Russia Furnished Iran With An Air Defense System

Russia Furnished Iran With An Air Defense System

During the Vietnam War, the Russians provided the Vietnamese coimmunists with a very powerful air defense system. In fact Russian troops manned many of the antiaircrat rocket and weapons sites. At the same time, Russian "volunteers" piloted a number of Vietnam vcommunist aircraft.Now Russia is doing the same for Iran.Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by early 2009 that could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defence sources said on Wednesday.The S-300 missile batteries have been deployed rapidly it only took six to 12 months for them to be deployed and become operable . Apossible reprieve for Israeli and American military planners is now gone, the US chickened out and kept a leash on Israel too. What does America get back for its 4 billion dollar handout a year to israel America has poured over 300 billion dollars of freebies into Israel in the past decade..Iran, which already has TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles from Russia, that an unspecified number of S-300s were deployed. But Moscow denied there was any such deal.Washington has led a desperately cowardly diplomatic drive to deny Iran access to nuclear technologies with bomb-making potential, AFTER Iran already has the technology.The most sophisticated version of the S-300 system can track 100 targets at once and fire on planes 120 km (75 miles) away.The S-300 -- is also known in the West as the SA-20.An Israeli defence official said Iran's contract with Russia required that the S-300s be delivered by the end of 2008. The official agreed with the assessments of independent experts that the S-300 would compound the challenges that Iran -- whose nuclear sites are numerous, distant, and fortified -- would already pose for any future air strike campaign by Israel.The wages of cowardice are death and slavery,