[edpc]

The plot thickens, if true. Israel found a way to circumvent the Syrian air defense system last year and wasted no time exploiting the advantage.

[JRandomFreeper]

Soviet crows are not as good as our old crows.

/johnny

[wolfcreek]

“S-300, which can simultaneously track hundreds of semi-stealth cruise missiles, long range missiles and aircraft”

And make the radar operator crap his pants.

[JimRed]

The first sign a conventional attack us underway is when the jamming starts. Israel should start jamming four or five times a week to fatigue the defensive crews.

Of course, it would be better if the first sign of an attack was when things started exploding...

[Bringbackthedraft]

S-300, which can simultaneously track hundreds of semi-stealth cruise missiles, long range missiles and aircraft .......................... Not a problem, if there is a way to beat it, the Joooz will figure it out. They’ll be in and out of there long before the Iranian radar operators can report the incursion. You can almost bet on it.

[theBuckwheat]

If the S-300 can “simultaneously track hundreds of semi-stealth cruise missiles, long range missiles and aircraft”, then I’m sure the approaching Jooos will make the necessary technical arrangements to make it thinks that is exactly what is happening. A ‘decoy-rich’ environment at the press of a button.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’m betting this is for Iran’s benefit. The IDF knows Sun Tsu better than anyone.

[ncfool]

Am Israel Chai!

[Perdogg]

Article in full

Greece has quietly assisted the Israeli Air Force in a previously unreported fashion as the dreaded decision of a possible Israeli preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities draws closer, this reporter has learned.

A pivotal factor in Israel’s military strategy against Iran’s nuclear installations is the recent delivery to Iran of Russia’s potent S-300 Russian ground-to-air radar systems. Considered one of the world’s most versatile radar-missile systems, Russia’s S-300 batteries can simultaneous track hundreds of semi-stealth cruise missiles, long range missiles and aircraft, including airborne monitoring jets. As many as ten intruders can be simultaneously engaged by the S-300’s mobile interceptor missile batteries, military sources say. As such, the S-300 is a major threat to the long-range weapons in the Israeli arsenal. These include Israel’s long-range 1,500 km. nuclear-capable Jericho IIB missiles; unmanned missile-equipped long-range drones; Israel’s F-16s, F-15Es; long range heavy-payload F151s and F161s; and even its three new Gulfstream G550 business jets boasting a range of 6,750 nautical miles, newly outfitted with nuclear-tracking electronics and designed to loiter over or near Iranian skies for hours. The S-300 can compromise everything Israel has.

But Greece has the same Russian S-300 system.

Originally purchased by Cyprus in 1998, the Cypriot installation provoked a storm of protracted protests by Turkey because the system would make vulnerable all Turkish air movements. To resolve tensions and prevent a Turkish preemptive attack on the installations, the S-300 by international agreement was moved to Crete for safekeeping, and eventually joint-Cypriot-Greek control based on the 1993 mutual defense pact between Cyprus and Greece. On December 20, 2007, the move and installation of the S-300 was quietly completed

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[ryan71]

Jamming is nice but it's better to throw a couple of HARMs at it.

No more radar.

[kronos77]

Iran posses no S-300.
my bet is that Israel will strike BEFORE Iran gets S-300

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.

[fso301]

Israel found a way to circumvent the Syrian air defense system last year and wasted no time exploiting the advantage.

Israel routinely circumvents the Syrian air defense system. That they did it again when bombing that nuclear facility is to me nothing unusual.

[PhilDragoo]