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Russia lifts ban on delivering missile system to Iran | TheHill

Russia lifted its ban on the delivery of an anti-missile system to Iran just weeks after negotiators reached a framework agreement over Iran’s nuclear program, Reuters reported on Monday. The ban on the delivery of the S-300 system and other weapons has been in place since 2010, when the United Nations announced its own ban…

Russia lifted its ban on the delivery of an anti-missile system to Iran just weeks after negotiators reached a framework agreement over Iran’s nuclear program, Reuters reported on Monday.

The ban on the delivery of the S-300 system and other weapons has been in place since 2010, when the United Nations announced its own ban on selling arms to Iran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly signed off on lifting the ban on providing S-300 anti-missile rocket systems to Iran.

via Russia lifts ban on delivering missile system to Iran | TheHill.

There are a couple different variants of the S-300 system, some more capable than others. Still, even the most basic variant is an impressive anti-air system that is a more capable long range system than what the US is used to facing.

That d0esn’t mean the air defenses are impenetrable. It means that the costs in both resources required, and possible losses, is high than if a less robust system were in use.

Given that there are virtually no circumstances under which this administration might order air strikes into Iran* it is something of a moot point. The Israelis have no great desire to go there either.

 

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  1. ChrisP

    “Russia lifted its ban on the delivery of an anti-missile system to Iran”.
    I’m pretty damn sure that it’s primary use is anti-aircraft/cruise missile, not anti-IRBM/ICBM…

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  2. xbradtc

    Most variants are reported to have a respectable capability against short ranged ballistic missiles, similar to Patriot. The Army’s ATACM missile, for instance, which normally makes a dandy weapon for suppressing SAM sites, would be held at risk. In some ways, tactical ballistic missiles are an easier target, because they come above the radar horizon so far out, and have a generally predictable trajectory. Cruise missiles almost by definition use low level terrain masking, and are invisible until the range is very short.

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