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To: Go Gordon

Back in 2006, Syria had S-300 systems to defend their airspace. The Israelis spoofed them successfully and destroyed the reactor site that had been built in NE Syria. The Russians have improved their software since then - that was a real nasty surprise.


8 posted on 11/27/2009 7:57:08 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

No, they didn’t. At the time the only modern SAMs (Pantsir-S1) in the Syrian inventory were short-range SAMs.


12 posted on 11/27/2009 9:11:48 PM PST by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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