claims the F-15 will kick the PAK's ass.  It will never get there to even try.  Looks like these guys are working to button up a situation properly. Good thing Obama is going to try twice as hard.  Whatever that means.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 00:18 | 6798371 Yen Cross
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 History is important, but so is an undoctrinated man that's on a mission to set the record straight. ;-)

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:06 | 6798467 Omega_Man
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That's the S300, not the S400... get your facts straight!

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:13 | 6798643 Atomizer
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A lot has changed since 2013. We are approaching 2016. Product name rebranding happens every year. Ask the iDoits at Apple. 

We are sharing MIC information. 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:07 | 6798471 Omega_Man
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Doesn't matter if they are on land... they are on most of the ships in the port... same thing... air cover over 300 mile radius... 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:13 | 6798484 FiatFapper
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You can only imagine what they (Russia) have trawling the depths with their advanced submarine tech.

The US (and the west) have wasted money stomping around the Middle-East with their military might to appease their Saudi over-lords; they are the ones who call the shots. They must've cut a sweat deal with the US to supply cheap oil in return for archaic military hardware to give them the illusion of power.

Once they run out, they'll be swallowed up by the desert surrounded by skyscrapers with no tenants and fuck all tourism. Bestiality (goat sex) will be their primary source of GDP.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 01:27 | 6798511 joego1
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And so the chess game continues;

The Middle Game in Chess by Reuben Fine lists three major factors in the middlegame: king safety, force (material) and mobility, although not all of these factors are of equal importance. If king safety is a serious issue, a well-executed attack on the king can render other considerations, including material advantages, irrelevant.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:07 | 6798573 christofay
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We're supposed to be a democracy where if we lose the king it doesn't matter, we have 300 million potential kings, and probably several million of those potentials would be a better king than the present one

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:09 | 6798576 joego1
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Yeah, how come all our Kings are on talk shows??? Sounds fishy to me.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:44 | 6798675 Victor999
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key phrase - "supposed to be a democracy".  I would suggest that if yours is not really a democracy, your statement holds no water at all.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:06 | 6798697 cheech_wizard
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The United States is supposed to be a Republic, you fucking douchenozzle.

Standard Disclaimer: Let me guess, low curiosity level coupled with a disdain for history?

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 02:03 | 6798563 christofay
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Hey, that's the only indispensible nation Israel that is selling our trade secrets to the Chinese

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:01 | 6798633 Paracelsus
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I am sorta more interested in the Bundeswehr Patriot batteries which were recently removed

from Turkey.The Turks must have had concerns about some area threats to request assistance.This would've

happened a while ago.Now it seems that the Germans do not want to become embroiled as a good Nato

partner in an open ended conflict which is producing record refugee (Migrant?) movements.

It is probably unrelated but the endless financial dramas in Greece would look different with German SAM batteries

on Turkish soil.Those people detest each-other.The Greeks also have German equipment,Diesel electric

Subs so I have read...

I hope we are all here in six months.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 03:39 | 6798670 roddy6667
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Russia doesn't even need submarines any more. The Club K missile is fired from what looks like a container on a cargo ship, or a fishing boat, or a garbage scow.

http://www.military.com/video/guided-missiles/advanced-weapons/club-k-co...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M-54_Klub

 

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:08 | 6798699 kaboomnomic
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Heh.. heh.. heh... :-D

 

Dude Tyler, that photo is FAKES!!

http://russia-insider.com/en/military/russians-deny-s400-missiles-deploy...

 

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This is S-200 (the OLD Russian SAM's system. they don't use this type anymore)

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-S-200VE-Vega.html

 

See the Search & Targetting radar on the LEFT of those SAM system? That is an OLD RADAR. Russia right now? Either use PESA radar, or, AESA radar. That dinosaurus? Is an ANALOG CW/DOPPLER radar. The radar, that ANYBODY, can JAMMED it EASILY!! (That's why Russia is not using it anymore, other than for exercise purpose).

 

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Next? The CENTRE (Vertical Radar)? Is the OLD ALTITUDE FINDER radar. That also Russia NOT USING THAT TYPE OF RADAR ANYMORE (PESA/AESA radar can scan at MUCH FASTER rates, than those MECHANICAL radar!!)

 

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However, The Right Radar (Appropriately caled TOMBSTONE RADAR by Western Observer) DOES belongs to S-300 series radar. However, Russia DO NOT PAIRS THOSE TOMBSTONE RADAR to the OLD S-200 radar type!! (Tough they can still exchange radar lock data, alright).

 

So, by the above reason alone? That UK msm "propaganda news"? Already proofed to be FAKES!!

 

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However, i understand, not all ZH contributors knows electronics stuff. So, i can understand, they fall for this propaganda stuff.. ;-)

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 04:39 | 6798730 The Last Bubble
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Tyler,

That's all very interesting (pretty infographics too) but is it actually effective ?!

Truth is, you don't know, the Russians don't either as it has never been tested against a real full scale air-ground assault.

But good propadanda, keep up the good work. Long live Mother Russia !

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 05:21 | 6798767 Fireman
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It is not called an air defense system for nothing. But typically the Anglozionazi Empire of Chaos gets all bent out of shape because now they will no longer be able to wantonly attack an independent, sovereign state illegally and with impunity. I can't wait to see these babies bang a couple of those baby slaughtering zioschmucks the next time they try to sneak into Syria.

 

Onward to the end of the evil of zion.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 09:40 | 6799183 Jameson18
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You are correct so what do the Israelis do instead. Blow up airliners over the Sinai.

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 05:31 | 6798777 God is The Son
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S-400 aka (Zionist Plane Killer)

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