Topic: Iran announces successful test of $800m Russia-built air defence system (Read 2049 times)

The Chechens did not destroy the civilian population. This is the handiwork of Russian soldiers. Therefore, the West and supported in this war of the Chechens. The same methods of warfare by the Russians we now see in Syria and Ukraine.

Chechen war was probably the bloodiest war ever fought during the last 3 decades. Both the sides used horrendous methods for their own advantage, including massacre of civilians, rape and torture. A majority of those who died were white Christians (ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians.etc), but the Western nations were overwhelmingly favoring the Chechen Islamists.

Forrester,

you are grossly misinformed. Iraq was never armed with such air defense system. The rest of the analogies are wrong too, as Iran doesnt resemble Iraq in any way but the nominal faith of its citizens.

Yet, sadly, it illustrates that many westerners see Iran as "mortal enemy" even though that country never invaded any neighbour in the past two centuries.

Just my two cents.

You are right in saying that the S-300 is an old version. But it can become very useful for the Iranians. Already the Israelis have abandoned their plans for future airstrikes inside Iran, just because of the presence of these systems.

I believe the defence system is an archived Russian project that has been sold to the Iranians at a low cost, The two nations are forming an alliance with regards to what may happen very soon. Strengthened ties between the two will surely cause problems for Israel and the USA.

S400 is by its designation not meant to by the ultimate weapon, rather it is a tool that will prevent enemy air strikes to destroy infrastructure. And given all the attention of media and "experts", Id say it works.

In a case of total war the US would just nuke everyone down with a first strike.
And right now the balance of the MAD doctrine is not secured.


http://thebulletin.org/how-us-nuclear-force-modernization-undermining-strategic-stability-burst-height-compensating-super10578


Btw from all studies i read the s-400 is not the wonder machine most of the russians trolls want it to be.
The US has enough forces and the means to destroy russias c4isr infrastructure which would make most of russias defense useless.

The biggest problem is that russia doesnt own a space based radar program (or rather they just started one because they realised themself).

Almost the same thing happened in Chechnya. True, there planes did not fall.

I heard that it was the Ukrainian troops who shot down the Boeing, using the Buk anti-air missile. Didn't came as a surprise, as the Kiev regime has already killed many thousands of civilians in the Donbass using indiscriminate shelling.

It seems to me that the West has never supported Saddam. He was supported by Russia. The West supported Iran. This was clearly seen during the war of Iran with Iraq. Saddam fought the Russian weapons, and Iran is the us.

According to official statements of the U.S. government airliner was mistakenly identified by the cruiser "Vincennes" as an attacking Iranian warplane. Flight 655 was flying along the profile resembling the profile of the exit to attack the F-14A "Tomcat", consisting on arms of the air force of Iran. In addition, the aircraft took off from the airport of Bandar Abbas, which served not only commercial airport, but the airfield Iranian F-14.

According to the same reports, "Vincennes" 11 times tried to contact flight 655 on the radio but not got any response, With only 3 messages were sent in the civil frequency, the "Vincennes" when it is not used when the unique code of the Iranian plane that was obtained through facial recognition purposes.

At 10:24 IRST cruiser fired a missile "SM-2MR" "earth-air" are at this moment at a distance of about 20 kilometers unidentified aerial target. The missile hit the plane, causing it destroyed at least two parts and crashed into the sea. Only after contact with the plane was identified as a command cruiser of an Iranian airliner.

This version was presented in the report of Admiral William Fogarty (eng. Willian Fogarty), who led the official investigation into the incident. The report was declassified and published only in part: part one in 1988 and another in 1993. The findings outlined in the report, met a big wave of criticism.

The main cause of the incident in the official report named the psychological state of the team, "Vincennes", which operated in a combat situation under a lot of pressure, as well as the similarity of the flight profile of the liner with the alleged attack profile Iranian fighter.

In General, the us government considers the incident as a military incident and said that the crew of the cruiser had acted in accordance with the current circumstances. Later, the commander of the cruiser was awarded the order of "Legion of honor" for successful service in the period from 1987 to 1989.

Recently there was a case when in Ukraine, Russian troops shot down a civilian Boeing.