This system can shoot down Israeli planes inside Israel. And my understanding is that it can track up to 100 targets at once. If this report is true, this war is about to escalate very quickly.
We heard the same thing about Iraq.
If that is the case, it worked just so swimmingly well for the Nuke Plant and most recently the weapons compound and the weapons convoy a day or two before that. Think is not a four letter word.
On paper.
This will more likely be used against Turkish aircraft, and a deterrence for any NATO moves. Assad would be an idiot to use them offensively and start a war when he is already overwhelmed with foreign terrorists.
Israel should be worried about them afterwards, but currently its not an issue to them because they don’t have a dog in this fight. Assad is the lesser evil of the two so he is their best choice.
Turkey on the other hand, along with the gulf arab countries who are arming and financing and transporting the terrorists to Syria do havea dog in this fight and Turkey has been showing signs that It might get involved at some point.
I think that is the angle Assad is using the s-300 for. Not everything is about Israel.
Is this the same system that Iran used to capture one of our untouchable drone aircraft?
I remember when an “inferior” Soviet AA system knocked down Gary Powers - and the crow the Soviets made US experts eat in public.