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Russia will send the first S-300 air defense missile system to Iran on Thursday, Russia's RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday quoting an unidentified source. The missile system will be delivered under the terms of an earlier contract.

RIA reported earlier on Wednesday that Russia will sign this year a contract with Iran to supply a batch of its Sukhoi Su-30SM multi-role fighter jets to the Islamic Republic. The report quoted a senior official at Russia's arms export agency as saying.

Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan is visiting Moscow this week. He met the Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, giving no further detail. Russia canceled a contract to deliver the S-300 advanced anti-missile rocket system to Iran in 2010 under pressure from the West following UN sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.

Tehran agreed to the deal on curbing its nuclear work in July last year and international sanctions were lifted in January. But tensions with Washington have remained high as Tehran continues to develop its military capabilities.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Ir...r-to-sell-Su-30SM-fighter-jets-to-Iran-445156

 

[DarkKyo]

Lol wasn't a Russian general just saying that other countries are trying to incite a new cold war?

 

[kruis]

Lol wasn't a Russian general just saying that other countries are trying to incite a new cold war?

The real cold war is between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

 

[Phantast2k]

Lol wasn't a Russian general just saying that other countries are trying to incite a new cold war?

It was their prime minister Medvedev.

It seems like Israel stopped giving a shit about this after Israel trained against Russian-made air defense system in Greece: sources | Reuters

"If you know all these details then you are perfectly fitted to replicate this same signal, which means you have a chance to imitate, to sort of bluff-echo" the S-300, he said.

"You can brutally jam it," he said. "You can take the signal and return it, and then you send another ping which imitates the same signal. So instead of one target, the radar operator sees three, five or 10 and he does not know where to fire."

Tal Inbar, senior scholar for the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies near Tel Aviv, said S-300s in areas where Israel operates or might want to operate would challenge its advanced, U.S.-backed military - but not insuperably so.

"In general, any system can be defeated this way or that. Some are harder and some are easier," he said. "The rule of thumb is that if your friends have a system that you are interested in, you can learn all kinds of things about it."

 

[B-B-Bomba!]

This is all reminding me of a game of CIV: loads of military units starting to concentrate in a region.

 

[andythinkpad]

Lol wasn't a Russian general just saying that other countries are trying to incite a new cold war?

To be fair, Russian would have sold S300 to anyone to make money including the Saudis. S300 is not S400, it's their older system.

 

[superdeluxe]

Lol wasn't a Russian general just saying that other countries are trying to incite a new cold war?

The Russian PM said the west was trying to start a Cold War.

 

[Akiraptor]

The real cold war is between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

This is correct. There will likely never be another Cold War between the US and Russia because capitalism won. Icy relations? Sure. Saber rattling? Absolutely. Teetering on the edge of nuclear annihilation? Not a chance.

Russia is attempting to increase their influence as a regional power. They no longer have the capacity to project significant power across the globe.