Report: Russia sent Syria experts to upgrade air defense

haretz ^ | 02/10/2007 | By Haaretz Service

[Flavius]

The Times of London reported Tuesday that Russia has sent technicians to upgrade Syria's air defense system after Israeli electronic warfare systems allowed IAF warplanes to attack a target in Syria last month.

The Times account also said that the airborne electronic warfare system, which it said jammed the Russian-made radar and the Syrian army?s communications, was "believed to have been designed in readiness for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear sites."

[Flavius]

hope IDF gets a cut they are ramping up Ruskies revenue stream

[NonValueAdded]

Russia has studied the big consulting firms well. I wonder how much Syria is paying for this scope change? :)

[Flavius]

betcha they will pay any price

[Steely Tom]

You should have told us you wanted to detect Jewish airplanes! That requires an upgrade costing... let me consult my price sheet... ahh, yes. Ten billion American dollars. In advance please; I'm afraid I have very little "wiggle room" on this.

[John123]

Is it too late to change to Chinese hardware?

[waimea.man]

I hope we and/or Israel hit Iran before any upgrades are done, although it probably won’t make any difference.

[Joe Boucher]

Time for Isreal to target Syrias air defense systems (while the russiand are there working on them).

[Bringbackthedraft]

“believed to have been designed in readiness for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.” .......... Practice makes perfect!

[shield]

The pentagon and IDF are laughing....

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Pootie must have gotten a pretty angry phone call from a really ticked-off Assad over the quality of the Russian air defense system that Syria paid $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for and got nothing out of.

Too funny!

[Flavius]

i bet the IDF flew over his palace again sending him and his pride in two different directions

[Leisler]

Let us say you are a real smart, hard working Syrian engineer. Is there any way that you are going to sit and rot on top of a radar/missile site? If nothing happens, you rot for years. If something happens, you are smart enough to know that maybe the sneaky Jews have something. And, of course your NCO corps is just first rate, and you love your higher officers and, since everything breaks, wears down has bugs, the logistics train is on top of things like a sailor on a free hooker, right?

Nope, you are not going to do it. It would not be prudent.

So, Syrian batteries are broken, short parts, under trained, with weak NCO’s and lousy officers, all of whom are bored out of their minds and don’t trust their leaders, their underlings, their equipment or training.

[El Gato]

The Times of London reported Tuesday that Russia has sent technicians to upgrade Syria's air defense system after Israeli electronic warfare systems allowed IAF warplanes to attack a target in Syria last month.

Locking the barn door after the horses have gotten out.

...Chortle...

[El Gato]

Is it too late to change to Chinese hardware?

Maybe it was Chinese built hardware. They build many Russian/Soviet designs. Sort of like they build many US designed toys. Probably used lead based paint on the radomes. Probably used pirated version 0.9 of the software too. Russkies just putting it back to spec and upgrading the software to the version 4.0.4 software (which is still not the latest version of course).

[kinghorse]

I put bomb in Moose and Squirrel’s suitcase and who blows up? Me!

[txhurl]

lol bump

[Randy Larsen]

the logistics train is on top of things like a sailor on a free hooker, right?

I resemble that remark! Never found one!

[Humble Servant]

” Is it too late to change to Chinese hardware? “

Can’t. It’s all been recalled due to lead paint.

[Humble Servant]

” Is it too late to change to Chinese hardware? “

Can’t. It’s all been recalled due to lead paint.

[Tarpon]

Panic upgrade hmmm. I bet it doesn’t work any better than last time :^).

Since the attack never happened, what’s the big deal?