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A little more on the S-300 Missile System

I kinda posted that post the other day before I was finished. Ace had a post up on some of the political aspects of it, and I wanted to get my post up on his sidebar. Because I wanted the traffic. I think I hit most of the actual high points of the system itself,…

I kinda posted that post the other day before I was finished. Ace had a post up on some of the political aspects of it, and I wanted to get my post up on his sidebar. Because I wanted the traffic. I think I hit most of the actual high points of the system itself, but there are a few other things worth noting.

First, the S-300P’s basic architecture and missile form the basis of the Russian Navy’s premiere shipboard Surface to Air Missile system, the S-300F, or as it is known by its NATO reporting name, the SA-N-6 Grumble. The SA-N-6 uses the earlier 5V55RM missile, rather than the newer, higher performance 48N6 missile. One Kirov class battlecruiser has the improved missile, but the other two are in mothballs and have not been upgraded. In addition to the Kirov’s, Slava class cruisers carry the Grumble.

News of the pending export of S-300P to Iran would leave you to believe that this is some new and unusual step. In fact, the S-300P family has been fairly widely exported, and licensed for production elsewhere.  In addition to widespread use in the former Warsaw Pact nations, it is used by Greece, Venezuela, and Egypt.

The largest export customer is China, who operate both large numbers of the S-300P system, and locally produce a slightly modified version as the HQ-9 series, as well as the HHQ-9 as the primary long range SAM for new construction surface warships.

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  1. ChrisP

    Perhaps I am mis-remembering (I’m an old fart, let it go!), but Syria had this, or a similar system when the Israelis destroyed the Syrian / Korean reactor.
    Along with the strike F-15s, there was a strange Gulfstream in the air.
    The Syrian defensive missile systems “went to sleep”.
    They saw nothing, NOTHING!
    /Sgt Schultz.

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  2. xbradtc

    Mabye…..

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  3. TrT

    True in it way, but, one of the standing tasks of Israeli special forces is (was) to cut the hard lines that linked the Syrian IADN.
    The Israelis knew the Syrian air defences inside out because the individual batteries spent so long talking to each other over radio, which was easy to listen and learn.

    When the Israelis went in, the Syrians were reduced to data sharing over VHF radio, in a code the Israelis had broken, and the Israelis broadcast a false picture to the isolated units.

    Doing that to Iran is a damned sight harder, unless you can base teams in Iraq, Kurdistan, Azerbaijan.

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