Posted on 07/14/2008 12:52:41 PM PDT by edpc
Greece assisted the Israeli Air Force last month in more than just allowing the use of its airspace, The Cutting Edge news Website reported Monday.
Slideshow: Pictures of the week The Mediterranean country owns the same Russian radar, S-300, that Iran is soon to receive - or has already began receiving - from Moscow. Israel sees the S-300, which can simultaneously track hundreds of semi-stealth cruise missiles, long range missiles and aircraft, including airborne monitoring jets, as a significant threat to its entire airforce in the event of an attack on the Islamic Republic.
A massive air drill reportedly carried out by Israel in the first days of June over Greek airspace was publicized by The New York Times and generated powerful ripples, including warnings from Iran. But veteran investigative reporter Edwin Black writes in the Edge that a crucial aspect of the drill went unreported - Israel's trial run at defeating, jamming and circumventing the Russian system.
The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report.
After Iran complained to Greece about the Israeli air maneuvers, officials in Athens said their Russian-made radar-missile batteries were "turned off" during the exercise. The Iranians, according to Black, were not convinced that Greece would really compromise its air defenses during such a crucial exercise.
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S-300 is very potent system.
It is its range of 200-300 kilometers and possibility of simultaneous attack on several targets what makes him very dangerous.
Also low-flying is not of any good, it can track and attack targets at 20 meters altitude.
“an uninvited visitor from Missouri.”
Nah. they’d have had to report to senate committees, and it’d have been leaked by now.
Sir?
Where'd he go?
You’re overlooking the “special prerogatives” of the officer exchange program.
“officer exchange program.”
Joyrides in armed B2s?
So far, they have learned this:
An analysis of the plans has demonstrated a weakness. But the approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station. Only a precise hit will set off a chain reaction.
Israel routinely circumvents the Syrian air defense system. That they did it again when bombing that nuclear facility is to me nothing unusual.
Dale Brown...
Not sure how relevant, but here it is anyway;
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/how-israel-spoo.html
Then we shall fly at 19 meters! (with a nod to The 300). That's 60 feet, the Israelies could do it.
Can’t you just imagine?
“Tehran...we have a problem”
I hope they don’t always park them so close togther...
Are those pet names for Bashir on the nose?
“Israel dubbed its exercise “Glorious Spartan.” It is recalled that 300 glorious Spartans went down in history by forestalling the massive Persian army at a tiny land passage at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. The tiny Jewish State is now contemplating whether it must act unilaterally to forestall Iran’s nuclear threat.”
Actually, when translated, it reads, “Real plane, not PhotoShop like Iranian missile”
Or maybe I'm jaded from dealing with fighter pilots. ;)
God bless the men that fly and fight. I certainly have sense enough to stay on the ground.
I will, however, pat officers on the shoulder and send them into the wild blue. Beats the hell out of a ramp dropping on a beach.
/johnny
Negative.
The first sign an attack is underway is when Israeli drones get painted by Iranian Radars....which in turn get taken out by Israeli missiles.
The Mediterranean country owns the same Russian radar, S-300, that Iran is soon to receive - or has already began receiving - from Moscow. Israel sees the S-300, which can simultaneously track hundreds of semi-stealth cruise missiles, long range missiles and aircraft, including airborne monitoring jets, as a significant threat to its entire airforce in the event of an attack on the Islamic Republic. A massive air drill reportedly carried out by Israel in the first days of June over Greek airspace was publicized by The New York Times... But veteran investigative reporter Edwin Black writes in the Edge that a crucial aspect of the drill went unreported - Israel's trial run at defeating, jamming and circumventing the Russian system.
The minute those radars go blind, and the ones in Lebanon, the Iranians could “Launch on Warning”. It is a risk we, or Israel, will have to take.
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