By putting top level anti air missile systems in Syria, Russia is drastically escalating the Syrian War into a regional conflict. The S300 has a range of 150 kilometers, giving a battery inside Syria the ability to shoot down Israels Airforce inside Israel. The computer systems can track 100 targets and attack 12 at the same time on each battery. This system is also capable of supressing Israels Arrow defensive missile systems. This system would hand Israel to Syria and the Jihadi on a silver platter, and enable a first strike capability for a one shot win of he Middle East Jihad.
Distance from Tel Aviv to Damascus - 133 miles. Well within range of a Merkava tank battalion. Pretty hard to track airborne targets when Israeli tanks are smashing your radar antennas.
No. Syria can't gas Israel with impunity because Israel and the US would respond to a WMD attack with a nuclear weapons strike from submarines, stealth bombers, artillery, or ballistic missiles. The SA-300 can't protect from all that. And if the A-rabs were so crazy and determined to destroy Israel that they are willing to have their own countries destroyed in a nuclear counter attack they would have done it a long time ago.
The only thing the SA-300 is good for is preventing the US/NATO and Israel from providing direct air support to the US taxpayer funded Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries that are attacking Syria. Since the Al Qaeda terrorist are getting their butts kicked by the Syrian Army the only thing that will save them now is direct intervention by the US/NATO and Israel.
Maybe if we weren’t threatening daily, to fly close air support for the Al Qeida loyal rebels, Assad wouldn’t find powerful SAMs to be such an important tool at this moment.
And just yesterday we have the jackass McCain visiting the islamists, sending the signal that a no fly zone is imminent.
Of course, that will mean a massive package of supporting strikes on airfields, AAA sites, airfields, etc etc.
note — Assad’s enemy is right now the AlQaeda syrian “rebels”
Israel would have to go nuclear, if what you are saying is true!
More like mutually assured destruction of the entire middle east, and deciding who else says “FIRE ZE MISSILES” possibly the entire world.
I know I can’t understand why someone would shoot first, knowing this. But I know there are people that would gladly do it.
As Alfred said “Some men just want to watch the world burn”.