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To: zek157
Highly doubtful. The S-400 is not nearly as capable a defense system as the NeoSoviet Empire®'s propaganda machine claims.
72 posted on 09/23/2016 5:10:08 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

The current versions are - which is why India is buying them and South Korea is licensing the design. These are countries that could have bought Western AA systems and found the Russian ones better in testing. In the case of South Korea, they’re actually *dumbing it down* for their license built variant - they wanted a cheaper system and didn’t need the full capability of the all up S-400 but didn’t think the S-300 was good enough.

Unlike what happened in the recent Israeli strike that embarrassed the S-400’s maker, the ones the Russians brought to Syria aren’t the crippled export versions, they’re not being manned by Syrian trainees and they’re not being aired by Syrian idiots. Ivan is all done letting the Syrian government tell him where he can put his triple A.


93 posted on 09/23/2016 7:37:18 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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