Iran: We've Produced Domestic Version Of S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missiles

Haaretz ^ | 30 Sept 2011 | Haaretz

[edpc]

Iran has completed the production of a self-made version of the Russian S-300 missile, the country's official news agency Press TV said, over a year after Moscow cancelled a delivery of the sophisticated system to Tehran to comply with United Nations sanctions.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev banned the delivery of the high-precision S-300 air defense system to Iran in September of 2010, scuttling a tentative deal in gestation for years, saying it would violate expanded UN sanctions imposed in June over Iran's defiance of demands to curb its nuclear program.

[edpc]

“The command and control center of this system is completely digital, sophisticated, and equipped with a simulator” and can receive signals, while functioning as part of a unified network of air defense to identify and track targets, [Brigadier General] Sabahifard said.

Let's see how this sophistcated, digital system handles Stuxnet II, or something like it.

[Abathar]

Considering the resources that a first world country has to invest in a successful design spanning many years, this tells me they were either:

(A) Given detailed schematics from Russia or China
(B) Had a few to reverse engineer
(C) They are full of s***.

To be honest all three sound so plausible I haven’t got a clue as to which might be right.

[Red Badger]

[Anti-Bubba182]

It’s BS. Iran is notorious for overstating their innovations in military technology.

[edpc]

It's probably a bit of all three. Iran claims to have obtained some of the system hardware through Belarus, though there are some questions about it.

China has provided Iran with a variant of their anti-ship missile and maybe other types of weapons, as well.

Iran, as pointed out by other Freepers, has a bit of a problem with the truth in all areas.....but especially with their military capabilities.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks edpc.

...over a year after Moscow cancelled a delivery of the sophisticated system to Tehran to comply with United Nations sanctions...

[SunkenCiv]

And in a totally unrelated story:

• Iran 'steals surface-to-air missiles from Libya'