{"id":281836,"date":"2016-10-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281836"},"modified":"2020-11-01T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T18:03:36","slug":"moscow-delivers-s-300-missile-system-to-syria-for-defense-of-russian-naval-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/moscow-delivers-s-300-missile-system-to-syria-for-defense-of-russian-naval-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow delivers S-300 missile system to Syria for defense of Russian naval base"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>The end of US\/Israel domination of the Middle East.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A battery of Russian S-300 air defense missile launchers has been transported to Syria, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Its sole purpose is to defend a Russian naval base and warships, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>The information about the S-300\u2019s deployment was confirmed by ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, the Syrian Arab Republic received an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. This system is designed to ensure the safety of the naval base in [Syrian city of] Tartus and ships located in the coastal area [in Syria]\u2026\u201d\u00a0he told the media.<\/p>\n<p>Konashenkov said it is unclear why the deployment of the missile system has created\u00a0such a fuss\u00a0in the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe S-300 is a purely defensive system and poses no threat,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that before the deployment of S-300, Russia had delivered Fort air defense missile systems to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after a report by Fox news that a Russian S-300 was deployed to Syria. The media cited three US officials who claimed that Moscow\u00a0\u201ccontinues to ramp up its military operations in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November 2015, Moscow deployed its newest S-400 air defense missile system to Khmeimim in Syria as part of a security boost following the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey near the border with that country. At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the S-400 systems are not targeting Russia&#8217;s partners,\u00a0\u201cwith whom we fight terrorists in Syria together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The S-400 is the most advanced anti-aircraft defense system in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/361586-russia-s300-supplied-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/361586-russia-s300-supplied-syria\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The end of US\/Israel domination of the Middle East. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}